Windows 7 x64 freezes randomly and I can't pinpoint the reason

[CuteChihuahua]

Hi all. I built this new PC a week ago and it's giving me problems all this time

It's running perfectly and fast until it suddenly and out of nowhere it freezes up. It doesn't matter what I'm doing or how long the computer has been up, it can happen one minute in or 30 hours in, no matter what program I'm running.

I've tried shuffling drivers around to see if that helps, but no. Ran a chkdsk, no bad sectors, ran a 4 pass memtest check, 0 errors. I did a clean install in the early morning, only installed my wireless internet adapter, the geforce drivers, and chrome, put on a youtube video on loop, went to sleep, and when I woke up it was frozen.

Here is what happens during the freeze... If I'm watching a video, the video will go slow. My mouse (usb) will sometimes either stay frozen for like 5 seconds then move, or will not move at all, and similarly my usb keyboard will either not respond or go crazy and stay stuck in the key I just pressed. Of course I can't do anything in this state so I have to reset.

Here are my parts:

        Operating System
            Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
        CPU
            AMD FX-8320E    21 °C
            Vishera 32nm Technology
        RAM
            16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 802MHz (11-11-11-28)
        Motherboard
            ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. M5A97 LE R2.0 (Socket 942)    34 °C
        Graphics
            ELEFW195 (1360x768@60Hz)
            ASUS VP228 (1920x1080@60Hz)
            2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (PNY)    39 °C
        Storage
            447GB KINGSTON SUV400S37480G ATA Device (SSD)    30 °C
        Optical Drives
            HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH14NS40 ATA Device
        Audio
            High Definition Audio Device

        PSU
            Pixxo Monster 800w

I tried checking the event log but couldn't see anything important. Anyways here are the events prior to me restarting the computer.

http://pastebin.com/Kyi3ewBT

Any help will be really appreciated, I've exhausted all options I tried... only thing left is to try windows 10 or some other system...

 

[Kasoas]

Bad batch of RAM?

 

[CuteChihuahua]

Don't think so, passed the memtest

 

[helpstar]

Check the CPU temp with "amd overdrive", read the thermal margin while running prime95 for about 10min with the option smallfft

check the SSD with its manufacturer tool and update firmware with it
https://www.kingston.com/en/support/technical/ssdmanager

update BIOS of the motherboard inside BIOS using EZ-Flash and the latest version from asus.com

 

[Paul NZ]

4 passes may not be enough run it for a few hrs

Is BIOS 2501 or higher on this?? It needs this BIOS to support that CPU

FX-8320E (FD832EWMW8KHK, 3.2GHz, 8C, 95W,rev.C0,AM3+) ALL 2501

The latest BIOS is 2701

 

[CuteChihuahua]

I was checking the temperature with CPUID HWmonitor while running prime95 and all temperatures were stable and far from overheating.

I checked the SDD with the manager from kingston, it says everything is good and says no firmware updates are needed.

The memtest took about 12 hours to complete the 4 passes which I would hope is kinda enough...

And the BIOS version I've installed is 2701

I'm starting to believe this is a hardware issue, most likely the motherboard, does that make sense?

 

[helpstar]

did you reset the BIOS yet? clrCMOS can help sometimes.

Windows is freshly installed with this hardware?

still think it´s the PSU, but you will have to replace hardware to troubleshoot

 

[CuteChihuahua]

I've an update. I swapped the motherboard a week ago and the problem hasn't happened again since!

Thanks everyone.

 

[helpstar]

Which Board did you get?