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    Question PC Freezing / Locking up during intensive activity

    I haven't found any fixes other than lowering graphics settings on my games and doing less intensive activities. Some people have suggested that it may be a power supply issue.
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    Question PC Freezing / Locking up during intensive activity

    This is an issue I've struggled with for quite a while. From time to time while doing intensive activities such as playing a game or rendering a video, all image and sound will suddenly and abruptly pause, including the cursor, and will stay frozen until the computer is restarted with the power...
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    PC randomly freezes / reboots - Is my hard drive dying?

    Well I tried running memtest with one stick at a time on both sticks, and it just freezes both times before it can even get to two passes.
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    PC randomly freezes / reboots - Is my hard drive dying?

    I'm pretty sure it froze once while I was on the ubuntu desktop. For firmware, do you mean UEFI? If so it's P3.00. I'll try with one stick and see if that does anything, but keep in mind this was happening on my previous build with different RAM and motherboard, just not as frequently. EDIT...
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    PC randomly freezes / reboots - Is my hard drive dying?

    I've been having this problem where at random times my computer would freeze up completely suddenly and without warning: the image onscreen gets completely frozen, unable to even move the cursor, any sound playing suddenly goes silent, but the computer tower itself doesn't make any strange...