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A couple of months ago I had a thread about playing music via foobar and computer freezes. I'm opening a new one because the problem actually seems to be different than posed then. Every couple of weeks or so, while I'm listening to music via foobar or online via Pandora, or watching a streaming video, such as PGA golf yesterday (pgatour.com), the mouse cursor will all of a sudden jump around a little and then the computer freezes. I'll manually shut down, including power, restart and go back to what I was doing (or something similar), and the freeze will soon happen again, maybe two or three times. Maybe the next day too, but at some point they stop for a week or more likely two, even though I continue to listen to music and watch streaming videos.
I don't know if the media playing is directly related or semi-coincidental. I wondered about my pimrary browser, Opera 12, something happening at particular sites, but I got the same freeze yesterday with Firefox 24 and the PGA streaming. Malware scans have been clean, and I did a Win 8 inplace refresh back at the time of the previous thread. I ran Win 8 Manager repair programs a couple of days ago and that fixed something else, but this seems independent of that. Some samples of my Nexus Silent Mouse have had battery duration problems, but the freeze should happen more often if that were it. Short of waiting for 8.1, I'm not sure where to look or what to do. Any ideas? Thanks,
I don't know if the media playing is directly related or semi-coincidental. I wondered about my pimrary browser, Opera 12, something happening at particular sites, but I got the same freeze yesterday with Firefox 24 and the PGA streaming. Malware scans have been clean, and I did a Win 8 inplace refresh back at the time of the previous thread. I ran Win 8 Manager repair programs a couple of days ago and that fixed something else, but this seems independent of that. Some samples of my Nexus Silent Mouse have had battery duration problems, but the freeze should happen more often if that were it. Short of waiting for 8.1, I'm not sure where to look or what to do. Any ideas? Thanks,
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8.1 Pro x64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- DIY
- CPU
- i5 4690K
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK3 (rev. 1.2) UEFI Bios
- Memory
- 16 GB (4x4)
- Graphics Card(s)
- Sapphire Ultimate HD7750
- Sound Card
- JCAT USB
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell U2412M
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1200
- Hard Drives
- Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB SSD
Seagate 3TB, 2TB & 1TB HDDs
- PSU
- Seasonic x650 PSU
- Case
- Cooler Master Elite 335
- Cooling
- Prolimatech Megahalems Rev. C cooler, 3 Nexus Silent Fans
- Keyboard
- IBM Model M
- Mouse
- Bornd Wireless Mouse
- Internet Speed
- 60+ mbps claimed
- Antivirus
- Comodo CIS, MBAM Pro
- Other Info
- PS Audio Directstream dac, Quad 12L powered speakers, Core Audio Tech Kora LPS, JCAT USB card, Uptone Regen USB