I've been having trouble with my PC for about a month now. It has been fine for 2 years before this, then It started freezing intermittently. At first it was at random intervals, hours apart, then gradually it became more frequent so now it's generally within 5-10 mins of booting the machine. No BSOD or error messages, just a screen-freeze, totally unresponsive and I have to reboot manually. If I run the computer under very light load it might last an hour but generally it's very quick now.
My setup is
Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 Motherboard
Intel i5 6500 Quad Core 3.2GHz CPU
2x8GB Corsair DDR4 2133MHz LPX RAM (came as pair)
Samsung SSD 850 EVO M2 with Windows 10 installed
Corsair CX-600v3 600W Power Supply
I also have a graphics card + additional drives, but I have already removed them to test and the problem persists with the above hardware only. In addition I have taken the following troubleshooting measures
- Run Memtest on RAM both singularly and as pairs - no errors in any configuration.
- Tried booting with every configuration of RAM/available slots.
- Tried booting Ubuntu from a USB Flash drive.
- Run Coretemp to monitor CPU Temp - never went over 45deg celcius
- Even though Ubuntu still crashed I reinstalled Windows fresh on the SSD, as if that would help.
In all instances the freezing continued. So after the above I was lead to believe the problem must be the either the Motherboard, CPU or PSU.
This week I first replaced the PSU with a brand new Corsair 650M and when the problem persisted I then replaced the Motherboard with an ASUS Prime H270-Plus.
The problem continues.
I feel that the above pretty much points to the CPU being the issue. I've been told this is extremely rare however, and after dropping $200 on parts that apparently didn't need replacing, I'm a bit hesitant to do the same with a CPU without being super sure.
Have I missed a step in this diagnosis? Is there anything else I can do that would confirm or reject my hypothesis? Please help!
Worst of all, the CPU is the one part that I can't seem to find the box/warranty info for. I have them for literally every other part. Spewing.
My setup is
Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 Motherboard
Intel i5 6500 Quad Core 3.2GHz CPU
2x8GB Corsair DDR4 2133MHz LPX RAM (came as pair)
Samsung SSD 850 EVO M2 with Windows 10 installed
Corsair CX-600v3 600W Power Supply
I also have a graphics card + additional drives, but I have already removed them to test and the problem persists with the above hardware only. In addition I have taken the following troubleshooting measures
- Run Memtest on RAM both singularly and as pairs - no errors in any configuration.
- Tried booting with every configuration of RAM/available slots.
- Tried booting Ubuntu from a USB Flash drive.
- Run Coretemp to monitor CPU Temp - never went over 45deg celcius
- Even though Ubuntu still crashed I reinstalled Windows fresh on the SSD, as if that would help.
In all instances the freezing continued. So after the above I was lead to believe the problem must be the either the Motherboard, CPU or PSU.
This week I first replaced the PSU with a brand new Corsair 650M and when the problem persisted I then replaced the Motherboard with an ASUS Prime H270-Plus.
The problem continues.
I feel that the above pretty much points to the CPU being the issue. I've been told this is extremely rare however, and after dropping $200 on parts that apparently didn't need replacing, I'm a bit hesitant to do the same with a CPU without being super sure.
Have I missed a step in this diagnosis? Is there anything else I can do that would confirm or reject my hypothesis? Please help!
Worst of all, the CPU is the one part that I can't seem to find the box/warranty info for. I have them for literally every other part. Spewing.