pc freezes randomly cant find source of problem

[sageza]

hi all

in the last 2 days my pc freezes sometimes,
when i play game's AAA or indie's
when i watch a show/movie
when i'm using windows explorer
when i'm surfing..

i thought it could be my ram so i run a memtest for a entire night, i got 11 passes 0 errors...

my pc specs are

cpu : intel I5-2500k
ram : corsair 2x4096mb
mobo : asrock z68 extreme 4 gen 3
3dcard's : sli 2x nvidia gtx 780
hdd : first one windows boot ssd Crucial m4 CT128M4SSD2 128GB
second one ftp disk Western Digital 1TB WD10EADS-65L5B1
third one samsong HD103uj

if you need more info, tell me.
ill include my MSINFO32 info file

(ps sorry for bad grammar, english is not my first language)

 

[bigmck]

Try doing a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html to a date before you had the problem.

 

[tannim]

My system a few years back had random freezes. I eventually found it was the video card. Some of the capacitors had rounded tops when they should have had flat tops. Some of the stuff inside had popped out. That meant the capacitors were faulty. It worked again after replacing that. Check your capacitors, if you can, for rounded tops. Can be hard to see, though. Use a good flashlight. It could be general hardware failure. Power supply could be having trouble putting out stable voltage, some random wire could be loose hard drive motor could be having trouble.

 

[sageza]

Try doing a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html to a date before you had the problem.

cant do this, i dont have a system restore made before i had the random freezes

My system a few years back had random freezes. I eventually found it was the video card. Some of the capacitors had rounded tops when they should have had flat tops. Some of the stuff inside had popped out. That meant the capacitors were faulty. It worked again after replacing that. Check your capacitors, if you can, for rounded tops. Can be hard to see, though. Use a good flashlight. It could be general hardware failure. Power supply could be having trouble putting out stable voltage, some random wire could be loose hard drive motor could be having trouble.

looked at my 3d card's they are fine

 

[bigmck]

Try doing a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html to a date before you had the problem.

cant do this, i dont have a system restore made before i had the random freezes

You better make youself a note right now so that when you system is fixed, turn on http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/330-system-protection-turn-off.html

 

[sageza]

yea allready done that :/ not much use of it now, but back on problem, i disconnected 1HDD and for the moment its stable, no random freezing for over a houre while i was playing, watching stuff, surfing alt-tabbing etc, could it be that a faulty HDD cause my system instability? and how can i measure/prove it that it indeed is this HDD causing the problems?

 

[bigmck]

yea allready done that :/ not much use of it now, but back on problem, i disconnected 1HDD and for the moment its stable, no random freezing for over a houre while i was playing, watching stuff, surfing alt-tabbing etc, could it be that a faulty HDD cause my system instability? and how can i measure/prove it that it indeed is this HDD causing the problems?

I would give it a couple of days. If things are still good after that time, it would seem the HDD is the problem.

 

[sageza]

allright its getting worse, now i got a bsod, pc trouble - Imgur
and to make it even stranger, c:\windows\minidump is empty.

 

[andrew129260]

Does event viewer under system show any disk related events?

Have you tried replacing the sata cables in your system?

Questions? Please ask

 

[sageza]

I'm at work now, will try it when i get home, i removed one 3d card last night, still bsod, gonne switch them tonight also

it just bsod again so it prolly wasnt my sata or my 3d card... getting really desperate

 

[sageza]

Does event viewer under system show any disk related events?

Questions? Please ask

maybe stupid question but the translation in my head doesnt work to well on technical stuffie's

with even viewer under system, do you mean start button, type event hit enter, then the windows logbooks then system? :x
ifso on the time of my last bsod i only have information level, no critical or errors

but on time of reboot after the bsod i got a error saying "the last shutdown of the system at 22:58:53 on 28/01/2014i s unexpected happened."

and i got a critical saying "The system has rebooted without first shutting down correctly. This error may be caused by the system not responding or is jammed or because the power is out."

i have now replaced all my sata's and exchanged my 3d card again.

 

[andrew129260]

Yup you are correct that is what I meant. Keep an eye on that event viewer, but replacing the sata cables should help.

 

[sageza]

just bsod after i replaced the cable's..; :/
guess it wasnt the sata's nor my other 3d card... getting really desperate

but i just found this in my event log thingie

De sbapifs-service kan vanwege de volgende fout niet worden gestart:
Het systeem kan het opgegeven bestand niet vinden.

the sbapifs-service cant be started due to a error:
the system cant find the designated patch.

 

[ShamrockRig]

What PSU are you using? I'd also highly recommend installing an Anti Virus as well mate, just had a look at your system specs and noticed it said "None"

 

[sageza]

i have a corsair tx650m psu
and i dont have a virusscanner but i do use HouseCall Free Online Virus Scan from trendmicro regulary and i have Malwarebytes Anti-Malware installed

 

[ShamrockRig]

I think it could be the PSU mate, sli 780's require a lot with one 780 being able to take up to 240watts per card im no expert so il leave it for another few peoples advice mate, also id highly recommend downloaded an antivirus like Avast!

 

[sageza]

if it was the psu then why does it bsod on one card? :x and my pc was fine the first few months i got the cards.

and this site (eXtreme Outer Vision - eXtreme tools for computer enthusiasts) calculate's that i need a minimum psu of 591 W and a recommended psu of 641watt
so i think its safe to say i'm good on the psu

edit: and i'll take your advice on avast

 

[ShamrockRig]

Yeah hence why i said "im not an expect" it was just a possibility, could be the PSU on its way out even though it is a solid psu, everything can have faults.

 

[andrew129260]

Based off the information here (dont run the "free" scanner on there site, just look at the info-

Sbapifs.sys driver | What is Sbapifs.sys file?

It seems its related to symantec. Do you have norton antivirus on your machine?

sbapifs.sys Windows process - What is it?

This site says it belongs to viper antivirus.

What antivirus software do you use?

Run a clean boot/startup by running through this tutorial:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ation-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html

Leave it like that for a bit, any difference? Does it still freeze?

 

[sageza]

allright so it was really working on my nerve i did a clean reinstall for windows

still bsod

so now i'm pretty sure its not software problem...