Ok so I bought this PC from my mother's company when they were getting new ones. It's a HP 8000 Elite Small Form Factor. Specs are 4GB DDR3, Intel Quad Q9505 2.83 GHz, Intel Q45/Q43 Express Chipset (onboard graphics?) running on Win 7 Pro, all drivers updated. When I bought this PC, the IT guy helped me wiped all the data then installed a fresh copy of Win 7 and cleaned out all the dust. When I got the PC, the only thing I downloaded was League Of Legends. Runs smoothly at 60 fps on lowest setting. Since the first day, my pc has been hanging while playing it. The weird thing is, I can play the game for hours at a time and it doesn't hang, but sometimes it hangs on the first game I play. Hang as in really hang, cursor doesn't move, pc doesn't respond to anything except the cd drive lol. So I thought it might be a virus. I downloaded Avast, bitdefender and Malwarebytes. Did a full scan. Got rid of tons of virus, went to play a game of League Of Legends. Oops, hanged again. So I downloaded CCleaner and Advanced SystemCare, checked for registry errors, repaired them and started another game. But still hangs. I've had this pc for 5 months now. During the first 2 months, hangs typically happen at 7-10minutes into the game, and NEVER happens on the FIRST game of the boot. But as I've played more games and own this pc for a longer period of time, the pc can hang occasionally at weird timings, on the FIRST game of the boot, etc.. Load during gaming is only about 50-70%. Recently, the hangs has occurred more. It can happen twice during a 50 minute game. For example, I start a game. It hangs at 8 minutes into the game. I force shutdown and restart pc, reconnects into the game, 10 minutes later, it hangs again. I thought the hangs were related to League Of Legends only, so I downloaded starcraft 2. During the first 3 days, I played the game for HOURS without hangs or even hangs. But since yesterday, it hanged when I wasn't even playing it. I was at the menu screen after finishing a game, watching a youtube video with nothing else on. And it hanged. Twice. So it doesn't hang WHILE I am in game, which is when the load is heaviest, but when I am in the menu screen it hangs. Today morning, it hanged while I was like 6 minutes into the game. It was the first time my pc hanged while I was in a starcraft 2 game. So anyway, I have come to a conclusion that my pc will only hang when a game is on. Any solutions?
I am 100% sure there is no heat problem. Have tried waiting it out for an hour...
I am 100% sure there is no heat problem. Have tried waiting it out for an hour...