Ok, been working on this for over a week, and as google search has lead me to this forum many times for other problems I figure I'll try posting here, I think I'm in the right place, if not, apologies, just let me know how/where to move this.
Specs:
Win 7 64 bit
16 gb Ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144563
Gigabyte motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128565
AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.20ghz processor
GeForce GT 440 1gb gddr5 video card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134135
4 HDD's:
ST2000DM001
WDC WD20EARS
WDC WD2500BB
WDC WD5002ABYS
ORION HP585D 585W PSU
Symptoms: Computer will randomly freeze for 15 to 60 seconds. no mouse movement, any sounds playing will freeze as well. After that time everything is back to normal, however it appears during this freeze the internet connection has dropped, but comes back when the system un-freezes (this is based on being in an online game when this freeze has happened, i got a "attempting to connect" dialogue indicating connection problems) I can't figure out any consistency except it seems to happen more often the longer in between restarts, but this isnt 100% true. It happens while playing games, or just watching youtube with the same frequency.
Google lead me to run a chkdsk scan on my windows installation drive. This did reveal that the two partitions had bad sectors. I cloned the partitions onto a new (not out of the box but a spare) HD, ran chkdsk on the new HD and it came back clean. No other problems, so the clone should have gone fine, but the freezing continued.
Next up was memtest86. did one pass and had no errors.
Next was an attempt to test the power supply. I Disabled my DVD burner and one of the HD (one used mostly for storage, not games or windows) to see if lightening the load of the PSU would help. This initially seemed to work, I went for a few hours last night without this issue happening running a game, skype and streaming said game as well. To confirm it was a PSU issue and not that the HD i disconnected was also bad, i ran chkdsk on that, and it also returned errors and said it corrected them. I thought this may have been the problem so re-enabled it and the DVD Drive. I began seeing the freezing again, same as before. I disabled the DVD drive, to see if that was enough. Still freezing. Disabled the same HDD. this time it did NOT stop the freezing. I then tried physically disconnecting the two devices. but I still got the freezing as before.
Then I checked temperatures. Everything seems normal, the only other clue is that when the freeze occurs, my CPU temp jumps from between 25-30C to 40C for just a moment, then returns to normal. Similar things happen with "Temp2" and "Temp3" these go from a normal 40-45C spiking up to 55C(this is per the chart on SpeedFan 4.49) I do have screenshots of the Charts if this will help, I'd just need to know procedure/etiquette for posting images.
Any ideas would be a great help, let me know any other info that may be needed... Thanks in advance, at the end of my rope with this thing, first time a system has defeated me and my google-fu....
Specs:
Win 7 64 bit
16 gb Ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144563
Gigabyte motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128565
AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.20ghz processor
GeForce GT 440 1gb gddr5 video card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134135
4 HDD's:
ST2000DM001
WDC WD20EARS
WDC WD2500BB
WDC WD5002ABYS
ORION HP585D 585W PSU
Symptoms: Computer will randomly freeze for 15 to 60 seconds. no mouse movement, any sounds playing will freeze as well. After that time everything is back to normal, however it appears during this freeze the internet connection has dropped, but comes back when the system un-freezes (this is based on being in an online game when this freeze has happened, i got a "attempting to connect" dialogue indicating connection problems) I can't figure out any consistency except it seems to happen more often the longer in between restarts, but this isnt 100% true. It happens while playing games, or just watching youtube with the same frequency.
Google lead me to run a chkdsk scan on my windows installation drive. This did reveal that the two partitions had bad sectors. I cloned the partitions onto a new (not out of the box but a spare) HD, ran chkdsk on the new HD and it came back clean. No other problems, so the clone should have gone fine, but the freezing continued.
Next up was memtest86. did one pass and had no errors.
Next was an attempt to test the power supply. I Disabled my DVD burner and one of the HD (one used mostly for storage, not games or windows) to see if lightening the load of the PSU would help. This initially seemed to work, I went for a few hours last night without this issue happening running a game, skype and streaming said game as well. To confirm it was a PSU issue and not that the HD i disconnected was also bad, i ran chkdsk on that, and it also returned errors and said it corrected them. I thought this may have been the problem so re-enabled it and the DVD Drive. I began seeing the freezing again, same as before. I disabled the DVD drive, to see if that was enough. Still freezing. Disabled the same HDD. this time it did NOT stop the freezing. I then tried physically disconnecting the two devices. but I still got the freezing as before.
Then I checked temperatures. Everything seems normal, the only other clue is that when the freeze occurs, my CPU temp jumps from between 25-30C to 40C for just a moment, then returns to normal. Similar things happen with "Temp2" and "Temp3" these go from a normal 40-45C spiking up to 55C(this is per the chart on SpeedFan 4.49) I do have screenshots of the Charts if this will help, I'd just need to know procedure/etiquette for posting images.
Any ideas would be a great help, let me know any other info that may be needed... Thanks in advance, at the end of my rope with this thing, first time a system has defeated me and my google-fu....