This seems to have solved the issue thanks!

Greetings,

I ran the update to bring my system up to version 1903 last night. As a result when windows starts I just get an empty screen - I do not see the start bar, I can not see any desktop...

Ok, for the past 6 or 7 months I did not experience a single freeze. Now that it is almost summer and temperatures are warming up I have started to get my same reoccurring freezes happening again.
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I ran FurMark for just over an hour. During that time the computer did not malfunction or freeze.

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I ran Prime95 for 4 hours. During that time the computer did not malfunction or freeze.
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When I launch Prime95 it asks me which "torture test" to run: "small FFTs", "in-place large FFTs", "blend" or "Custom". Which is the one I should run?

dump file created today:
MEMORY.DMP -...

Which type of test in Prime95 do you recommend I run?

see post #48...settings are the same as in the image posted there...except auto restart is unchecked now.

i saw no yellow triangles.

...so i should just stare at HWMonitor for 180min while Prime95 runs? Is that what people typically do when they run a test like this?

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In the tutorial it says that I can damage my CPU if the stress test makes it get too hot, but it does not say what temp is too hot? I do not want to fry my CPU. How do I find out the max temp I...

What am I looking to learn from these programs?

Thanks

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Could you provide instructions on how to preform these tests?

Thanks.

I had Task Manager open hoping to observe what it says when one of my freezes happens. Attached is what it showed. Basically the system started to act sluggish...i switched over to Task...

...Event Viewer does not show any entries which correspond to my freeze, and I can not get a Crash Dump file to be created during the freeze either. Is there any other diagnostic tool which would...

Does it matter that my system disc is "Disc 1" and my data disc is "Disc 0" ?

Driver is the latest. How do I find out the firmware version I am running?



I have the main system drive [C] with no partitions. [D] has my data on it and has one partition [E].
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See attached image...

The 950 PRO is my system drive. Windows and all my applications are installed on it.

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Here is what I currently am running:
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Chrome is not always running when the freeze happens. If I said that earlier I misspoke. It happens at random times.

Thanks for your input.

Hi again,
I am still getting the same random freeze in windows and am wondering if anyone has any other ideas about what could be causing this.

I updated the audio driver per the last...

Windows continues to have problems with its auto update. The attached images is from the Reliability History.

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Any thought on how I can fix this problem?

Thanks

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When I go to device manager under SOUND CONTROLERS > REALTEC AUDIO the driver date / version is 8/23/2016 / 6.0.1.7917. Saltgrass is saying that the driver is from 2015 (post #53). Are we both...