please help me with this weird freezing problem

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kevinf

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these past few nights i have noticed that my computer just locks up in screen saver mode with no error. i just notice my screensaver freezing. this computer has been pretty stable. i can play games and all at high settings with my 8800gts. sorry i can't give you more information though because i have never seen an error message with this nor could i find something in the event viewer. can somebody try to troubleshoot this for me. could i windows reinstallation be coming soon. i have tested my memory separately with memtest and it didn't give me any errors. whenever i check the event viewer it never tells me the error but only tells me that there was an unexpected shut down because i had to restart from the freeze.

edit: also i noticed that the hard drive led does not even blink one single time when it is frozen
 
Maybe you should change the screensaver that you have been using on your computer. Is this a default Windows one, or did you download a custom screensaver from a third party?
 
it is the mystify screensaver that is built in to windows. i have tried to disable screensaver completely but it still froze
 
You said this happens at a certain time, as in 12:00AM lets say; or does it happen after the PC is idle for a certain amount of time, ie: 1hr?
 
Another idea...
Are you clocking your PC and have Power Saving enabled?
If so, when the PC goes into power saving it can drop the voltage to the cpu as well as reduce its speed.
Thing is, it doesnt know that more voltage may be required for the new overclocked slow speed so this can cause a crash.

The cure is to reduce your overclock or turn off CPU power saving.
 
no it doesn't happen at a certain time anymore. now it just does it when i leave it idle long enough. also i didn't overclock the cpu and where would i find the cpu power saving settings.
 
kevinf said:
no it doesn't happen at a certain time anymore. now it just does it when i leave it idle long enough. also i didn't overclock the cpu and where would i find the cpu power saving settings.
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In the BIOS settings.
 
then i don't think that ithat is a problem because i have never messed with those before. could it be a hard drive problem.
 
kevinf said:
then i don't think that ithat is a problem because i have never messed with those before. could it be a hard drive problem.
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If you havent messed with them, you wont have turned it off.
 
i didn't turn anything on or off for any cpu power saving options. i just left it at default; the way it was when i got the motherboard
 
If power saving is part of the problem you may want to turn it off.
 
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