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Random freezes / system lock ups when playing games or watching vids
Hi all, I've been lurking here for awhile as I've had an annoying problem, and even though similar people seem to have had similar issues everything I have tried is to no avail.
The problem is that I will get a system lock up, or freeze when playing games like Portal 2 or FM2012. The freezes are very random however they occur the most when trying to play Co-op in Portal 2 (say about 80% of the time when trying to play it). However with the likes of FM2012 or other games, I can literally play for hours on end without a crash, but other times a crash could happen within about 5 mins.
I also seem to randomly crash if I watch a HD video in full screen (1920x1080) however I cannot recall such a problem watching it minimized (using VLC). I also used to get random crashes while browsing the internet on certain websites, however I haven't had this issue since upgrading my RAM.
When the PC does crash, the monitor will just black out and if sound was playing at the time it will usually loop or repeat. The only thing I can do is a hard reboot and upon restarting the PC it will say about the unexpected shut down and to start windows normally however I don't seem to get any minidumps. I've had this problem now for quite awhile, and at first it was something I just overlooked as a random occurance but now its starting to drive me crazy!
My system specs are as follows: (built about a year ago)
CPU: i7 2600k
Mobo: Asus P8P67 Deluxe
Ram: GSkill 8 GB (2 x 4gb)
Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 6950
HDD: Seagate 500gb
PSU: XFX 850W Black Edition Modular PSU
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
The things I've tried:
Upgrading RAM & PSU. I originally thought it could of been a power problem or possibly a RAM problem, so I upgraded both RAM & PSU as my old ones were cheaper value models. The problems do seem to occur abit less often and I no longer crash while browsing the internet, however I still get the same problem. I could also play Portal 2 more often without it crashing, where as before I could pretty much not play it online.
I've tried Driver Verifier, and did get a BSOD, however found this was to do with Daemon which I have now uninstalled. The problem still persists and driver verifier now shows no errors.
Graphics card drivers are all upto date, as are most other drivers.
Temperatures also seem decent, however I'm not to sure on how these should look so could be wrong.
The only other thing of note would be I can't recall getting any of these problems when I was using my old 17" monitor, but surely my newer 23" wouldn't be causing the problems? It has been about 6 months or so though so my memory could be deceiving me.
Anyhows I hope somebody could shed some light, I've included the requested attachments however the dumps in there are old I beleive and might not of been from the problem I'm having now.
Many Thanks! :)