My pc keeps Freezing?

JasonKnights · 9 Sep 2012 at 19:01

My pc has started randomly freezing. Sometimes it's seems ok for hours then sometimes it freezes within minutes of turning on?. If I leave it when it freezes I can eventually use it again. But the time is never the same. Sometimes a few mins then other times more. I tried reinstalling windows which seamed fine but now it's happening again. My suspicions are the Ssd drive I'm using. A corsair F90 or the motherboard. As the temps are all fine and sometimes it can be on for 6 7 hours unattended and it's fine. Just when I'm using it.? Any ideas

mickyflinn · 9 Sep 2012 at 19:24

Have you tested your memory, if not then run mem test.

JasonKnights · 9 Sep 2012 at 19:38

Il give it a try with a memory test. It's all been fine for 2years and only just started now?

Trusty · 9 Sep 2012 at 21:00

SSD is my instinct, i had the same problem with my M4 until i updated to lastest bios. Check and see if theres a new bios out for your ssd?

JasonKnights · 9 Sep 2012 at 21:24

Sure il have a look now cheers.

OliverDavis · 10 Sep 2012 at 09:58

I know you haven't listed it, but did you by any chance buy a TP-Link Wifi PCIe card from another online retailer for £11-£15?

2 of my friends bought these and had problems very similar to yours..

We found out what is was after playing GTA IV on the xbox, one of them lagged a tiny bit and notice their PC had frozen. The WiFi card seems to make the PC freeze when the connection is dropped and gained again suddenly. This happened on both systems with completely different parts. If you have a PCI/PCIe Wireless card, unplug it, check for stability and report back.

After buying new WiFi cards neither of them experienced the problem again, hope I helped!

sadbuttrue · 10 Sep 2012 at 11:20

PC in sig? If you have power saving features enabled my first thought would be an unstable overclock. It is very hard to get such a high overclock stable with power saving enabled.

JasonKnights · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:50

Most of the time the CPU is clocked down to 1.6ghz and only overclocks when needed. This problem happens while pc is idle too. I have got a dlink extreme wireless N dual band 300mb pciex wifi card in?

OliverDavis · 11 Sep 2012 at 08:45

JasonKnights said:
Most of the time the CPU is clocked down to 1.6ghz and only overclocks when needed. This problem happens while pc is idle too. I have got a dlink extreme wireless N dual band 300mb pciex wifi card in?

Remove it and keep trying!