Programmes Not Responding

[Dom_broo98]

Hey, my PC has gone through a stage where it crashes 7-10 times a day. Once in a while everything stops responding until my PC crashes, to turn it off I have to hold down the off button. Sometimes on start up I get a crash and occasionally I get a blue memory error message once my PC has crashed. I have ran multiple virus scans and found nothing. Asking multiple friends that seem to think that it's something to do with my PSU/HardDrive. I have taken it to the local PC shop and they found no reason to why it's crashing and said they did their best to fix it. After getting it back, in the 1st 20 minutes of using it I crashed whilst playing a steam game.

I have ran a sfc /scannow in the cmd and "windows resource protection did not find any integrity violations"

I've done my best to re-update all my drivers and still I crash. Also I've seen no pattern to why I crash or have any clue to what programmes are causing me to crash.

 

[Dom_79]

Sounds like RAM. Have you tried running memtest? http://www.memtest86.com/

Follow the instructions, it takes quite a bit of time to run as many passes as necessary to determine if any of your RAM is bad (but with this many crashes and problems it probably won't be long before you see errors)

 

[Dom_broo98]

Sounds like RAM. Have you tried running memtest? http://www.memtest86.com/

Follow the instructions, it takes quite a bit of time to run as many passes as necessary to determine if any of your RAM is bad (but with this many crashes and problems it probably won't be long before you see errors)

I just ran a test and found 0 errors.

 

[Dom_79]

You just ran a test but for how many passes?

 

[Dom_broo98]

You just ran a test but for how many passes?

After spending all day testing each memory stick (I have 4 in total) changing the slots they are in and seeing if either of them are faulty. I've dug deeper and decided to avoid programmes that I thought crashed me. After not using skype all day I finally opened it just then and found that once my skype crashes, it brings my whole PC down with it.

Any ideas on that one?

 

[Dom_79]

No idea at all with the limited information you've provided so far. It seems to be quite a mystery.

Can you list your system specs? Also can you list the specific programs that crash your PC - obviously Skype but are there any others?

Have you monitored your temperatures? Have you tried running any stress testing (both CPU and GPU) programs?

You say your friends think it might be your HDD. Have you run error-checking?

When you brought it to the shop, did they tell you what they had done to check it (will help you eliminate certain possibilities)?

 

[Dom_broo98]

No idea at all with the limited information you've provided so far. It seems to be quite a mystery.

Can you list your system specs? Also can you list the specific programs that crash your PC - obviously Skype but are there any others?

Have you monitored your temperatures? Have you tried running any stress testing (both CPU and GPU) programs?

You say your friends think it might be your HDD. Have you run error-checking?

When you brought it to the shop, did they tell you what they had done to check it (will help you eliminate certain possibilities)?

CPU = Intel Core i7-2600k @ 3.40GHz
GPU = NVIDIA GTX 680
RAM = 16GB
OS = Windows 7

The only temperature that has been abnormal is my CPU temperature, the last time I checked it was 50-60 whilst idle, which I know isn't good. I don't know what actually crashes my PC, if I would know I probably would replace it, that's the reason why I haven't removed or changed my CPU as I don't want to waste money for the problem still to occur in the future. My GPU seems to be fine.

The shop I took it to wasn't great, all they did was remove some programmes that they thought collided such as avast and replaced them.

I've looked in my system events and have hundreds of errors that mostly occur of "The driver detected a controller error on /Device/Ide/IDePort2"