System freezes driving me nuts

[MagickMan]

At times my machine will just lock up, it's a hard freeze. There's no mouse movement and KB is unresponsive, I can't do anything to get it to respond. The only thing I can do is hold down the power button and shut it off. This happens regardless of whether I'm OCing or not, but almost every time the thing that triggers it is running a Youtube video while I'm tabbed out of a game. Everything will seem to be fine and then it's locked and there will be a buzzing sound like feedback. The only other time this happened was when I was burning a DVD with Nero and it froze half way through (I think there may have been a Youtube video paused in the background). I thought it might have been because I was running 10.3a Cata drivers, but it did it again after going to 10.4. Any ideas?

Win 7 Pro 64
Latest Chrome
Latest Flash (tried both 10 and 10.1)

 

[mbevolution]

sounds like a psu problem to me. my psu for my old comp did that and then one day it went "poof" and a bunch of black smoke came out. funny thing is im still using it..

 

[OBLAMA2009]

At times my machine will just lock up, it's a hard freeze. There's no mouse movement and KB is unresponsive, I can't do anything to get it to respond. The only thing I can do is hold down the power button and shut it off. This happens regardless of whether I'm OCing or not, but almost every time the thing that triggers it is running a Youtube video while I'm tabbed out of a game. Everything will seem to be fine and then it's locked and there will be a buzzing sound like feedback. The only other time this happened was when I was burning a DVD with Nero and it froze half way through (I think there may have been a Youtube video paused in the background). I thought it might have been because I was running 10.3a Cata drivers, but it did it again after going to 10.4. Any ideas?

Win 7 Pro 64
Latest Chrome
Latest Flash (tried both 10 and 10.1)

yeah, next time go with INTEL!!!

 

[Schmide]

yeah, next time go with INTEL!!!

Doesn't he have a q9550? WTF

 

[MagickMan]

sounds like a psu problem to me. my psu for my old comp did that and then one day it went "poof" and a bunch of black smoke came out. funny thing is im still using it..

It's not the PSU, it handles stress tests for hours on end.

yeah, next time go with INTEL!!!

Ummm, it is an Intel.

 

[Gambit808]

yeah, next time go with INTEL!!!

it is a intel chip! your fired from posting, go stand in a corner! : )

 

[biostud]

It could be a memory porblem since it occurs both during OC and without.

try to underclock your memory.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Run memtest.

 

[Axon]

It could be a memory porblem since it occurs both during OC and without.

try to underclock your memory.

+1. Could be RAM timings or RAM speed.

 

[C1]

There could be anything going on. Assume that it is software. Try running YouTube in different browsers (presumably that's how you are running it).

 

[sandorski]

In my experience, Alt-Tabbing out of games is just asking for problems. Most of the time they are fairly minor, like Texture Corruption or simply not being able to Alt-Tab back into the game successfully, but I gave up on doing it years ago.

That said, check the Caps on your Motherboard. Your Overclock may have caused damage.

 

[LoneNinja]

yeah, next time go with INTEL!!!

By that logic he should go AMD next time, since it's the Intel chip causing issues.........


Does this happen with any broswer besides Chrome? I've personally had nothing but problems with Chrome, I tried it out several times on different computers since it's original release, even Internet Explorer is better in my opinion.

 

[mbevolution]

yeah, next time go with INTEL!!!

yeah, next time go with AMD!!!

 

[MagickMan]

Figured it out (I think). It was a DVBlink conflict with Flash, looks like it was causing the Catalyst drivers to bug out. It's working properly now.