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Random Lockup/Freeze NO BSOD
Seeing as I don't ever get a a BSOD I took it that I couldn't post in the BSOD thread.
Important thing to note is when it occurs.
1. Fail to start right from turning on (no BIOs splash screen). Although this is rare and has only happened a few times.
2. Lockup on loading up Windows login. (it will freeze on the circling load in graphic).
3. Can run for like an hour or more in Windows and then I get audio stutter and freeze from like 1 - 30 s then the system continues on it's merry way just fine. Or after 1 - 2 mins of lock I just restart (hard reset) and it's fine till it happens again.
I have tried almost every kind of trouble shooting measure. SFC, safemode (yes it still does it in safemode). Ramtest. Driver updates, driver rollbacks, cleaning... removing many processes, turning off processes. Re-seating of various hardware components.
All tests show zero problems, no heat issue, no hardware issues. The system ran almost perfectly for a year and half. I had one failed stick of ram other than that nothing else. Built the system my self.
Now I have run various hardware monitors so they would record things so when I come out of a lockup, I could possible check max and min recorded values. All the processors highest recorded values are 100%, so the lockup is occurring due to all cores maxing?
This to me indicates a hardware issue with either mb or cpu. Voltages always seem fine. So I rule out power supply. It's so random when it occurs. So I contacted MSI and they want me to do further testing but I would have to rebuild this MB into another system to know if it's mb. Which doesn't make sense I might as well just build a new computer, I wasn't planning on it yet, though it's almost two years old lol...
Could it be CPU? I just don't think it could... it doesn't do it under stress it is very random.. like a bus or some bad section on hardware shorting out ... hdds test fine... it could be sdd too
MSI is good for RMA if I decide to go that route... this is very tough to troubleshoot without another system to swap components too...