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System Freezes & hangs - possible broken motherboard?
Hi
My system is completely unstable - it regularly hangs/freezes/stalls/makes horrible noises - this can be at any time: during boot-up, when windows is loading, whilst browsing, playing games - there is no consistent trigger.
Last week my PSU went bang and since then it's been far far worse. (replaced it & updated profile specs).
I've been trying to establish the fault and I've done the following:
- Run chkdsk on both hard disks (windows mounted on 1 disk, my docs etc. on disk 2) with no faults
- Run Memtest86+ for about an hour with no faults found
- Run FurMark for about 5 mins with no stability issues/crashing etc (temp got up to about 97c)
I've been trying to run Hot CPU Lite but it always seems to freeze about an hour into the test (if it gets that far).
I'm thinking that it looks like the motherboard is the problem, and the PSU going may have done some additional damage. Unfortunately I don't have a spare one lying around that I can test it with so wanted some opinions before I go spending money I don't have on something I might not need!
Thanks