So this problem started occurring about an month ago, but I have been in the process of moving so I haven't had the time to try and fix it until now. My PC was running fine, I was playing Terraria and then I went to go do something and ended up leaving my computer for a few hours, when I came back to my PC it was frozen. This would occasionally happen, not under these circumstances, but I wasn't too concerned so I just restarted it and went to get some food. When I come back, it was frozen on the sign in screen, so I restarted again, signed in, and then before I could load any programs it froze again.
So now I'm concerned, I tried to do a system restore to a backup but that failed, and then system restores no longer worked, I opened it in safe mode and it loaded fine and didn't freeze, I tried to do a factory reset but then that failed and any future attempts wouldn't work.
Because I was going to be in between houses for a while and then moving I decided to just leave it and then I moved into my new place last week, and my house mate suggested that it could be that windows was corrupted, so I bought a new ssd, installed windows 10 on it from my housemates build and then put it in my machine. It loaded but then shortly after it froze again, so at this point I know it's not a software issue, but unfortunately I have no idea what hardware issue it could be that is causing the freezes. We assume probably the motherboard or the cpu, but I can't afford to replace both and I can't risk buying one if I don't know which one I need to replace.
Sorry for rambling quite a bit.
Any help or suggestions will be appreciated, thank you very much.
Here are my current pc specs,
Motherboard: MSI x370 gaming plus
CPU: Ryzen 3 1300x
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 380
PSU: Corsair VS 650
8GB DDR4 Ram
1TB HDD
500GB SSD
So now I'm concerned, I tried to do a system restore to a backup but that failed, and then system restores no longer worked, I opened it in safe mode and it loaded fine and didn't freeze, I tried to do a factory reset but then that failed and any future attempts wouldn't work.
Because I was going to be in between houses for a while and then moving I decided to just leave it and then I moved into my new place last week, and my house mate suggested that it could be that windows was corrupted, so I bought a new ssd, installed windows 10 on it from my housemates build and then put it in my machine. It loaded but then shortly after it froze again, so at this point I know it's not a software issue, but unfortunately I have no idea what hardware issue it could be that is causing the freezes. We assume probably the motherboard or the cpu, but I can't afford to replace both and I can't risk buying one if I don't know which one I need to replace.
Sorry for rambling quite a bit.
Any help or suggestions will be appreciated, thank you very much.
Here are my current pc specs,
Motherboard: MSI x370 gaming plus
CPU: Ryzen 3 1300x
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 380
PSU: Corsair VS 650
8GB DDR4 Ram
1TB HDD
500GB SSD