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My newly built PC has been freezing, stuttering, or displaying no signal after about hour of use - even without a hard drive. It gets faster after I reset the machine, but if it is left unplugged for a day it will run for around an hour. The first few times it will restart itself and give me the normal post beep. This has led me to believe this is a hardware issue.
I don't have to be doing anything for this to happen. I could have the hard drive unplugged and be in the bios setup and it still happens. I've looked and asked around and have been told that my ram is faulty. I'm not quite sure if this is the problem. Could both sticks be faulty? I've tried both sticks themselves and tried different slots, and I'm getting the same results. During one freeze the fan on the GPU shut off, but the other fans were still running. The speed of the fans never change, but one time the machine(fans?) sounded like a car struggling to start up.
I suspect this could either be the PSU, GPU, or the RAM. Any way to tell which component is faulty?
Thanks!
Specs
CPU - AMD Athlon X2 340 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor
Motherboard - Biostar Hi-Fi A85W ATX FM2 Motherboard
Memory - Kingston XMP Blu Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage - Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card - Zotac GeForce GT 630 2GB Video Card
PSU - Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Wireless Card - TP-Link TL-WN751ND
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Case - Xigmatek Recon ATX Mid Tower Case
Voltages
RAM info
Temperatures, etc...
My newly built PC has been freezing, stuttering, or displaying no signal after about hour of use - even without a hard drive. It gets faster after I reset the machine, but if it is left unplugged for a day it will run for around an hour. The first few times it will restart itself and give me the normal post beep. This has led me to believe this is a hardware issue.
I don't have to be doing anything for this to happen. I could have the hard drive unplugged and be in the bios setup and it still happens. I've looked and asked around and have been told that my ram is faulty. I'm not quite sure if this is the problem. Could both sticks be faulty? I've tried both sticks themselves and tried different slots, and I'm getting the same results. During one freeze the fan on the GPU shut off, but the other fans were still running. The speed of the fans never change, but one time the machine(fans?) sounded like a car struggling to start up.
I suspect this could either be the PSU, GPU, or the RAM. Any way to tell which component is faulty?
Thanks!
Specs
CPU - AMD Athlon X2 340 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor
Motherboard - Biostar Hi-Fi A85W ATX FM2 Motherboard
Memory - Kingston XMP Blu Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage - Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card - Zotac GeForce GT 630 2GB Video Card
PSU - Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Wireless Card - TP-Link TL-WN751ND
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Case - Xigmatek Recon ATX Mid Tower Case
Voltages
RAM info
Temperatures, etc...
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