freezing( locks up) every few hours, Event ID 41

I will ignore that error then. I did what Koolkat said about removing and putting back some components and so far my computer has not crash for 3 days. I will continue to do some testing. Thanks for your help everybody.

It still freezes.

When I went in safe mode I saw a lot of event ID 7001 and 1014 in the Event Viewer. I am still in the process to see if the computer freezes in safe mode .

When you tried to install Windows on the HDD and test stability with that, did you actually go ahead and disconnect the SDD? You'll need to make sure to do that because even with it being present it'll be enough to trigger instability, regardless if the OS is installed on it or not. Also, have you tried with the SSD only? Who knows, it could be the HDD that's bad here.

As for Prime95, how did you run it, and for how long? Prime95 usually should be run for 7+ hours straight on Blend settings, and then an additional 7+ hour run on Large FFT settings. Depending on the stability of either test we can get a better idea if it's the CPU at fault itself, or something in the CPU-to-RAM crosstalk.

Also, when you say that the system starts freezing up once you start using it but remains stable when idle, what activity are you actually trying to do that triggers the freeze? Sometimes it's best to log what you were doing at the time of a system freeze as there may be patterns involved.

For additional hardware testing, I recommend running Hwinfo on Sensors only option and set it up to log onto a file and let it continue logging till it crashes. Do this twice and send both logs. We might be able to see if there's temperature or voltage instabilities taking place. Also, if you motherboard has onboard graphics, try removing the video card and test stability by running graphics from the onboard video.

It is evident we're dealing with hardware failure, it's just a matter of ascertaining what piece. Unfortunately sometimes this ends up resulting in a process of elimination and slapping potentially bad parts into a stable system to see if it bugs things up.

Yes I did unplug the ssd before installing windows. I tried on the ssd only, on the hdd only and it would still crash. My pc does crash even when idle it just take a little longer. I did put my graphics card in another system. The second pc was fine but mine was still freezing on the integrated graphics . I am doing the tests you ask me I will report back when done. I just have one question. Some people say that gigabyte does not keep the latest driver on their website. So where can I get the latest?

I think I fix my pc driver issue because I am capable of being on idle for days now but when I put prime 95 it freezes in about 20 min with temp of almost 100c. I will go get a h100 and try again.

You don't even need to go that far with liquid cooling, but it's your call. Usually stock coolers are not sufficient enough high loads, and if you were using a 3rd-party cooler, either it was just a really really bad one or most likely you did not install it correctly, like proper application of the thermal paste.

Evidently what we're not dealing with is your graphics, so don't worry about that. Just work on the CPU first. Hopefully there has not been permanent damage to it, otherwise you'll just have to replace it.

Hmm, this is odd. There's gaps in the log where occasionally a sensor is reporting 0, with a number of them doing this. It may just be a software fluke, but I'm a bit leery about it. All other readings look pretty solid from what I've viewed so far.

Which drive is the OSX drive, the SSD or the HDD?