Question - PC keeps freezing. No BSOD.m just freezes. What is the most likely culprit,...

[Danny Smith]

Question - PC keeps freezing. No BSOD.m just freezes. What is the most likely culprit, CPU or motherboard

 

[Drew Leonard]

Moar deets! Whats it doing when it freezes. Idling? Gaming? What what in the butt

 

[Danny Smith]

Anything. It just happens randomly.

 

[Leland Pratt]

What are u using to cool cpu

 

[Chris Santana]

Restart and open bios if you not getting proper cooling your temps should read out there

 

[Chris Santana]

sounds like a RAM issue to me though. Try removing a stick maybe a bad module

 

[Albert Dela Cruz]

Reset the bios it'll reset the RAM's Latency then reinstall the thermal compound then reseat the HSF properly. I had that issue before

 

[Drew Leonard]

thermal issues are usually just an immediate shutdown though and not freezing right? ram is a likely issue unless its windows or a driver possibly freezing the system. i know we are always quick to think its hardware but software could be an issue as well.

 

[Danny Smith]

Note - the pc would just switch off instead of freezing. I changed the setting to stop this to hopefully get a BSOD to diagnose issue. Don't know if that is relevant