- Aug 22, 2023
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So about a month or two my desktop has decided to freeze and lock up completely with no BSOD while my girlfriendwas playing The Sims and continued to do so afterwards. Initially I figured it was a driver or malware issue so I began tracking it down (now mind you this freezing just happens can be in 30 seconds after boot could be 15 minutes). After finding no malware and no driver issues and still freezing I got fed up and just wiped my drives.
Well even with a fresh Windows install it's still happening so I sought out the internet and came to a few conclusions most of which pointing to hardware failure. So now I replace my CPU with no effect, following the frustration I replace my RAM. (I had ran mem checks and watched temperatures and voltages mind you and saw noting out of the ordinary but this was desperation as I need my pc for school too)
I've gotten to the point where I've basically built a brand new PC at this point. Other than the PSU which I'm doubting is the issue cause I notice no flickering of any of my components or any drastic voltage changes before the freezing, and my motherboard and main boot SSD. At this point I'm at a loss of ay idea what could be the issue Other than those 3. I'm seeking possible narrowing down as my troubleshooting budget for new hardware is running extremely dry. The only reason I haven't replaced my SSD is because my pc can't run long enough to create a flash boot to reinstall windows after doing so. I've also narrowed it down to not being my 3060 either by completely running off of the integrated graphics of the cpu.
Now to fully explain in as much detail as possible what freezing is, imagine playing perhaps heavily modded skyrim on a console and the game freezes and becomes completely unresponsive with that terrible jarring noise (only if something with audio is running) that's how my whole pc freezes.
Things I haven't replaced in my whole system is only my boot drive, PSU, MoBo, and HDMI cable. My event viewer is completely clean Other than the unexpected power off from me having to hard reboot.
I'm not sure if this could be a bios issue either so if any of these symptoms makes someone think it's a bios issue please suggest that.
Well even with a fresh Windows install it's still happening so I sought out the internet and came to a few conclusions most of which pointing to hardware failure. So now I replace my CPU with no effect, following the frustration I replace my RAM. (I had ran mem checks and watched temperatures and voltages mind you and saw noting out of the ordinary but this was desperation as I need my pc for school too)
I've gotten to the point where I've basically built a brand new PC at this point. Other than the PSU which I'm doubting is the issue cause I notice no flickering of any of my components or any drastic voltage changes before the freezing, and my motherboard and main boot SSD. At this point I'm at a loss of ay idea what could be the issue Other than those 3. I'm seeking possible narrowing down as my troubleshooting budget for new hardware is running extremely dry. The only reason I haven't replaced my SSD is because my pc can't run long enough to create a flash boot to reinstall windows after doing so. I've also narrowed it down to not being my 3060 either by completely running off of the integrated graphics of the cpu.
Now to fully explain in as much detail as possible what freezing is, imagine playing perhaps heavily modded skyrim on a console and the game freezes and becomes completely unresponsive with that terrible jarring noise (only if something with audio is running) that's how my whole pc freezes.
Things I haven't replaced in my whole system is only my boot drive, PSU, MoBo, and HDMI cable. My event viewer is completely clean Other than the unexpected power off from me having to hard reboot.
I'm not sure if this could be a bios issue either so if any of these symptoms makes someone think it's a bios issue please suggest that.
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