Hello all,
I have a pc with the following specs:
-mobo: asrock 990fx extreme 3
-cpu: amd fx8350
-gpu: amd r9 280x toxic (3GB)
-ram: 2x4GB + 2x2GB DDR3 (kingston 1333mhz)
-psu: evga 750w GQ gold 80+ (bought it 2 months ago as a replacement to my previous dead psu)
-hard drives: 3 hdd + 1 ssd (os is in kingston 256GB ssd)
-OS: windows 10
I am having a very strange issue the past days. My pc constantly freezes, no workaround, it just needs restart. The freeze happens randomly, from the desktop, during gaming, windows loading screen, safe mode, even while in BIOS.
My pc was struggling with some small hangings during browsing, after some seconds it came back to normal (cursor was moving normally, the rest was frozen). 2 weeks ago i got a 5 beep warning from my mobo when i tried to turn it on, i checked and pushed my gpu firmly in the socket, and the pc turned on normally. When i was getting this warning i did the same thing and everything run smoothly. 4 days ago the first major freeze happened while browsing, i restarted the pc and the freeze came back after some minutes, i tried restaring again and the pc wasn't getting any signal (although fans were spinning normally). So my troubleshooting started. Things i tried so far:
-Did mem check and manually checked all the ram sticks one by one in every slots, even tried other ramstick from another pc. Freeze happened every sinvle time, sometimes during windows logo, others during browsing after some minutes
-checked other gpu (working) , also checked the second pci-e slot with both the cards. I also managed to clean install the gpu drivers using DDU (i had 19.2.1, updated to 19.2.2)
-Removed the cpu, checked it, reinstalled it.
-removed all hard drives, tried only the ssd, then connected one by one the rest of the hard drives (each one sperately), and tried to boot from usb to install windows 10, got freeze.
-checked volts, seemed ok, got freeze in BIOS
-All temperatures were under 30 celcius.
-cleaned any dust
-visually checked the mobo's transistors etc.
While i am writing this to you i am still trying different stuff.
I noticed that during a freeze my mouse and keyboard lights turned off. So in my next restart i tried to unplug every usb device from behind the pc, and plugged the mouse and keyboard in the front panel.. It's being 20 minutes now without problems, i had a long issue-less run before too, so i don't want to keep my hopes up. Can the usb ports or devices cause so much trouble?
Please let me know what you think about all that.
Thanks in advance and sorry for the extra long post!
I have a pc with the following specs:
-mobo: asrock 990fx extreme 3
-cpu: amd fx8350
-gpu: amd r9 280x toxic (3GB)
-ram: 2x4GB + 2x2GB DDR3 (kingston 1333mhz)
-psu: evga 750w GQ gold 80+ (bought it 2 months ago as a replacement to my previous dead psu)
-hard drives: 3 hdd + 1 ssd (os is in kingston 256GB ssd)
-OS: windows 10
I am having a very strange issue the past days. My pc constantly freezes, no workaround, it just needs restart. The freeze happens randomly, from the desktop, during gaming, windows loading screen, safe mode, even while in BIOS.
My pc was struggling with some small hangings during browsing, after some seconds it came back to normal (cursor was moving normally, the rest was frozen). 2 weeks ago i got a 5 beep warning from my mobo when i tried to turn it on, i checked and pushed my gpu firmly in the socket, and the pc turned on normally. When i was getting this warning i did the same thing and everything run smoothly. 4 days ago the first major freeze happened while browsing, i restarted the pc and the freeze came back after some minutes, i tried restaring again and the pc wasn't getting any signal (although fans were spinning normally). So my troubleshooting started. Things i tried so far:
-Did mem check and manually checked all the ram sticks one by one in every slots, even tried other ramstick from another pc. Freeze happened every sinvle time, sometimes during windows logo, others during browsing after some minutes
-checked other gpu (working) , also checked the second pci-e slot with both the cards. I also managed to clean install the gpu drivers using DDU (i had 19.2.1, updated to 19.2.2)
-Removed the cpu, checked it, reinstalled it.
-removed all hard drives, tried only the ssd, then connected one by one the rest of the hard drives (each one sperately), and tried to boot from usb to install windows 10, got freeze.
-checked volts, seemed ok, got freeze in BIOS
-All temperatures were under 30 celcius.
-cleaned any dust
-visually checked the mobo's transistors etc.
While i am writing this to you i am still trying different stuff.
I noticed that during a freeze my mouse and keyboard lights turned off. So in my next restart i tried to unplug every usb device from behind the pc, and plugged the mouse and keyboard in the front panel.. It's being 20 minutes now without problems, i had a long issue-less run before too, so i don't want to keep my hopes up. Can the usb ports or devices cause so much trouble?
Please let me know what you think about all that.
Thanks in advance and sorry for the extra long post!