Hey guys,
So I'm coming to you guys to try and find me a solution to fixing my PC. As the best solution I can think of thus far is to go out and buy a sledgehammer. You know, check all the connections are tight with it......
I've had a lot of problems with my rig since I built it at Christmas just gone. It just seems to break itself, then sometimes miraculously it will fix itself as well. At one point my pc would boot up but it wouldn't let me play any games. SO, did some troubleshooting and found out my graphics card wasn't working. Just simply, not on. As though it wasn't even plugged in. I touched absolutely nothing towards it, then suddenly it just turned on. Fans started going and games could run again. I did nothing towards it. So I didn't complain as it was working fine again. This happened a good few months ago now. Not happened again recently.
However recently, everything crashes. Chrome. Games. Everything. Games seem to break themselves without me touching a thing. One day they work, the next they will play for 5 minutes, then just crash. The bios will tell me I'm overclocked (4.5ghz at 1.35v), yet in windows I'm still on stock clocks and the temperatures would back that up (max temp on load of about 42-43 with D14 on 2600k). Games freeze at different times. For example BF3 can be fairly stable for most the time, then once or twice a day it will just stop working. However, other games like Just Cause 2 will freeze at every attempt to play the game. Then again, GTA IV had constant freezing problems, which I have now fixed, and I can play it for as long as I like and it won't crash. This is what confuses me so much.
So, I have tried everything so far. New drivers, cleared cmos, updated and verified game files, reinstalled games completely, tried old GPU drivers, tried beta GPU drivers, tried brand new GPU drivers.
The only thing I have yet to try is a clean install of windows. I've spoken to a friend and that's all he can think of doing to get it to work. However, I have been putting off this idea as if I was going to do this, I'd like to just reinstall all games as well. (OS on SSD and games on a different HDD). This would then assure me that everything is fresh as could be and I couldn't do anything to change it. The only downside to this is that I have fairly slow internet and it takes me the best part of a day to download one game. That's the main reason I've put it off as long as possible as it would take an unbelievable amount of time to get my pc back to 'normal' so to say (all games and programs back on that I'd like). The reason I'm doing this now is that I bought Ghost Recon Future Soldier this morning and have been downloading it all day to find out that I cannot play it for longer than 5-6 minutes without it crashing. I've had enough and want my computer just to function properly.
So what I'm here to ask is, would the clean install of windows be the answer or is there anything else I can do to fix my computer's constant crashes. If there's any other information you guys want about the crashes or my rig then just ask. I just want my pc to work as it should now...
So I'm coming to you guys to try and find me a solution to fixing my PC. As the best solution I can think of thus far is to go out and buy a sledgehammer. You know, check all the connections are tight with it......
I've had a lot of problems with my rig since I built it at Christmas just gone. It just seems to break itself, then sometimes miraculously it will fix itself as well. At one point my pc would boot up but it wouldn't let me play any games. SO, did some troubleshooting and found out my graphics card wasn't working. Just simply, not on. As though it wasn't even plugged in. I touched absolutely nothing towards it, then suddenly it just turned on. Fans started going and games could run again. I did nothing towards it. So I didn't complain as it was working fine again. This happened a good few months ago now. Not happened again recently.
However recently, everything crashes. Chrome. Games. Everything. Games seem to break themselves without me touching a thing. One day they work, the next they will play for 5 minutes, then just crash. The bios will tell me I'm overclocked (4.5ghz at 1.35v), yet in windows I'm still on stock clocks and the temperatures would back that up (max temp on load of about 42-43 with D14 on 2600k). Games freeze at different times. For example BF3 can be fairly stable for most the time, then once or twice a day it will just stop working. However, other games like Just Cause 2 will freeze at every attempt to play the game. Then again, GTA IV had constant freezing problems, which I have now fixed, and I can play it for as long as I like and it won't crash. This is what confuses me so much.
So, I have tried everything so far. New drivers, cleared cmos, updated and verified game files, reinstalled games completely, tried old GPU drivers, tried beta GPU drivers, tried brand new GPU drivers.
The only thing I have yet to try is a clean install of windows. I've spoken to a friend and that's all he can think of doing to get it to work. However, I have been putting off this idea as if I was going to do this, I'd like to just reinstall all games as well. (OS on SSD and games on a different HDD). This would then assure me that everything is fresh as could be and I couldn't do anything to change it. The only downside to this is that I have fairly slow internet and it takes me the best part of a day to download one game. That's the main reason I've put it off as long as possible as it would take an unbelievable amount of time to get my pc back to 'normal' so to say (all games and programs back on that I'd like). The reason I'm doing this now is that I bought Ghost Recon Future Soldier this morning and have been downloading it all day to find out that I cannot play it for longer than 5-6 minutes without it crashing. I've had enough and want my computer just to function properly.
So what I'm here to ask is, would the clean install of windows be the answer or is there anything else I can do to fix my computer's constant crashes. If there's any other information you guys want about the crashes or my rig then just ask. I just want my pc to work as it should now...
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