How to fix this.

[Cole95]

Hey!

I built a PC approx. 1 year ago. Everything was working fine for the first 2 to 3 months, when suddenly my PC started freezing in game. It never freezes on desktop use, but on gaming it freezes but randomly. Freezing stopped for a moment, but now its back. Thats why I am asking now, what do I do with this, any ideas where this is coming from, so I can change the part.

spec:

OS: Windows 10 Education 64-bit

MOBO: Z170 Pro Gaming

RAM: 2x4 Gb Crucial Ballistix DDR4 2400MHz (I actually had 4x4 Gb same rams, but the PC wont post with 4 sticks anymore)

CPU: i5 Skylake 6600K @ 3.5GHz

GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970

Storage: Kingston SV300S37A240G SSD + Seagate ST1000DM003-1SB10C (Tried OS + games on HDD, didnt change a thing)

PSU: Corsair RM550

.. Eventlog is not helpful. It only shows that the "PC was restarted without turning it off first blah blah.." and pretty much haven't found anything else useful in Eventlog.

So freeze itself is simple: Game just stops working suddenly, all the sounds disappear (even outside the game), mouse and kboard doesnt do anything, cant alt+ctrl+del, cant do anything else than kill my PC with shut down.

Starting to grind my gears, if I could just know what the part is I could replace it. Building a whole new PC would hurt my wallet a bit too much.

Haven't really got any other problems with PC, other than couple days ago I got bluescreen UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP, but wasnt a freeze.

Thanks!

EDIT: oh and the freeze doens't usually happen more than once or twice a day. And usually when it freezes and I restart it, it won't freeze anytime soon.. and all temps are: GPU 67-69C and CPU ~50C in gaming, mobo ~28C, SSD/HDD +40C

 

[Ant_Teh_Nee]

RAM stays at 1200MHz even when using 100% of the PC (overwatch + discord + youtube) I also noticed alt+tab has started to lag like hell, first its just black screen for a moment then it goes to desktop and its very laggy for about 20 seconds. And also for some reason Im not able to get to bios anymore. F2/del brings bios, smashing both buttons (kboard is active, lights on) but still continues to launch.

What version of Windows are you using? If it's Windows 10 you have to disable fast boot in order to enter the BIOS. I think your RAM could have improperly under clocked itself. When you get into the bios, check what it's clocked at.

Well, we are getting somewhere. That's good

 

[Cole95]

Ok so I removed CMOS and I'm able to get in to bios again. I set my ram manually to work at 2133 MHz, but it still runs at ~1072.0 MHz to 1200.0 MHz. And my fps on overwatch doesn't drop at all from +150 fps, but the game has started to get these tiny millisecond freezes. And when I shut down the game, oh damn my desktop lags like hell about 10 seconds.. What to do, what to do?

EDIT: Im running full virus check atm. Will probs do fresh windows install too just to make sure.

 

[Ant_Teh_Nee]

Ok so I removed CMOS and I'm able to get in to bios again. I set my ram manually to work at 2133 MHz, but it still runs at ~1072.0 MHz to 1200.0 MHz. And my fps on overwatch doesn't drop at all from +150 fps, but the game has started to get these tiny millisecond freezes. And when I shut down the game, oh damn my desktop lags like hell about 10 seconds.. What to do, what to do?

EDIT: Im running full virus check atm. Will probs do fresh windows install too just to make sure.

How did it go? Again, go into your BIOS and check what the RAM is clocked at. Sometimes the BIOS reclocks after every boot. If it still is running slower, then I would RMA your RAM sticks if you can and buy 2133 base clocked variants of the RAM. I highly suggest G.Skill RAM. Great Quality and great customer service. What does the speed of the RAM say in Task Manager? For all we know CPU-Z is goofing up

 

[Ant_Teh_Nee]

Ok so I removed CMOS and I'm able to get in to bios again. I set my ram manually to work at 2133 MHz, but it still runs at ~1072.0 MHz to 1200.0 MHz. And my fps on overwatch doesn't drop at all from +150 fps, but the game has started to get these tiny millisecond freezes. And when I shut down the game, oh damn my desktop lags like hell about 10 seconds.. What to do, what to do?

EDIT: Im running full virus check atm. Will probs do fresh windows install too just to make sure.

Any results?