My sons PC has recently started to freeze randomly, during playing games. The whole system just freezes, and only a reset can fetch it back.
Its a self built system, that's been running OK for ages.
Specs..
AMD FX6300 CPU, AMD RX570 GPU, 16Gb RAM, Gigabyte GA970a ds3-p MOBO. 1Tb WD HDD 500W PSU. Windows 10 V2004
the system did have an AMD Athlon X3 CPU until christmas when it was changed out for the FX6300.
tried all kinds of things to cure this, updating graphics drivers to most recent versions etc. all to no avail. Games tend to freeze after around 10mins of gameplay
The games he is playing are on the Roblox platform, but not all games freeze up. There is no warning about this. Occ does this with Minecraft as well.
I did think it was an overheating issue, and as the case was rather small, I upgraded the case, and also bought a coolermaster evo cooler for the CPU, as it was tending to run a little hot at around 65 to 70degrees. Now tops out at 35-40degrees under load. GPU sits at around 65 degrees.
Oddly enough tonight, I got him to play a game he had installed on the system, and he had no issues. The game was cranked up to its max resolution of 1080P.
He can also watch 1080p videos full screen on you tube with no issues.
I am more than a little stumped as to the cause of this, and I am fast running out of ideas. I am more suspecting software rather than hardware, but if anyone has any ideas I would be grateful.
I thought I would run some stress tests on the components. CPU seemed OK. Ran FurMark for the GPU and also no freezes during either benchmarking or Stress testing at 100% of GPU power. Ran an HDD test and oddly enough got a Caution on the SMART test using CrystalDisk Info, and HDD tester. Am I looking at an impending HDD failure??. Also I have just been told that when he is playing games that dont crash, he gets random 3 beeps through his headphones (wired). Are these MOBO beeps. The system appears to POST correctly, and as far as I am aware the UEFI is up to date. Could this be a memory issue??
Its a self built system, that's been running OK for ages.
Specs..
AMD FX6300 CPU, AMD RX570 GPU, 16Gb RAM, Gigabyte GA970a ds3-p MOBO. 1Tb WD HDD 500W PSU. Windows 10 V2004
the system did have an AMD Athlon X3 CPU until christmas when it was changed out for the FX6300.
tried all kinds of things to cure this, updating graphics drivers to most recent versions etc. all to no avail. Games tend to freeze after around 10mins of gameplay
The games he is playing are on the Roblox platform, but not all games freeze up. There is no warning about this. Occ does this with Minecraft as well.
I did think it was an overheating issue, and as the case was rather small, I upgraded the case, and also bought a coolermaster evo cooler for the CPU, as it was tending to run a little hot at around 65 to 70degrees. Now tops out at 35-40degrees under load. GPU sits at around 65 degrees.
Oddly enough tonight, I got him to play a game he had installed on the system, and he had no issues. The game was cranked up to its max resolution of 1080P.
He can also watch 1080p videos full screen on you tube with no issues.
I am more than a little stumped as to the cause of this, and I am fast running out of ideas. I am more suspecting software rather than hardware, but if anyone has any ideas I would be grateful.
I thought I would run some stress tests on the components. CPU seemed OK. Ran FurMark for the GPU and also no freezes during either benchmarking or Stress testing at 100% of GPU power. Ran an HDD test and oddly enough got a Caution on the SMART test using CrystalDisk Info, and HDD tester. Am I looking at an impending HDD failure??. Also I have just been told that when he is playing games that dont crash, he gets random 3 beeps through his headphones (wired). Are these MOBO beeps. The system appears to POST correctly, and as far as I am aware the UEFI is up to date. Could this be a memory issue??