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[droewyn]

PC Issue Recap

I built the computer in April.  It's a medium-high end gaming rig.  Immediately upon setup, it would freeze randomly.

Go on, Google "Windows 7 randomly freezes" and see how many results you come up with.

* Not a virus, this was a clean install on a newly built computer

Comments

[silveradept]

Here's hoping it's fixed.

[thewayne]

We just left a friend in Colorado who had a really weird problem spring up overnight: something started spawning a bazillion help windows. Reinstalls didn't work, finally determined that the F1 key on his hi-tech gaming keyboard had gone nuts.

I'm really glad that I don't mess much with hardware anymore.

Best of luck to ya!

[amanda_lodden]

Awww, I was hoping you had that problem licked.

[johnpalmer]

Good luck!

You probably don't need me to say this, but your reasoning is sound; hard freezes have to be hardware or system issues - anything running in user mode can't lock up a Windows computer (nor, I'm sure, the equivalent to user mode in a Unix computer, I just can't speak authoritatively for them - don't even know if they only have two modes user/kernel, though I guess they do), certainly not in Win7/8 (nor Vista, but who wants to think of Vista? It's such a *nice* morning!). This is a good score, and a damn good shot at being the fix.

If not - honestly, if it were me (keeping in mind I self-build and can afford to to this) I'd probably swap the motherboard next. (CPU could be at fault, but *all* it does is randomly lock up *sometimes* under *certain* conditions? No.)

[hitchhiker]

fingers crossed!!