I'm at my wits end. This week I gave my PC a long overdue upgrade, installing a Maximus IX Hero motherboard and an i7-7700k CPU.
Did a fresh install of Windows 7. Got all my drivers updated, codecs installed, programs re-installed. So on and so forth.
The purpose of the upgrade was to improve my ability to capture game footage and edit in Premiere. In doing some simple editing to test out the new system, trouble. The computer would hard freeze at random. No blue screen. No power off. Everything just stops. Even the mouse.
Looking around for answers, I ended up disabling my Realtek audio devices. Didn't need them anyway. Things stabilize. Kind of. I am able to edit, but exporting the video still causes the freeze.
Thinking maybe it was Premiere Elements, I started a trial of Premiere Pro and got the same effect. At the advice of their forums, I rolled back my GPU (GeForce GTX 670) to a six month old driver. That helped a bit. At last check I'm running a 50% success rate in exporting video. (Also, Premiere Elements won't start up at all now, but that's a whole other issue).
Thinking it was the graphics card, I've tried various configurations, including removing my graphics card and running off the motherboard. Same thing happens.
The issue is more than just Premiere. Capturing game footage via OBS is a crapshoot as well. I've successfully captured games of Overwatch running 1080 60. And I've had my computer freeze recording footage of Mario Maker through my capture card.
Intel's CPU diagnostic came back green and I just did a 20 minute CPU stress test using Extreme Tuning Utility. Checks out fine.
Running 3D Mark, my graphics card made it through the GPU tests fine, but when it came to the CPU test it froze up.
I'm running out of troubleshooting ideas. The CPU seems to be fine. The GPU seems to be fine. But something about processes that utilize them both are giving my computer fits.
EDIT: Upgraded to Windows 10. Immediate test shows the problem persists.
EDIT 2: Looking at the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, it seems that my CPU is hitting temperatures of 100C and occasionally activating Thermal Throttling. It's still getting through the CPU benchmark and stress test without freezing though. The only benchmark that has frozen the computer is 3D Mark's CPU test with a bunch of planes flying around.
Edit 3: An image link to CPU and GPU data. https://imgur.com/a/zgKjx
Edit 4: Heatsink wasn't the problem. Computer is still freezing up. Things that cause computer to freeze or BSOD include: Exporting video in Adobe Premiere, rapidly moving around the timeline in Adobe Premiere, capturing 1080 60 footage with OBS, and 3D Mark's CPU AI/Physics tests. Problem persists with one or both RAM sticks and regardless of using the on-board GPU or my GeForce 670.
Did a fresh install of Windows 7. Got all my drivers updated, codecs installed, programs re-installed. So on and so forth.
The purpose of the upgrade was to improve my ability to capture game footage and edit in Premiere. In doing some simple editing to test out the new system, trouble. The computer would hard freeze at random. No blue screen. No power off. Everything just stops. Even the mouse.
Looking around for answers, I ended up disabling my Realtek audio devices. Didn't need them anyway. Things stabilize. Kind of. I am able to edit, but exporting the video still causes the freeze.
Thinking maybe it was Premiere Elements, I started a trial of Premiere Pro and got the same effect. At the advice of their forums, I rolled back my GPU (GeForce GTX 670) to a six month old driver. That helped a bit. At last check I'm running a 50% success rate in exporting video. (Also, Premiere Elements won't start up at all now, but that's a whole other issue).
Thinking it was the graphics card, I've tried various configurations, including removing my graphics card and running off the motherboard. Same thing happens.
The issue is more than just Premiere. Capturing game footage via OBS is a crapshoot as well. I've successfully captured games of Overwatch running 1080 60. And I've had my computer freeze recording footage of Mario Maker through my capture card.
Intel's CPU diagnostic came back green and I just did a 20 minute CPU stress test using Extreme Tuning Utility. Checks out fine.
Running 3D Mark, my graphics card made it through the GPU tests fine, but when it came to the CPU test it froze up.
I'm running out of troubleshooting ideas. The CPU seems to be fine. The GPU seems to be fine. But something about processes that utilize them both are giving my computer fits.
EDIT: Upgraded to Windows 10. Immediate test shows the problem persists.
EDIT 2: Looking at the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, it seems that my CPU is hitting temperatures of 100C and occasionally activating Thermal Throttling. It's still getting through the CPU benchmark and stress test without freezing though. The only benchmark that has frozen the computer is 3D Mark's CPU test with a bunch of planes flying around.
Edit 3: An image link to CPU and GPU data. https://imgur.com/a/zgKjx
Edit 4: Heatsink wasn't the problem. Computer is still freezing up. Things that cause computer to freeze or BSOD include: Exporting video in Adobe Premiere, rapidly moving around the timeline in Adobe Premiere, capturing 1080 60 footage with OBS, and 3D Mark's CPU AI/Physics tests. Problem persists with one or both RAM sticks and regardless of using the on-board GPU or my GeForce 670.
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