Windows 7 64bit is freezing

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Windows 7 is freezing. I have had it freeze while watching youtube. It freezes mostly right after I have logged in and its loading the startup programs. It is freezing all the time when I run Starcraft 2. Starcraft 2 can be in campaign mode, multiplayer mode, or just in the menue and it will freeze. The only way out of it is a hard reset in any of the cases. Usually what happens is I run starcraft 2 and it freezes about 5 to 10 mins in. I do a hard reset and then it freezes after login when it is loading up. Then I do another hard reset and it runs fine again.... well until i run starcraft 2 or it just decides to freeze on me. My keyboard's lcd screen shows that one of the cores of my cpu maxes out everytime it freezes while the other 3 cores are running normally or not at all. I am thinking its a windows problem or a hardware problem and not a problem with starcraft 2. It just happens with starcraft 2 100% of the time. I have updated all of my drivers. Win 7 is up to date. all virus software is up to date and runs weekly. I have tried reinstalling sc2... still freezes. It has been doing this since Saturday. The one change i made was I installed an additional 500gb wd blue hdd for more backup space. Please any help or ideas you could give me would be grately apreciated.

specs:
win 7 64bit
intel ssd 75gb
gtx 470
rampage 2 extreme mobo
intel i7 920 @ 4ghz (water cooled)
6gb corsair ram
HDDs: WD 500gb, WD 250gb, WD 500gb blue(new one)
850w thermaltake ps
 
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ok, i can tell you it is not the power supply or the motherboard or the video card or the overclock. going through the same problem here. these are all things that i have replaced in trying to solve the problem. i believe the problem to be AHCI. try going back to IDE mode in BIOS (you wont need to disable anything in windows) and see if you can get stability. if you can, then you and i are in the same boat. then we need to find out how to re-enable AHCI so that we can get the benefits of that without these terrorizing random freezes. i knew me and you were in the same boat when you said that it happens most often (consistently) if you leave your pc at the log in screen for a bit. good luck.

q6600, biostar tp45hp, hd5770, 25-m ssd, win764
 
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Not working: Hard freeze on me again. I just bought minecraft and i ran it. 5 mins into the game and it froze. Only way out of it was a hard reboot. Everything is still set to stock and the game is installed on a 500gb wd hdd. not the ssd that win 7 is on.
 
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under load at stock speed: 40 - 45 c. swifttech water cooling system apogee gt

thermaltake power supply 850 watt. toughpower. modular. sleeved. and has the three lights on the side of it.

oh and yes, when running games.
 
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Everything is at stock and it is freezing. One thing i did notice, It just froze while playing minecraft again, is that the music kept on playing even though the computer was completely frozen. it did its loop and stopped playing.
 
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So i just ran furmark gpu tester. and yes it froze while testing. the temps maxed at 94c and went back down to 90c and stayed there averaging about 87fps. 3mins 12 secs in it froze.
 
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