Hello,
Some time ago I brought my PC to a technician because it would not boot at all, when I pressed the power button the components turned on but nothing was actually displayed on my screen. He told me the motherboard was shorting because I had badly installed it in my case, and my CPU wasn't correctly installed either. After I installed it back home I decided to make a fresh start and reinstalled windows. Everything was fine until I noticed my computer froze once or maybe twice when I was installing some programs, I didn't mind at the time, but since I installed some games I noticed my computer was freezing after a few minutes in game.
I started looking for fixes and found this:
https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/solved-windows-10-freezes-locks-up-randomly-easily/So I tried:
-Updating my drivers: everything is up to date, even my BIOS.
-Running a memory check: no errors.
-Resetting my virtual memory: nothing.
-Checked my hard drives: no errors.
-Running a system file checker: everything is fine.
-Disabling C-states: actually worsened the situation, I couldn't get to my OS (maybe froze between the BIOS loading thingy and the OS showing).
I came to the conclusion that my hardware was actually at fault, but I can't be sure as when I monitor my hardware with HWMonitor I can't see anything suspicious: temperatures are normal, fans are spinning etc. But my pc keeps freezing (and I mean
freezing, no shutting down, no reboot, just my screen displaying the same frame forever without sound or any component shutting down either) after a few minutes in games and even on windows sometime when I was moving some folders through my hard drives if that means anything. I have read somewhere that it could be my crappy PSU, but it could be that my motherboard is still shorting I guess. I haven't considered my GPU or CPU being responsible as they both run pretty normally and are of good quality unlike my PSU.
I'll write down my specs, help me please, I could buy a new PSU myself but I'd rather not throw 100€ on a PSU if I'm not sure it is responsible.
- OS: Windows 10, 64, Pro N.
- MB: MSI Gaming 970
- CPU: AMD fx-9590
- RAM: 8 Gb DDR3
- GPU: GTX 970
- PSU: Xilence 600W
- HD: SSD 120g (My OS), SATA 500g (If i recall correctly)
No, english is not my first language, also, I can provide more precise infos about my rig if necessary.
PS: Tomorrow I'll try powering my GPU with my 600W PSU only and the rest of the components with a spare PSU, stop me now if you think it's a bad idea. I will also run a benchmark.
