UPDATE: in case anyone is searching the forum for answers to their own problems.
Below issue was not due to bad RAM (yay!). After a fresh install of Win 8 everything is running along smoothly. It must be some issue with my Win 7 and I highly suspect a virus/malware or broken registry items. I won' tbe going back in to find out though.
Hello everyone. I hope the group doesn't mind the stream of questions that I am sending out right now, but I have another one (and more to come)...
This one is simple. Is it a "normal" thing for LinX and Prime95 to freeze the computer?
There are no errors being recorded, it is not crashing the computer to a reboot. Everything just locks up - no mouse/keyboard response, even the monitor does not sleep.
LinX does this consistently. Prime95 does this on LargeFFT but not Small (I haven't tried blend). It can take anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes to happen.
I will be testing a bunch of things to try to solve, but I am really starting to think I need to spend some time with the stability of the software before I fiddle anymore with hardware.
Below issue was not due to bad RAM (yay!). After a fresh install of Win 8 everything is running along smoothly. It must be some issue with my Win 7 and I highly suspect a virus/malware or broken registry items. I won' tbe going back in to find out though.
Hello everyone. I hope the group doesn't mind the stream of questions that I am sending out right now, but I have another one (and more to come)...
This one is simple. Is it a "normal" thing for LinX and Prime95 to freeze the computer?
There are no errors being recorded, it is not crashing the computer to a reboot. Everything just locks up - no mouse/keyboard response, even the monitor does not sleep.
LinX does this consistently. Prime95 does this on LargeFFT but not Small (I haven't tried blend). It can take anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes to happen.
I will be testing a bunch of things to try to solve, but I am really starting to think I need to spend some time with the stability of the software before I fiddle anymore with hardware.
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