Lately I've been having a problem with my computer crashing for seemingly no reason. It all started when the hurricane happened and the power was out for 4 or so days. Leading up to the power outage there was a couple surges which might have created a problem for my hardware. I have no idea.
When I crash, it will sometimes just completely freeze on whatever I was doing and requiring a hard reset, or it will bsod also requiring a hard reset. When that happens I was under the impression that it was a memory or motherboard failure but I booted to a memtest and it came up clean.
I've ruled out a problem with the PSU since I would assume if it was failing it would just shut off the computer. Ive had problems with my GPU overheating in the past but temps are always fine up until a bsod.
I'm not really sure how to go about figuring out the problem. Any thoughts?
EDIT: Windows 7
When I crash, it will sometimes just completely freeze on whatever I was doing and requiring a hard reset, or it will bsod also requiring a hard reset. When that happens I was under the impression that it was a memory or motherboard failure but I booted to a memtest and it came up clean.
I've ruled out a problem with the PSU since I would assume if it was failing it would just shut off the computer. Ive had problems with my GPU overheating in the past but temps are always fine up until a bsod.
I'm not really sure how to go about figuring out the problem. Any thoughts?
EDIT: Windows 7
Last edited by Mutantbear (2011-09-08 08:07:53)
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