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I've been having an issue lately with random freezing of the entire computer where I'm pretty much forced to hard boot (no BSOD at any time). It would happen at the oddest of times, sometimes while I was streaming a video game, others when the computer was idle and the last one that made me want to dive deeper is while the computer was in the Windows loading screen.
I was able to rule out some of the more simple things like apps and temperature issues which led me to MemTest. I went about halfway through a MemTest 4.3.7 with 8 errors when I realized my RAM frequency was 1333 but was supposed to be 1600. I also realized my CPU was at 4019Mhz when it was pacaked as 3.6Ghz. I looked around the bios and everything was set to "auto" and I selected "Optimized Defaults" to try to fix the overclock. but I'm not able to adjust anything regarding the CPU. I don't know much about overclocking, so I'm not even sure why it's up so much. I messed with it a long time ago, but decided I didn't know what I was doing so left it with whatever I did. Anyways, I found a feature called (Extreme Memory Profiler(X.M.P)). When I adjusted it to profile1, it seemed to bump up the RAM to 1600. (see pic) though now when I reverted the setting back to "Disabled" it stays at 1600. I figured I should run the test with the accurate timing and this time it booted into MemTest 7.5 and returned 5 errors within the 4 different passes.I didn't get a pic of the test errors because I assumed it was in the first picture.
So onto my questions. Do the errors I received with MemTest reflect the random freezing? Why am I unable to adjust my CPU clock and could that contribute to the issues I've had? What should I do as my next few steps to ensure I do this properly?
Rig:
Gigabyte - GA-990FXA-UD5
AMD - FX-8150 3.6GHz 8-Core
Corsair - Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600
Apologies for my lack of knowledge in this... I really should do better in understanding what each component of my PC does and how to adjust them accordingly. Thanks in advance for any replies and help!
I've been having an issue lately with random freezing of the entire computer where I'm pretty much forced to hard boot (no BSOD at any time). It would happen at the oddest of times, sometimes while I was streaming a video game, others when the computer was idle and the last one that made me want to dive deeper is while the computer was in the Windows loading screen.
I was able to rule out some of the more simple things like apps and temperature issues which led me to MemTest. I went about halfway through a MemTest 4.3.7 with 8 errors when I realized my RAM frequency was 1333 but was supposed to be 1600. I also realized my CPU was at 4019Mhz when it was pacaked as 3.6Ghz. I looked around the bios and everything was set to "auto" and I selected "Optimized Defaults" to try to fix the overclock. but I'm not able to adjust anything regarding the CPU. I don't know much about overclocking, so I'm not even sure why it's up so much. I messed with it a long time ago, but decided I didn't know what I was doing so left it with whatever I did. Anyways, I found a feature called (Extreme Memory Profiler(X.M.P)). When I adjusted it to profile1, it seemed to bump up the RAM to 1600. (see pic) though now when I reverted the setting back to "Disabled" it stays at 1600. I figured I should run the test with the accurate timing and this time it booted into MemTest 7.5 and returned 5 errors within the 4 different passes.I didn't get a pic of the test errors because I assumed it was in the first picture.
So onto my questions. Do the errors I received with MemTest reflect the random freezing? Why am I unable to adjust my CPU clock and could that contribute to the issues I've had? What should I do as my next few steps to ensure I do this properly?
Rig:
Gigabyte - GA-990FXA-UD5
AMD - FX-8150 3.6GHz 8-Core
Corsair - Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600
Apologies for my lack of knowledge in this... I really should do better in understanding what each component of my PC does and how to adjust them accordingly. Thanks in advance for any replies and help!
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