Hello all, been a faithful dependent on Tom's Hardware since the early 2000's made many succeful builds without destroying them thanks to reading my posts on here.
Here is my issue and hoping that you can help:
It appears that I can get on the internet and view webpages that have banners such as the ones I'm seeing on here. But if I don't pause the video that's on the main page. My computer freezes. No CTRL+ALT+DEL, nothing. Forced a hard turn off then back on.
I can also cause this with using a program like qbittorrent. All files are through a video game retro site (Pleasuredome) and never had a problem before the outage.
The outage took my 2007 1200watt PSU which I now have purchased a 1300 watt psu to replace.
MEMORY
I also replaced my 8GB of DDR3 1600 ram with 16 GB of DDR3 1600 RAM
The error and lock up were the same issue with both sets on memory
As with the new memory I have done the Win 10 memory test and did 15 passes.
Using the CD as the boot device, I also ran MEMTest86 with only 2 passes.
No errors reported via memory
CPU Stress Test?
FurMark had a stress test for the CPU ran it for a little bit, no issues.
VIDEO CARD
I used FurMark to test my video card. It got pretty hot and after a few minutes felt convinced that that wasnt the issue.
Nvidia 660Ti
SSD Boot Drive and HARD DRIVES
I ran CHKDSK /f /r /x on all my hard drives including my SSD drive and there were no bad sectors.
Mind you the computer was on for 24 hours and no freezing occurred.
So here is the symptom that seems to be the only thing that can repeat itself with an exception:
I open ANY web brower: Firefox, Opera, Microft Edge, Brave, Epic and everything runs fine UNTIL I open a webpage that has a video on it OR I attempt to download a file. The computer gets choppy via cursor and then locks. Once in a while it will get choppy and continue but overall that seems to repeat.
At one point I opened ALL of the browsers and put three tabs open all running a YouTube video that I had play in HD but all at different speeds (2x, 1,5x 1.0x 0.5x and .25x) That time, they all ran and no issue.
If I run qbittorent by itself to download a file, it will download at a high rate (over 50MB/s then crash) to add, downloading a file from a webpage has caused crashes as well.
Sorry if wordy or vague, just hopefully will help. Appreciate all helpful feedback!
Also to Add, downloaded a file, file made cursor very laggy and jumpy once download was done, cursor was fine. Have not tried to allow seed yet for fear of crashing.
Here is my issue and hoping that you can help:
It appears that I can get on the internet and view webpages that have banners such as the ones I'm seeing on here. But if I don't pause the video that's on the main page. My computer freezes. No CTRL+ALT+DEL, nothing. Forced a hard turn off then back on.
I can also cause this with using a program like qbittorrent. All files are through a video game retro site (Pleasuredome) and never had a problem before the outage.
The outage took my 2007 1200watt PSU which I now have purchased a 1300 watt psu to replace.
MEMORY
I also replaced my 8GB of DDR3 1600 ram with 16 GB of DDR3 1600 RAM
The error and lock up were the same issue with both sets on memory
As with the new memory I have done the Win 10 memory test and did 15 passes.
Using the CD as the boot device, I also ran MEMTest86 with only 2 passes.
No errors reported via memory
CPU Stress Test?
FurMark had a stress test for the CPU ran it for a little bit, no issues.
VIDEO CARD
I used FurMark to test my video card. It got pretty hot and after a few minutes felt convinced that that wasnt the issue.
Nvidia 660Ti
SSD Boot Drive and HARD DRIVES
I ran CHKDSK /f /r /x on all my hard drives including my SSD drive and there were no bad sectors.
Mind you the computer was on for 24 hours and no freezing occurred.
So here is the symptom that seems to be the only thing that can repeat itself with an exception:
I open ANY web brower: Firefox, Opera, Microft Edge, Brave, Epic and everything runs fine UNTIL I open a webpage that has a video on it OR I attempt to download a file. The computer gets choppy via cursor and then locks. Once in a while it will get choppy and continue but overall that seems to repeat.
At one point I opened ALL of the browsers and put three tabs open all running a YouTube video that I had play in HD but all at different speeds (2x, 1,5x 1.0x 0.5x and .25x) That time, they all ran and no issue.
If I run qbittorent by itself to download a file, it will download at a high rate (over 50MB/s then crash) to add, downloading a file from a webpage has caused crashes as well.
Sorry if wordy or vague, just hopefully will help. Appreciate all helpful feedback!
Also to Add, downloaded a file, file made cursor very laggy and jumpy once download was done, cursor was fine. Have not tried to allow seed yet for fear of crashing.
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