Computer Randomly Freezes (gaming/web-browsing/being idle)

Can you post the brand and model name or number of the power supply (PSU).

Download then run Speccy (free) and post the resultant url for us, details here, this will provide us with information about your computer hardware + any software that you have installed that may explain the present issue/s.

To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:

In Speccy, click File, and then click Publish Snapshot.

In the Publish Snapshot dialog box, click Yes to enable Speccy to proceed.

Speccy publishes the profile and displays a second Publish Snapshot. You can open the URL in your default browser, copy it to the clipboard, or close the dialog box.

Your computer is about to go into meltdown

The CPU is badly overheating and you have almost zeroed out of free storage space on one or more drives, the 1TB Hitachi HDD is showing imminent failure.

Any idea why your RAM is not working in triple channel.

The thermal cut off trigger for your CPU is 67.9°C so your CPU is still too hot I`m afraid, this could be as a result of it being overworked by the demands being placed on it by the storage devices that are choking, taking just the most important for now, the Windows boot device;

Partition 1
Partition ID: Disk #1, Partition #1
Disk Letter: C:
File System: NTFS
Volume Serial Number: 30EE9F98
Size: 73 GB
Used Space: 68 GB (92%)
Free Space: 5.34 GB (8%)

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For Windows to be able to run efficiently and to be able to update you need to have between 20 and 25% of the partition or drive available on a HDD and an SSD between 10 and 15% as free storage space at all times, if you don`t you risk Windows becoming corrupt or not being able to update which puts you at risk of malware attack.

Data only storage devices should not be allowed to get any lower than 10% of free storage space of the full capacity of the drive/partition on the drive, this also to avoid data corruption.

Please note that storage devices can physically fail if the amount of free storage space is allowed to drop below the required 10 or 20/25% minimum.

Uninstall as many unused programs, games, videos and music files as you can and get yourself another means of backing up to, post back when you have between 20 and 25% free storage space on the C: drive/partition and we can go from there.

In answer to your follow up question, mechanical HDDs will start having issues when the temps get to circa 50°C and being that the Hitachi is well below that heat is 100% not the cause of the warning and being that there is no partition information and the state of your other storage devices the chances are that the warning is being caused by data corruption as in data being overwritten etc, sort out the C: first and don`t save or update anything until we have given the drive/s a clean bill of health.

We will do a separate check on the Hitachi once the other drives are safe.

The CPU temp has now dropped from 64 °C to a more respectable 44 °C so freeing p the space has already helped.

Any further random freezes.

Any other partitions that are low on free storage space need to be sorted asap.

Post another speccy report.

Have a suspension that you have ran low on storage again.

Best thing to do is REPLACE the C drive with no smaller than 250 GB.

The CPU is still overheating.

The Windows boot drive too small.

One known to be failing drive.

In addition to the above, we can now see a Seagate Backup+ SL SCSI Disk Device, you don't want to be adding any more load to an already struggling PC, disconnect the USB drive or risk losing it along with the rest of the hardware.

Bobo said:

PSU: TX850M Corsair

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Do you have a link to the exact model of PSU and can you tell us how old the unit is that you have.

Decent enough PSU that is still under warranty so would only suggest that you check that all the modular cables are securely attached to both the PSU and associated hardware.

When was the last time that the insides were cleaned out of heat trapping dust, the heatsink fins in particular.

Suggest that with the exception of the boot drive you take all the other drives offline, do this when you intend to shutdown the PC for the night, next time you boot up before doing anything else run Speccy and upload the new url for us if you will.

Bobo said:

it did crash twice again today

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Software such as Windows can crash and when it does crash you get a BSOD and when enabled a crash dmp is generated, programs or games when they crash can on occasion close to the desktop but the computer will still be 100% functional.

Hardware failure such as a weak power supply and/or overheating are not software related and when a computer for example suddenly turns off, freezes or the screen goes black etc the behaviour should be described as the "computer shut down unexpectedly" or froze etc and not as having crashed as the latter implies a software issue as opposed to an obvious hardware issue when described properly.

Having the correct info means that helpers will not be looking for a software issue when the problem is clearly hardware related.

So that we are clear as to what happened, did the PC blue screen, the screen turn black or did the PC just turn off altogether etc.

The CPU, GPU and MB temps are a lot lower in the latest Speccy report, was Speccy run before or after the cleaning and subsequent problem occuring.