General Computer Problem (Wrong Thread?)

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I apologise in advance if this is in the wrong thread, but i have a pretty major issue concerning my PC.

A few days ago i bought Left 4 Dead 2. After playing for a day, everything running fine, i closed the game. The next day, I tried to play it again, and about 20-30 minutes into the game my computer completely froze, the sound made a repetitive buzzing noise and wouldn't stop unless I hard reset it via the reset button on my PC. This now happens on every game I play, steam and non-steam games. The freezing isn't in a pattern and happens randomly, it can be a few minutes or a few hours, there isn't any correlation.

I thought that it was a software issue (Steam) because it was occurring on Steam games, so i uninstalled steam and all of my games, reinstalled steam and reinstalled all of my steam games, but the problem still persisted. I uninstalled any software that may clash with steam (on this list: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289)
But the problem still occurred.

I've contemplated a heat issue, but it appears that my GPU was running at about ~50 Degrees C and my CPU at about ~55 Degrees C, so i don't think that is the problem. I've re-seated my RAM modules, but that didn't work either. I defragged, cleaned up the registry, installed the latest drivers for everything, but nothing.

If any of you could help, or if anyone's had this problem before, it would be much appreciated. If this is in the wrong thread then please do move it, but any help or advice is appreciated :-)
 
PC Specs:
AMD FX-4100 Bulldozer Quad Core 3.6GHz
8GB Corsair RAM 1033MHz
Nvidia GeForce GT 420 DDR3 1GB
Asus M5A78L-MLX Motherboard
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
D-Link Wi-Fi PCI Card
 
If it's happening all the time I'd suggest it was a hardware error. What Operating System are you running? Have you tryed running a memory check? All the latest drivers?



M.
 
m4cc45 said:
If it's happening all the time I'd suggest it was a hardware error. What Operating System are you running? Have you tryed running a memory check? All the latest drivers?



M.
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Hm yeah, I haven't tried a memory test. I'll obtain and try memtest86 tomorrow, but i've got all the latest drivers. And i run Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
 
You can do a memtest from Windows 7 which reboots it so that might be worth a go. Check all hardware is fitted correctly? I've had something similar which turned out to be a dodgy sound card but if it's onboard you could try disabling that and re-test.

Just hit start then type mem the one you're looking for is Windows Memory Diagnostic.


M.
 
It's either a corrupted Windows install or hardware. Personally I'd say it was hardware - easiest thing is to start with a Mem check and work from there.



M.
 
No memory errors were detected, and i've just checked that everything is connected properly hardware side, now what should I do? I'm pretty lost on what the problem is..
 
wow, im quite puzzeled with your problem after all you have already tried...
Dust? give it a blow (Y)
i wanna say create another partition and do a fresh install and test it on a new partition if you have the time and disk space

also just throwing this out there, virus? run hijackthis, malwarebytes, spybot S&D, Ad-aware SE

see what you get
 
You all up to date on your drivers? Removed any overclocks you have? (as they are notorious for blue screens)?

Have a look in the event viewer the blue screen should be recorded in there - what does it say?


M.
 
Just de-dusted it all, i haven't tried playing any games today, i'll scan for viruses now using all of those programs, and I'll see if i need to update anything, do any of you know the best way to check for driver updates? Thanks for the tips, i'll post results later! :)

Oh, and It hasn't blue screened at all.. but where abouts do i look in the event viewer?
 
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If you open event viewer and look in system and application logs for red errors. If you do it straight after a blue screen it should be near the top (most recent).



M.
 
Craiig said:
Sounding Good so far.. :o
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L4D2 ran fine for about half an hour with no freezes, but other activities (like going outside, lol) got in the way, so I think the problem may have gone away, but if it returns i'll update on here!

Thanks for the help guys, it's much appreciated! :cool:
 
I'm gonna say it's a bad PSU or video card. What PSU do you have? You could also try some older drivers for the video card.
 
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