Freezing During Games original, now More Often.


  1. Posts : 2
    Windows 7
       #1

    Freezing During Games original, now More Often.


    Hey guys, new to the forum and trying to solve a really odd problem. I've got a build that has been running smoothly for a while and over the last month or two I've started getting random crashes during gaming. It will either be an audio-loop frozen screen, or sometimes a brown screen that hangs for a minute then "display driver crashed" and it kicks back in after an alt-tab. Recently it has been freezing solid in games and forcing multiple restarts.

    I will drop my event viewer and crash reports here. I am honestly pretty stumped. I thought maybe:
    my PSU is dying? it's older
    My original SSD (I have 3...) is dying? it's older
    My additional 8GB (2x4) sticks of RAM that I added in a few months ago are bad? I ran Memtest for 3 consecutive nights and had no Errors on 3-4 passes through each time.

    Otherwise I am completely stumped. I updated my Intel Rapid Storage Driver from Asrock's site.
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  2. Posts : 7,050
    Windows 10 Pro
       #2

    Hi cmaxvt,

    Welcome to the 7forums and apologies for the delay.

    Are you still in need of help?
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  3. Posts : 2
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Hey no worries and thanks for replying. I have another thread going on another forum which I guess is rude to post, so I wont.

    But I still am having occasional issues.. it is looking more and more like Hardware. Hilariously since updating my Soundblaster Z soundcard drivers from a driver signed 11/7/2014 to 12/14/2014 I haven't had any hard crashes in a week straight of use, but it could just be the games I'm playing.

    I do occasionally get these little lag spurts that seem to be the OS stalling, which leads me to keep thinking it may be the older SSD I keep my OS on.
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