Android412
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About a week ago my computer started freezing randomly. Could be almost anything, but seems to be "mostly" when i'm using my net connection at medium to high levels. Could be with torrents, games, or just surfing a page with lots of pics, or news sites combined with Firefox's drag to tab feature(multiple tabs open at once).
At first I thought it might have been the contact with the heat sink on my CPU (took it off recently to clean dust from vents), but have since replaced the paste.
Thought it could have been a bad stick of RAM, just by the symtoms, but ran Memtest on them, and seems fine.
Dont think its an over heating problem because for the last couple days I've been running my comp with the side off the case, thinking it was overheating, but it still happens.
My last thought might be the power supply, but I dont really now how to test that, other then get a new one to see if it solves the problem.
Any other ideas on this?
Android412
At first I thought it might have been the contact with the heat sink on my CPU (took it off recently to clean dust from vents), but have since replaced the paste.
Thought it could have been a bad stick of RAM, just by the symtoms, but ran Memtest on them, and seems fine.
Dont think its an over heating problem because for the last couple days I've been running my comp with the side off the case, thinking it was overheating, but it still happens.
My last thought might be the power supply, but I dont really now how to test that, other then get a new one to see if it solves the problem.
Any other ideas on this?
Android412