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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)
“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.”
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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?
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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.
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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.
“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
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glad it worked out! please mark your thread [SOLVED].
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