Since mid November I have intermittent system freezes on my system. It appears that under different circumstancens (when deleting files on the Raid array, when letting the system go to screen blank) the desktop becomes unresponsive and the moise pointer, which can be still moved, becomes blurry.
This usually happens when the system had been under load for some while (Handbrake), so about 18 hours or so.
In this state, when unresponsive, the only thing I'd need to do is to press the "Shift" key on my keyboard and everything goes back to normal.
It happens with different apps, and I don't know what do do.
What I did was:
- Take out the Adaptec Raid card
- Change RAM's in slots, take less RAM, reduce frequency from 1600 to 1333
- Disabe VT-d (I've VM Ware Workstation installed and there seem to be running some things in the back and I've got error messages)
- I've sent the board to Asus for an RMA, they found nothing, just did a Bios Update
- Re-install the whole system but even the naked system became frozen (HW unchanged).
Let me please ask the following questions:
- Can it be the SSD drive, where the opsys is installed? (Ive got a Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500 Gig, where I have applied this speed patch mid November).
- Can it be the CPU (system was a bit overclocked and Tj was always at the limit)
- Could it be the graphics adapter?
- Can it be a fix that has been applied with the MS November rollup, which doesnt work with my system?
- Which kind of tools could I install in order to log the problem?
- Does someone else have these problems since mid of November?
I would greatly appreciate your help.
This usually happens when the system had been under load for some while (Handbrake), so about 18 hours or so.
In this state, when unresponsive, the only thing I'd need to do is to press the "Shift" key on my keyboard and everything goes back to normal.
It happens with different apps, and I don't know what do do.
What I did was:
- Take out the Adaptec Raid card
- Change RAM's in slots, take less RAM, reduce frequency from 1600 to 1333
- Disabe VT-d (I've VM Ware Workstation installed and there seem to be running some things in the back and I've got error messages)
- I've sent the board to Asus for an RMA, they found nothing, just did a Bios Update
- Re-install the whole system but even the naked system became frozen (HW unchanged).
Let me please ask the following questions:
- Can it be the SSD drive, where the opsys is installed? (Ive got a Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500 Gig, where I have applied this speed patch mid November).
- Can it be the CPU (system was a bit overclocked and Tj was always at the limit)
- Could it be the graphics adapter?
- Can it be a fix that has been applied with the MS November rollup, which doesnt work with my system?
- Which kind of tools could I install in order to log the problem?
- Does someone else have these problems since mid of November?
I would greatly appreciate your help.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro x64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Self built
- CPU
- Intel 3930K
- Motherboard
- Asus P9X79 Deluxe
- Memory
- 8 x Corsair Venegance LP CML16GX3M4A1600C9
- Graphics Card(s)
- PNY GTX 680
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Bitdefender Antivirus Pro 2015