Momentary system freezes

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Hello everyone,

Every so often my system will freeze for a couple of seconds and then go on - it's very annoying as you can image! Any ideas what might be the problem:

Today it froze COMPELETELY 3-4 times in a few hours time so I have to find a solution to this - I checked the CPU temp and it's 43C, system at 39C.

Specs:

Intel i7 2.8G running at 3.3G (Nehalem/LGA1156)
Windows 7 on Crucial M225 128GB
OCZ Obsidian 4GB PC3-12800C9 running at 1500MHz I think
Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 mobo


Any ideas?

Thank you
 
Stable on Prime 95 etc? Ram running at the correct voltage?

Run Prime 95 for 8+ hours to give you some knowledge of what's going wrong, memtest isn't a bad idea either.
 
Stable on Prime 95 etc? Ram running at the correct voltage?

Run Prime 95 for 8+ hours to give you some knowledge of what's going wrong, memtest isn't a bad idea either.

Never heard of it, Google to the rescue :)

What's the correct voltage for the memory?

Say, could it be the SSD drive? It just froze 3 times on me when trying to compile a big C++ project which uses a lot of different files and stuff. How can I check SSD health?
 
So I've installed Hard Disk Sentinel and it tells me the SSD is at 92% health without actually telling me why. Here are the measurements if anyone can make sense of them:

1,Raw Read Error Rate,,,,,0000000000000007,0,Enabled
9,Power On Time Count,,,,,000000000000086B,0,Enabled
12,Drive Power Cycle Count,,,,,0000000000000000,0,Enabled
184,Initial Bad Block Count,,,,,000000000000001E,0,Enabled
195,Program Failure Block Count,,,,,0000000000000000,0,Enabled
196,Erase Failure Block Count,,,,,0000000000000000,0,Enabled
197,Read Failure Block Count,,,,,0000000000000000,0,Enabled
198,Total Count of Read Sectors,,,,,00000000A8BCA7F2,0,Enabled
199,Total Count of Write Sectors,,,,,000000007B6A90F6,0,Enabled
200,Total Count of Read Commands,,,,,0000000000D840F8,0,Enabled
201,Total Count of Write Commands,,,,,0000000001E7DF7D,0,Enabled
202,Total Count of Error Bits From Flash,,,,,0000000000030425,0,Enabled
203,Total Count of Read Sectors With Correctable Bit,,,,,000000000002E70F,0,Enabled
204,Bad Block Full Flag,,,,,0000000000000000,0,Enabled
205,Maximum PE Count Specification,,,,,0000000000002710,0,Enabled
206,Minimum Erase Count,,,,,0000000000000001,0,Enabled
207,Maximum Erase Count,,,,,0000000000005658,0,Enabled
208,Average Erase Count,,,,,0000000000000353,0,Enabled
209,Remaining Drive Life,,,,,000000000000005C,0,Enabled
 
I guess you've already checked the power settings and ensured they don't put your hdd to sleep after 10 or 20 minutes and it being them coming out of sleep that hangs your PC for a few seconds ?
 
I guess you've already checked the power settings and ensured they don't put your hdd to sleep after 10 or 20 minutes and it being them coming out of sleep that hangs your PC for a few seconds ?

Well, I've thought of that but the freezes happen even when I'm using the computer full time and the drives should be on. I guess I could try and disabling it and see what happens.

Prime 95 was running all night just fine. Gonna try memtest too but I don't think the problem is there. If anything, the culprit is the SSD - I'll try a firmware update for it too.
 
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