Computer locking up.

[MikeWasHere]

My computer has slowly started locking up more and more, usually when I'm playing a game of some sort. It's even more likely to do it as I'm listening to music at the same time, so I'm thinking its a memory or cpu issue.

Any ideas or tests I could run to try and isolate the problem?

 

[PurdueRy]

first disconnect the non-essentials and see if the problem persists.

Then check temps to see if everything is within reason

Then memtest the ram via Memtest86

 

[eplebnista]

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