Hey guys,
So I've been having some trouble lately with my comp. At first I thought it might be caused by the old and possibly corrupted hard drive I had my OS installed on but after replacing said drive the problem persists. Alright here's the issue. My computer has been freezing at what I might say random moments but it tends to occur when I am watching HD movies. I have 3 monitors and enjoy multitasking so I usually throw up a movie on one screen and do the rest of my computing on the others. Well, before when I ran a movie in Media Player Classic and then loaded a youtube video the comp would crash. This also happened when I loaded WoW. So I avoided YouTube and if I played WoW I had to do it without a movie. But then the problem started occuring when MPC wasn't even open, or when I was ONLY running MPC. This is when things got frustrating, because now I was getting limited to doing one thing safely. I have tried reinstalling windows several times to try and troubleshoot but I am at a loss. I have used MPC for years and never had this issue. (Oh and when I say freeze I mean the comp just freezes and won't come out of it. I have to hit the reset button.)
So I'm at a loss. The only thing I can think of it being is my motherboard or cpu. I'm leaning more towards my motherboard but I don't know enough about mobo's to be sure. I would blame it on software but I don't use anything unusual. MPC is pretty popular and I run Firefox.
Here's my setup
Mobo: GA-EP45-UD3R
CPU: Q6600
RAM: G.SKILL 4GB DDR2 1000
HDD: OS HDD: Seagate 80GB
Storage 1: WD 640GB
Storage 2: WD 1.5TB
GPU: 4850X2 2GB
Oh and nothing is OCed. I have optimized defaults loaded. Please let me know if you need anymore information I would love to be able to get my computer back in shape or figure out if I need to replace something. I WANT MY BABY BACK
Thanks guys,
Timm
So I've been having some trouble lately with my comp. At first I thought it might be caused by the old and possibly corrupted hard drive I had my OS installed on but after replacing said drive the problem persists. Alright here's the issue. My computer has been freezing at what I might say random moments but it tends to occur when I am watching HD movies. I have 3 monitors and enjoy multitasking so I usually throw up a movie on one screen and do the rest of my computing on the others. Well, before when I ran a movie in Media Player Classic and then loaded a youtube video the comp would crash. This also happened when I loaded WoW. So I avoided YouTube and if I played WoW I had to do it without a movie. But then the problem started occuring when MPC wasn't even open, or when I was ONLY running MPC. This is when things got frustrating, because now I was getting limited to doing one thing safely. I have tried reinstalling windows several times to try and troubleshoot but I am at a loss. I have used MPC for years and never had this issue. (Oh and when I say freeze I mean the comp just freezes and won't come out of it. I have to hit the reset button.)
So I'm at a loss. The only thing I can think of it being is my motherboard or cpu. I'm leaning more towards my motherboard but I don't know enough about mobo's to be sure. I would blame it on software but I don't use anything unusual. MPC is pretty popular and I run Firefox.
Here's my setup
Mobo: GA-EP45-UD3R
CPU: Q6600
RAM: G.SKILL 4GB DDR2 1000
HDD: OS HDD: Seagate 80GB
Storage 1: WD 640GB
Storage 2: WD 1.5TB
GPU: 4850X2 2GB
Oh and nothing is OCed. I have optimized defaults loaded. Please let me know if you need anymore information I would love to be able to get my computer back in shape or figure out if I need to replace something. I WANT MY BABY BACK
Thanks guys,
Timm