Random PC freezes 2

[Tolis21]

Hey there. It's been a year since i visited this page. Unluckily i need your help again.
I am having some problems with my pc recently. What happens is that while i am using my pc it sometimes freezes and nothing responds so i have to manually restart it. It happens 2-3 times everyday and it has happened while i was doing random things, like using google chrome, firefox, skype.

I have posted the zip file with the results of the diagnostic tool. By the way i had the error stated in the faq
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/92394-sf-diagnostic-tool-using-troubleshooting.html
and i runed the diagnostic tools one by one and the error came up at minidump.

I had experienced the same freezes about one year ago. Here is the link of my old thread http://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-help-support/213334-random-pc-freezes.html . (have a look at pages 1-9, pages 9-12 are related to another problem that occured, different to the one i have right now).

After many tests and posts we found out that the problem was related to my gpu. I sent my pc to the store i bought it and they told me that the gpu was destroyed due to a voltage drop. So i bought a new gpu and everything was ok until now. The thing is that i have bought a ups since then.. so any voltage drops can't harm my pc now i guess. So i don't believe the problem is related to my gpu this time.


Hope we find a solution. Thanks in advance.

 

[Pauly]

There are no dump files in your upload, you can manually check C:\windows\minidump to see if any are there

 

[Tolis21]

In that folder there are only dumps that were created last year. There aren't any new ones. Is there any other way i can create minidumps?

 

[Pauly]

No they are only generated during a crash
You could try enabling driver verifier to stress out the system drivers which may create a crash but only if the root cause of your problem is driver related
http://www.sevenforums.com/crash-lo...-driver-verifier-identify-issues-drivers.html
Or you could try running a stress test to work the machine a bit but if you do i would advise you monitor temps during the test and dont leave unattended
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/100352-hardware-stress-test-prime95.html

 

[Tolis21]

The last 2 days i did the tests you told me to.

I tested the driver verifier for about 42 hours continiously and my pc was kinda laggy but no freeze or crash happened. Before the test i usually had a freeze every 2-4 hours.

I also did 2 stress tests with Prime95. I runned the Small FFTs first for about 2 hours and then the Blend test for about two hours. Both of them passed and no crash or freeze happened.

 

[Pauly]

Ok thats kinda good and bad news i suppose
Machine lagging is normal and expected, its just the result of verifier running

Not sure the best way to proceed, if you want to be proactive you could run more hardware tests or just wait to see how it develops

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105647-ram-test-memtest86.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html
Hard Drive Diagnostic Procedure
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/100356-video-card-stress-test-furmark.html

 

[Tolis21]

For the last 4 days i didn't have any freeze and my pc seems stable. I did the stress test with furmark and in 4 minutes it reached 98 oC so i stoped it.

The freezes happened after i updated my nvidia gpu drivers. But after i reinstalled them the problem wasn't fixed.

Nevermind.. i am marking this thread as solved. In case of a new freeze i will inform you =P
Thanks for the help

 

[Pauly]

Good news hopefully the problem is resolved

 

[Tolis21]

Hallo there again. It seems the problem wasn't fixed. So yesterday and today i had freezes again. What also happend 2 other times is this. I experienced some ''mini-freezes''. By that i mean that my pc was freezing every 1-3 minutes for about 6-7 seconds. I waited to see if it would stop but it wouldn't so i restarted it.

So any ideas? Should i try and do the tests you told me to in your previous reply?

 

[Pauly]

Personally i would try rolling back the gfx driver to a good stable release (306.97)

Hardware tests listed above are an option but what about that gpu temperature from before that is kinda worrying have you cleaned lately ?

Could also try http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ation-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html this may be applicable/useful to your situation

 

[Tolis21]

I cleaned my pc today. It has been a year since i last cleaned it. There was some dust in the fans but i have seen it worse xD. After i cleaned it i runned two tests with FunMark in 2 resolutions. I am attaching some screenshots i took

 

[Pauly]

Temps are slightly better but not great, the max temp listed for your card is 99C so i would expect it to start throttling back at the kind of temps you are seeing

http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-560/specifications

 

[Tolis21]

I don't believe the freezes are related to the gpu temperatures. When i runned the tests the fan was spinning very fast and it was noisy, i have never heard my pc making that sounds.
When i get a freeze i usually have only Google Chrome and Skype running, so my gpu is far away from reaching it's limits.

 

[Pauly]

I know what your saying but 93-98 is your cards limit it may be a seperate issue but it is an issue i think

How did you get on with older driver and/or clean boot any progress

 

[Tolis21]

The past few days i didn't experience any freeze so i didn't check the older drive or the clean boot process. Today i experienced the mini freezes effect explained in a previous post. So it happened after i used a script in firefox. The scripts name is hommk gold (HOMMK - Gold Finder - by Dragon Azur) and i use it in a browser game i played. I realised that most of the times the freezes occured, they occured after i used this script. Since the last time i used it i didn't have any freeze, but after 2 minutes after i used it today the freezes occured.

So can this be a coincidence or not?

 

[Tolis21]

Today i had a freeze and my pc wasn't responding so i manually restarted it. After i restarted it a message popud up saying i had a bluescreen, some useful info about the freeze and some useful files. By this freeze a minidump was created. I am attaching it

 

[Pauly]

Please run the sf tool grab all again so we can have all the current files

 

[Tolis21]

i am still getting the error when i run the sf diagnostic tools at minidump. should i run and send you the results of the other tests of sf diagnostic tool?

 

[Pauly]

Yes please

 

[Tolis21]

i am attaching the results from the sf diagnostic tool. The minidump test wasn't done again, but i have posted the minidump file 2 days ago in the Desktop.rar