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whitewizard

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Registered: 2013-12-08

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[SOLVED] System Freezes

My desktop has developed a tendency to completely freeze. It's not quite random, there is a pattern to it. It freezes almost immediately when I use applications like Minecraft, Steam, or even Dwarf Fortress(so I don't think flash is the problem). It freezes on YouTube (on Chromium and Firefox), and even sometimes when I'm browsing random websites on Chromium. It will eventually freeze even if I do none of these things, it just takes several hours to do so. This problem has been plagueing me for weeks and I really need some help.

Specs:
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0.
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GT 520

Last edited by whitewizard (2014-01-02 04:04:12)

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ondoho

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Registered: 2013-04-30

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Re: [SOLVED] System Freezes

am i right to assume that all these applications are resource hungry (memory, mostly)?
have you checked if one of your memory chips is faulty?

mosquitogang201

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Registered: 2012-06-19

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] System Freezes

Not sure if it is related to your problem or not but one of my computers has been freezing with the 3.12 series kernels. Usually happens a few hours after booting. I had to revert to the linux-lts kernel on that computer.

whitewizard

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Registered: 2013-12-08

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Re: [SOLVED] System Freezes

Thank you ondoho.

I ran memtest86 and there were no problems with my memory, but afterwards I checked my BIOS settings and found something.
The motherboard was trying to run my 1333MHz chip at 1600MHz. This was the problem. Everything is working perfectly now.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
- Douglas Adams

ondoho

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Registered: 2013-04-30

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Re: [SOLVED] System Freezes

glad it worked out! please mark your thread [SOLVED].