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Computer randomly keeps freezing

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  • 05-07-2015 12:04am
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    Battleflag
    Registered Users Posts: 856 ✭✭✭


    Built my own PC back in November and never had issues up until the last few days. The computer seems to freeze randomly. It has happened when playing a video or browsing facebook but generally when I'm using a browser.

    Have checked if all my drivers are up to date and can't seem to spot anything. Anyone have any advice? Can't see anything in event viewer. Hardware fault?


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    mordeith
    Registered Users Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    Battleflag wrote: »
    Built my own PC back in November and never had issues up until the last few days. The computer seems to freeze randomly. It has happened when playing a video or browsing facebook but generally when I'm using a browser.

    Have checked if all my drivers are up to date and can't seem to spot anything. Anyone have any advice? Can't see anything in event viewer. Hardware fault?

    Could be a RAM issue. Run Memtest to check for errors.


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    Cork boy 55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    Battleflag wrote: »
    Built my own PC back in November and never had issues up until the last few days. The computer seems to freeze randomly. It has happened when playing a video or browsing facebook but generally when I'm using a browser.

    Have checked if all my drivers are up to date and can't seem to spot anything. Anyone have any advice? Can't see anything in event viewer. Hardware fault?

    Anti virus software running updates?


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    Battleflag
    Registered Users Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Battleflag


    mordeith wrote: »
    Could be a RAM issue. Run Memtest to check for errors.
    Ran memtest there and no errors were found
    Cork boy 55 wrote: »
    Anti virus software running updates?
    Nope no scan was running, last scan was last week.

    Funnily enough I was playing City Skylines for a few hours yesterday and the computer didn't freeze for the entire time I was playing yet when I went on the internet it froze after about 15 minutes twice. Might try Firefox for a bit a see if it continues


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    Crimson King
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    Have you installed anything new recently? Could be a driver issue


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    Battleflag
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    Crimson King wrote: »
    Have you installed anything new recently? Could be a driver issue
    None that I can think of. Have rolled back the GPUs driver to a previous version and have been using Firefox for the past hour with no crashes. No idea what was causing it


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