Computer freezes every few minutes

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by DenDen, Jul 7, 2012.

  1. DenDen

    DenDen Private E-2

    Hello there everyone,

    My PC has been freezing for a couple of days now after about 5 Power Cuts occured, though I do have a basic surge protector. It keeps freezing every four minutes or so. For example when I'm playing ArmA II the game freezes, but I can still hear people's voices over ventrilo and I can use the push to talk fine. When I'm watching a video using Windows Media player, the video and the audio just completely freeze then the audio cuts in and out, followed by the video playing normally again for a couple of minutes. Another example is when I'm browsing;the browser just outputs "Not responding" and when I try to open task manager it stalls until the issue passes then the manager pops up.

    Computer Specs:
    CPU: Intel i5 2500k
    RAM: Kingston PC3 10600 CL9 240 PIN DIMM - 2 Sticks, one 4GB and one 2GB-Total: 6 GB.
    Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68AP-D3
    BIOS: Touch BIOS Award Modular v6.00PG
    Video card: nVidia GTX 560 Ti ( Gigabyte version )
    PSU: 500W HEC 500 TE 2WX
    OS:Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64 Bit

    I've ran chkdsk twice, no bad sectors or so. I switched out RAM slots, and removed the 2GB stick completely but the issue still persisted, I didn't want to remove the 4GB stick and try the 2GB one because I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate. The freezing also happens when I'm browsing, PC just freezes momentarily for a period of about 40 seconds and then runs perfectly fine for 4-5 minutes.

    I also did a system restore to a point before the freezing occured; It did not work.

    I ran memtest86 on each of my sticks separately for 7 passes, no errors.

    More info: The PC can boots up nicely, and fast, However; The issue happens about 10 minutes after booting up.

    I went into BIOS and checked my voltages:
    Vcore: 1.212V
    DDR15: 1.524V
    +12V: 12.024V
    VCC3: 3.324V
    VTT: 1.064V

    but according to CPUID/CPU-Z when I start up the voltage of Vcore drops down and variates from ~0.800 to ~1.200

    I'm about to run BurnIn test and post the results here.
     
  2. Tueur

    Tueur Sergeant Major

    What checkdisk did you run?

    chkdsk /f /r

    That will check the disk surface.

    Hard disk is my bet at the minute. What make disk is it?
     

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