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Computer Freezes ~2 minutes after booting every time

Meekers

Meekers

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A computer I built for my office about 3 years ago has started freezing after a couple minutes every time. It was booting into Windows every time and would act normally until the screen would freeze. Computer would not shutdown but could not do anything.

Some googling suggested that that most likely culprit was the HDD or ram. I wanted to upgrade to a SSD anyway so I tried that first. 2-3 minutes into installing windows the computer would crash.

Next I decided to buy some ram because if that was not the problem I could always use it for my next build. Got the ram in today and computer still froze 2-3 minutes in the Windows install.

The only other potential culprits at this point are:

Athlon II x3 450
Biostar A770E3 motherboard
Sapphire 4650
Antec EarthWatts Green EA-430D


Anyone have any good ideas before I scrap the rest of the parts and pick up a cheap cpu+igpu/motherboard combo at Micro Center?
 
Boot into the system setup screen (BIOS) to see if it does the same thing there. And if your BIOS has the option, check the system temperatures while you are in there.
 
Have you looked in the Event Viewer to see if there's anything related to the freezing?

If you are overclocking, this would be indicative of a lack of voltage/unstable overclock.
 
Smoove910 said:
Have you looked in the Event Viewer to see if there's anything related to the freezing?

If you are overclocking, this would be indicative of a lack of voltage/unstable overclock.
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The cpu has never been overclocked. I did not check event viewer. Tomorrow I will reconnect the old HDD and see what I can find.
 
So I tried getting it going to see the event viewer a few times today and the computer froze before windows finished loading every time. This computer does not do more than run excel and youtube so I am thinking it would just make sense to finish the rebuilding process with a run to microcenter. Just need to decide what is the cheapest way to go from here.

Do I get a cheap cpu and reuse the 6450 or does it make more sense to get something with an igpu.

I can get a 6400k+motherboard for $65...seems like a decent option. Microcenter does not bundle any of the cheap intel cpus, but still might be able to do something better with them if I reuse the gpu I have.
 
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Meekers said:
I can get a 6400k+motherboard for $65...seems like a decent option.
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Don't bother with a discrete GPU if all you do is office work (unless that work is in photo / video categories).

Just grab a cheap APU combo and re-install everything. You've already spent enough time troubleshooting.

Edit: If the new combo fails the same way, replace the PSU.
 
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