Hello,
Since a few weeks I am experiencing some random crashes/freezes/reboots on my desktop. Since a few days these crashes are getting more frequent. From where it would happen once a couple days, it now happens every few hours.
I started experiecing the problem while gaming on windows 7, with my old hdd and 8 gb of ram. That’s when I started to look up on the internet and see if I could find a solution. In the beginning it started with a single freeze while I was gaming, the pc rebooted, after rebooting I noticed that I couldnt open any file or program on my hdd - it wasnt spinning (I have OS on my ssd). I restarted my PC and it was fixed. But this problem went on a couple more times. So I Checked my drives with hard disk sentinel; it said that there were many problems with my hdd, also 9 years old, so i bought a new one (+ 16gb ram because wanted that too). Backed-up all my files, clean installed windows 10 on my ssd and put my backed up files back on my new hdd. I formatted my old hdd afterwards, its still connected but not using it at the moment.
fast forward - after w10 install I didnt have any problems for 2 weeks. Then I got a crash, following days more crashes started to happen, also more often. While gaming, while doing nothing, at boot, after couple hours, just random!
Couple things I did to try fixing this;
Event viewer says: kernel power error 41 - changed some power settings, turned off auto driver download, disabled duplicate audio
checked all temperatures with open hardware monitor; everything shows fine
cleaned files and junk with ccleaner
Updated gpu drivers
did system restore and uninstalled latest updates, also did a system rewind to restore system back to when it was working without problems
Also yesterday, this happened only once so far, my keyboard wasnt starting when pc
My PC specs are:
Windows 10 home 64 bit
Motherboard MSI Z97 gaming 5
Bios date: 6/27/14
Processor: i7-4790K CPU 4.00GHz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070
RAM: 2x8gb
PSU: Antec EA-750 750w, about 8 years old
DirectX12
Hope someone here can help me, would be grateful!
Since a few weeks I am experiencing some random crashes/freezes/reboots on my desktop. Since a few days these crashes are getting more frequent. From where it would happen once a couple days, it now happens every few hours.
I started experiecing the problem while gaming on windows 7, with my old hdd and 8 gb of ram. That’s when I started to look up on the internet and see if I could find a solution. In the beginning it started with a single freeze while I was gaming, the pc rebooted, after rebooting I noticed that I couldnt open any file or program on my hdd - it wasnt spinning (I have OS on my ssd). I restarted my PC and it was fixed. But this problem went on a couple more times. So I Checked my drives with hard disk sentinel; it said that there were many problems with my hdd, also 9 years old, so i bought a new one (+ 16gb ram because wanted that too). Backed-up all my files, clean installed windows 10 on my ssd and put my backed up files back on my new hdd. I formatted my old hdd afterwards, its still connected but not using it at the moment.
fast forward - after w10 install I didnt have any problems for 2 weeks. Then I got a crash, following days more crashes started to happen, also more often. While gaming, while doing nothing, at boot, after couple hours, just random!
Couple things I did to try fixing this;
Event viewer says: kernel power error 41 - changed some power settings, turned off auto driver download, disabled duplicate audio
checked all temperatures with open hardware monitor; everything shows fine
cleaned files and junk with ccleaner
Updated gpu drivers
did system restore and uninstalled latest updates, also did a system rewind to restore system back to when it was working without problems
Also yesterday, this happened only once so far, my keyboard wasnt starting when pc
My PC specs are:
Windows 10 home 64 bit
Motherboard MSI Z97 gaming 5
Bios date: 6/27/14
Processor: i7-4790K CPU 4.00GHz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070
RAM: 2x8gb
PSU: Antec EA-750 750w, about 8 years old
DirectX12
Hope someone here can help me, would be grateful!
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