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so let’s see if the huge nerd circle of etf2l can help me
my pc started randomly freezing around a month ago, used to be once every couple of days and now it’s twice a day or more.
Rock made me run tests to see if it was the ram and it seems it’s not, same for the hard disk. I formatted two days ago and it didn’t fix the problem. I ran antiviruses, defragmentated twice. It’s not a heat problem because I changed cpu cooler recently and the temperatures are fine. Also it always freezes when I’m derping on windows and never when I’m playing.
Help me herp, gotta fix this in a week cause I’ll leave for holidays and won’t be back til i49, I don’t plan on spending time at lan rebooting my pc
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could literally be anything, from a malfunctioning motherboard to an instable power line

you say this only happens when you’re not playing games, which seems to suggest its related to cpu idling – does your bios have settings to throttle cpu speed etc? try turning that off, see if it changes anything

Quoted from Spike Himself

could literally be anything, from a malfunctioning motherboard to an instable power line

you say this only happens when you’re not playing games, which seems to suggest its related to cpu idling – does your bios have settings to throttle cpu speed etc? try turning that off, see if it changes anything

we did it and nope, froze once while on standby and a second time 5 minutes ago

Quoted from Freddy

I had kinda the same issue once, and it turned out PSU was faulty (that PSU had already resulted in a faulty HDD because it was made by morons and spiked too much). I would try testing each wire from your PSU with a multimeter to test if it’s spiking and falling too much – and with that I mean leave the power on to all the other components than the one where you’re testing the wire.
Write each average voltage, highest spike, lowest drop and so on for each wire down on a piece of paper, or maybe even take pictures of the multimeter showing spikes/whatever. If it turns out that it is faulty, you have those pictures as evidence and the warranty will most likely have to cover it if you send the PSU back to the manufacturer.

Going too much over and under the specified voltage are both bad things, and can definately cause for example freezes like you experience.
But if it turns out that this is the case and you need a new one quickly and cba to wait for the manufacturer to take care of their shit, just buy a new one. Having your computer run at all with a shitty PSU can be a death sentence for other components (I’m looking at you, my old HDD).

this happens when you buy cheap PSUs like from 15 to 30/40€ not when you buy a corsair (this doesn’t mean corsairs are good, but still they’re far better than a cheap PSU), besides this, a try shouldn’t be a bad idea