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DRyan95

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    Need some serious help with PC freezing while playing games...
    « on: January 18, 2013, 11:28:25 AM »
    I recently built a gaming pc so that I could play the latest games,etc. It seemed to run my games great until it randomly froze up. I thought it was nothing at first, but it keeps happening. The screen usually turns black and there's some kind of audio skip noise, forcing me to hold the power button to shut down. I have checked my temps, they seem to be fine, and my hardware is meant for gaming....so what is going wrong?

    PC SPECS:
    AMD FX 4300
    GTX 650 ti Graphics Card
    Asus MB
    650W Ultra PSU
    650GB HDD Western
    Windows 8 64 bit
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    DaveLembke



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    Re: Need some serious help with PC freezing while playing games...
    « Reply #1 on: January 18, 2013, 02:40:49 PM »
    How much RAM are you running and is it a matched pair etc? Seen memory issues cause this before when games tap into a section of memory that is troubled. If you havent already done so, I'd run Memtest86 on this system. The ISO is free online and can be burned to a CD, DVD, or Thumb Drive.

    Other than that Windows 8 64-bit is still pretty new and maybe there is a driver issue that has a memory leak or something.
    « Last Edit: January 18, 2013, 03:43:16 PM by DaveLembke »
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    DRyan95

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      Re: Need some serious help with PC freezing while playing games...
      « Reply #2 on: January 18, 2013, 03:36:15 PM »
      I have a pair of 4GB RAM (8GB Total) Ill run that program then report back.
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      DRyan95

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        Re: Need some serious help with PC freezing while playing games...
        « Reply #3 on: January 18, 2013, 06:08:09 PM »
        nothing came up with that program
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        Re: Need some serious help with PC freezing while playing games...
        « Reply #4 on: January 19, 2013, 07:57:06 AM »
        Quote from: DRyan95 on January 18, 2013, 06:08:09 PM
        nothing came up with that program

        What does this mean ? ? How long did it run ? ?
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