Saturday, April 25, 2015

windows 7 - Questions regarding computer freeze (no BSOD)

My pc (win7 x64) randomly freezes (nothing responds only solution is a hard reboot) usually once a day sometimes it goes for 5 days with no freeze.


Steps I've taken so far:



  • Updated all drivers from their official websites

  • Memtested RAM

  • Monitored temperatures/fan speed to see if theres any correlation to the freeze (all within norm)

  • Re-slotted components in case of bad contacts

  • Looked trough event viewer for potential causes

  • Tried to look for patterns in what I do before the freeze occurs so far seems pretty random

  • There is no minidump file as the pc doesn't BSOD


What are possible causes for full freeze (caps lock led doesn't work for example)?
Am I correct in assuming a bad driver would cause a BSOD instead?


I suspect a faulty piece of hardware likely motherboard/psu but I have no idea how to find out for sure.


Any ideas?

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