PC keeps freezing.Help please!!!!

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My rig is 2 years old and It's free of dust and the temps of CPU and GPU are normal.The OS is 2 months old and is a fresh install with 3 games

However now the system freezes at boot up sometimes at the windows logo and sometimes on the desktop
The freeze is such that the I can see the frozen desktop and my CPU and GPU fans are running but system is unresponsive and the HDD LED is not blinking

Is my PSU failing?Thanks in advance for helping


AMD FX 8350
8GB DDR3 ram
Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 gaming
corsair hx 650 psu
 
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I am no fan of Corsair power supplies. I cannot even find that model in our power supply list.

I would like to point you in the direction of a quality power supply. I am linking it at Newegg only to show you the unit. I do not know if they have the best price or not...

SeaSonic M12II 620 Bronze 620W ATX12V V2.3 / EPS 12V V2.91 SLI Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply $79.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=seasonic+620w&N=-1&isNodeId=1
 
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Apologise if I sound like a noob as am new to this but if the PSU is failing than why doesnt my PC freeze when in BIOS and why do the fans still run on freezing including the Motherboard LED
 
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When you are in the BIOS, there is next to no load being drawn from the power supply. It draws a screen, you interact with it, but the amount of power being used is very minimal. Plus, you are never in the BIOS for long.

Once the system starts booting, then it starts drawing more power. And if the power supply is a low quality power supply, or was poorly constructed, then that is when the power supply would start sending less than stable power, which your system is not designed for. And that is when your system starts doing some very random, and undesirable, things. Which then leads to you coming here.

Very few people come here because their systems are working perfectly smooth.
 
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My PC again started running fine for a few days and today while gaming there was a garbled radio static like noise and the PC froze and the problem has reoccured

HDD sentinel reported the SSD health at 98% and excellent

I am buying a new PSU now but is it possible the mobo is the fault?Because Corsair PSU are made by Seasonic
 
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As I posted, I cannot confirm who makes that power supply. It is not even on the list of power supplies that is kept here on Tom's.
 
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format full hard disk ,to make sure virus is not infected or install 360 total securyty and scan full pc it is best
open all heat sinks on mother board and aply some cooling past
reset bios by reinserting its battery with new
change ram ,its more likely your problem and try insert only one ram
after installing your os immediately install 360 total security
check fans speed
voila! problem solv ed

 
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OK, earlier you posted that you have a Corsair HX 750. Now you say Corsair HX 650.

When I look at the list you linked, which is from 2013, I see one entry for Corsair HX 650 with a Seasonic manufacturer, and then not one, but TWO totally different entry for Corsair HX Series, one showing Channel Well and one showing Seasonic. Neither of these two entries show capacities. This may be why the list I use, which is a 2015 listing, does not show the Corsair HX at all. So I do not know who made that unit. Conflicting information does not help. And I have conflicting information from the 2013 list, and from you on which power supply you are using now.

So with that unresolved, where does that leave us. Well, except for the guy above that wants you to wipe your system and start all over, I think buying another power supply, and trying it out is the next cheapest option, and if I am right, you still have your hard drive intact.

I am not saying that he is wrong. I do not know if you already have an antivirus program and antimalware program running, but if you do not, then it could be a virus. But the static you mentioned sure sounds like a power problem to me.
 
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see psu can be faulty but it more likely to be a last option ,first is virus
 
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I have ordered the PSU you listed.In the mean time,I will install Windows on my secondary HDD and see if my SSD is at fault
 
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I just ran the memtest and the test froze in between once at 2:55 and then at 3:02 and again at 3:00 without completing.

Could the ram be the problem here?
 
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I don't know. Instead of answering my questions, you come up with new questions. I still do not know which power supply you are actually using. You also did not clear up if you have been running an antivirus program.

I went back and read everything in this thread again tonight. Not only have you not been answering my questions, but it appears that you also have not tried anything the other people have suggested either.

And until YOU start trying things out to help us know what is really going on there, I am just about at the point where I will walk away. I cannot see your system. I require that you try things we ask, and that you then tell us what happened.

So you finally ran memtest... But I didn't see anyone suggest that. All I can say right now is that memory can do almost anything to your system, but that there are tons of checks in Windows looking for abnormal values, and you have not mentioned anything about getting strange BSOD errors. Lockups can also be caused by almost anything. But in your first post in this thread you talk about lockups at random points. Then later you talk about a static noise. Then you seem to have SSD problems. Motherboard problems. The odds of having a bad motherboard, bad memory, and bad SSD are almost zero. So what is affecting everything. Well, their is one thing. Power Supply. Am I 100% certain its the power supply? No. But of the various items we have talked about, I feel it is both the most likely problem point, and the cheapest to buy. So that is where I went.

I am over 90% sure this isn't a virus. Only very rarely do viruses cause your computer to lockup. The virus authors want your computer to do something, and a locked up computer would not be able to do that. And if it was causing a lockup, it should happen in the same spot, and with the same things happening each time. So I am not buying that.

And finally, SSD's. They have no moving parts. So they are very reliable. But, any electronic device can fail. And some will. I look at them as being like humans. Sometimes they get sick and die slowly. Sometimes they live for a very long time, and then die suddenly. And sometimes, you install Windows, and the next time you boot they are dead. Fortunately for most of us, SSD's do what we want them to, and do so for a very, very long time.

Get that new power supply hooked up, and lets see if I am right or wrong. This is the easy thing to check out. After this, if the lockups continue, its going to be a lot more difficult to narrow it down to a single item.
 
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