PC Freezing/CheckDisk interaction

[ironballs1]

I've been trying to diagnose my friends freezing pc but didn't manage to reach any conclusion.
PC Parts:

- FX 6300
- 16 GB RAM
- ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0
- Super Flower / AXP - 550W
- Nvidia GTX 770

Short backstory:

Last year pc was freezing doing random tasks: games, netflix, general usage.Eventually the pc stopped booting up and taking it to a pc repair center ended up with them replacing the motherboard + HDD. Fast forward to today, the freezes are back and I have tried to following things:

- Fresh windows install, disabling all services
- Use 1 RAM stick , in every slot, ( bought new RAM )
- defrag
- AV scans (avast)
- ran windows memory/hdd diagnose tests, reported no issue
- crystal disk info reported perfect health HDD

(nothing worked)

I have tried running checkdisk in cmd, however it said that the Volume is in use by another process,tried running it in safemode as well but no use. Tried stopping checkdisk from booting up trough registry, but that didn't help, it still said the volume is in use.

Upon restarting the pc after every freeze, the following line is present in Event Viewer 1-2 seconds before the Critical message - ( https://puu.sh/zaVLJ/4778285003.png ). Which made me think checkdisk could be to blame

 

[ragnar-gd]

I would not come to the idea your disk is to blame from that message, this just happens when your PC powers down irregularily.
This more is (again) possibly related to your MoBo, or to problems in your PSU (or both, if the PSU damaged your MoBo).
I'd check first the MoBo with another PSU (again at least 550W) for some time.
Still, I'd go to the shop, and ask them about ideas first.

 

[ironballs1]

will try to check another PSU

 

[ironballs1]

replaced PSU to a 550W EVGA G3 Gold and the problem still persists

 

[ragnar-gd]

As many users - including me - have repeatedly RMA'd their MoBo, i'd now consider visiting the shop again with the MoBo. Some times this are errors not of the individual MoBo, but of a batch of MoBos, and maybe you gave one bad MoBo away, and got another with the same problem.
Nice PSU - i hope you didn't buy it just because of my speculation... ?

 

[ironballs1]

bought the PSU with the intention of building a new pc in the future, will see what we can do about the MoBo

 

[ragnar-gd]

Good luck!

 

[ironballs1]

coming back to this, bought a new MOBO/CPU/RAM/PSU -> (b350m,ryzen5 1600,and a 550W EVGA G3 Gold ). after like 6 months since then the exact same problem is back on seemingly new parts. any ideas?