So, my PC is odd.
It's been reliable for several years and it's still DDR3 (Planning to upgrade to DDR4 when I can).
Sometimes it makes me think I need no upgrade, but other times it makes me think it's time to dump DDR3 now, but then I try one last time to test my PC and it works fine again... This time, it lasted 2 weeks until the freeze began again. Good times.
But anyways, PC generally it's ok. Can go to YouTube and watch stuff while I play an idle game and I play Runescape, all at the same time. Absolutely no issues on good days for hours, even my lil bro plays after I go do something else, so add some extra hours of use with no incident.
But on the really bad days, 5 mins in a vid is all it takes for a total system freeze that can shut off my PC fully, then it will reattempt a restart, only to freeze on the ASUS logo and restart again, then it begins a "1 sec" boot loop, forcing me to shut off the PC fully by turning off the surge protector.
That time, it was different... Finally I got a BSOD: "IRQL Not Less or Equal", but left no dump... Ironic, because the other total freezes just stopped on the last frame of something and shuts itself off afterwards with no BSOD at all...
What's going on? What could be failing in my PC that gives no signal of failure? Everything loads properly. No signs of garbled crap or errors loading stuff, no graphical glitches, temps are fine, and I did a clean Win reinstall and nothing fixed that. (That was a risky move, by the way, if my PC decided to act up in the middle of the reinstall, specially since it can freeze before POST).
What is happening to my PC that can fake good health, but at the same time, it shows me something is failing that I cannot pinpoint the cause?
Thanks for reading.
It's been reliable for several years and it's still DDR3 (Planning to upgrade to DDR4 when I can).
Sometimes it makes me think I need no upgrade, but other times it makes me think it's time to dump DDR3 now, but then I try one last time to test my PC and it works fine again... This time, it lasted 2 weeks until the freeze began again. Good times.
But anyways, PC generally it's ok. Can go to YouTube and watch stuff while I play an idle game and I play Runescape, all at the same time. Absolutely no issues on good days for hours, even my lil bro plays after I go do something else, so add some extra hours of use with no incident.
But on the really bad days, 5 mins in a vid is all it takes for a total system freeze that can shut off my PC fully, then it will reattempt a restart, only to freeze on the ASUS logo and restart again, then it begins a "1 sec" boot loop, forcing me to shut off the PC fully by turning off the surge protector.
That time, it was different... Finally I got a BSOD: "IRQL Not Less or Equal", but left no dump... Ironic, because the other total freezes just stopped on the last frame of something and shuts itself off afterwards with no BSOD at all...
What's going on? What could be failing in my PC that gives no signal of failure? Everything loads properly. No signs of garbled crap or errors loading stuff, no graphical glitches, temps are fine, and I did a clean Win reinstall and nothing fixed that. (That was a risky move, by the way, if my PC decided to act up in the middle of the reinstall, specially since it can freeze before POST).
What is happening to my PC that can fake good health, but at the same time, it shows me something is failing that I cannot pinpoint the cause?
Thanks for reading.