Illusive Hard Freeze.....

[steadyjeff]

HI I have just recently (less than a year with new system) started having a hard freeze problem on my pc. Its happened about 10 times now and only while playing a game. However, it has happened on 5 or 6 different games. The system just freezes the current frame on the monitor and makes a low buzz on the speakers. Ctr-Alt-Del doesn't do anything and there is absolutely zero response from any input. Only option is to shutdown pc with on/off switch and restart from there. I have tried switching paging file sizes and switched from programs to background services in advanced performance settings. The only afterthought as I am writing this is that actually, all these games may have all been Steam supported games. I know it has happened on at least these games and some others I can't recall: Empires Total War, Hearts of Iron III, and Fable III. I also do all my college classes online via this system and have had zero problems other than while running games.

ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED


Specs: Asus Maximus V motherboard / CPU = (i7-2700K @3.5GHz) / C drive = {Corsair Force Series GS CSSD-F360GBGS-BK 2.5" 360GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)} / extra (paging file only) 60g patriot pyro ssd / 1tb storage hdd / 150g backup hdd / Video Card = (MSI R7950 Twin Frozr 3GD5/OC Radeon HD 7950 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support) / two cd drives including one: (ASUS Black 12X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA Internal Blu-ray Drive Model BC-12B1ST/BLK/B/AS - OEM) / win7pro (with 7.8 out of 7.9 windows experience index)

 

[13thmonkey]

cpu + gpu temps please at idle and when gaming, before it freezes.

does that patriot support trim, if not then that is probably the culprit, I was using an ssd for swap and kept getting blue screens, moved the swap file to a hdd and it was fine.

 

[ZippyPeanut]

I wish I could offer you some good advice, but, alas I cannot. I had the exact same problem with a custom CyberPower machine that I bought five years ago. This problem is the herpes of the PC population: it's not fatal, but it will NEVER go away. I tried EVERYTHING: new memory, flashed the BIOS, updated drivers, new PSU, registry fixes, every diagnostic test know to humankind, blah, blah, blah. The problem started a week after getting the computer and never went away. It still does it! There are a lot of other threads about this problem. Almost all of them fail to find a solution. My solution, eventually, was to retire the old machine and get a new one. (The sad thing was, when the computer worked, it worked great.) If there is a solution to this mysterious and seemingly unfixable problem, I'd sure love to know it.

Good luck with this.



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[chavez1]

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Randomly Freezes
No BSOD just random freezes with screen on and no keys or cursor repsond, all I can do is use a hard reset to restart. Then I get the standard windows was not shut down properly messege at start-up. I have been having this issue/s and have tried all the same standard help people have had to offer, in all the dfferent post I've read online.
To actually fix this issue I ended up having to go to the device manager and check for driver updates on all my devices, one at a time. I think the ones that had updates that fixed this issue were the ACPIx64-based PC under the computer drop down and the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers especially the ICH ATA and SATA AHCI ontrollers (I think these made the difference). I checked them all, but these were the only ones that had updates. Once those were updated and the computer was restarted, it has stayed on. It's been on for a day now and no problems so far.

 

[ZippyPeanut]

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Randomly Freezes
No BSOD just random freezes with screen on and no keys or cursor repsond, all I can do is use a hard reset to restart. Then I get the standard windows was not shut down properly messege at start-up. I have been having this issue/s and have tried all the same standard help people have had to offer, in all the dfferent post I've read online.
To actually fix this issue I ended up having to go to the device manager and check for driver updates on all my devices, one at a time. I think the ones that had updates that fixed this issue were the ACPIx64-based PC under the computer drop down and the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers especially the ICH ATA and SATA AHCI ontrollers (I think these made the difference). I checked them all, but these were the only ones that had updates. Once those were updated and the computer was restarted, it has stayed on. It's been on for a day now and no problems so far.

I hate to be a buzz-kill, but just wait. It will freeze again. I swear, there is no solution to this problem. I tried everything but exorcism!