issue with drivers, comp freezing.  

Hello guys,

I'll be short:
My computer is getting freezes for 6-7 months, I had no idea what was the problem so I started to do stuff. (sometimes it freezes daily, then it's gone for weeks, no idea why. I can live with it but would like to fix it)
First I did some stress tests, memtests, etc and nothing came up.
Then I started to switch parts, reinstall OS, multiple times, also updated BIOS, drivers.
I could write so much more what I've tried so far, but now I am 99.99% sure it's a driver-related issue, and I don't know how to trace it or fix it (I've tried driver verifier, found 1 driver (ndisrd.sys) which is a network-helper or something, but after trying the older/newer version of the driver I still got freezes).

So, if we think that only some of the drivers are causing this, what should I do? Please someone with experience give me steps or advice.

(The comp freeze means that only hard reset helps, the screen stops at the last frame and sometimes buzzing noise is coming from the speakers, mostly during games, but happened during youtube..)

My specs are:
2x4 GB RAM, corsair DDR3 1333Mhz
ASUS HD7870 GPU
Intel i7-3770k 2.5GHz CPU
1x SSD with the OS installed, 1x 1TB HDD with stuff on it
700W PSU, coolermaster
ASUS P8H77-M mobo

Also, here are 2 links to my old posts, if you need more information read them or ask me:

Comp freezes and some BSOD, seems random, please give advice

Annoying, weird crashes, CPU or GPU, need advice

Memory is faulty try taking out your memory one by one see if the problem persists

Hercules2142 said:

Memory is faulty try taking out your memory one by one see if the problem persists

thx for trolling

Have you run driver verifier? What should hopefully happen is your PC crashes and creates a minidump file, which will then tell you the faulty driver. I am currently having driver issues but when I use driver verifier my system freezes, rather than crashing, and no minidump files is created.

Framack4 said:

Have you run driver verifier? What should hopefully happen is your PC crashes and creates a minidump file, which will then tell you the faulty driver. I am currently having driver issues but when I use driver verifier my system freezes, rather than crashing, and no minidump files is created.

Yes, I ran driver verifier, but I also had a comp freeze with mashed screen, no dump file. Try to stress only the half of the drivers, then if u get a freeze, uncheck the half of it, and try the quater of it and so on... so u will eventually get to 1 driver (hopefully). That's all I can help. If u find the driver, then update it IMO rather than deleting it.

bigbadwolf said:

Framack4 said:

Have you run driver verifier? What should hopefully happen is your PC crashes and creates a minidump file, which will then tell you the faulty driver. I am currently having driver issues but when I use driver verifier my system freezes, rather than crashing, and no minidump files is created.

Yes, I ran driver verifier, but I also had a comp freeze with mashed screen, no dump file. Try to stress only the half of the drivers, then if u get a freeze, uncheck the half of it, and try the quater of it and so on... so u will eventually get to 1 driver (hopefully). That's all I can help. If u find the driver, then update it IMO rather than deleting it.

Thanks for help. Good luck to you too

Stevy22 said:

Have you Updated your BIOS from the parent Site?

Yes, i had freezes with the latest and the older BIOS also.