Random Freezes.

[backfire]

So yesterday my computer suddenly went nuts with bluescreens and freezes despite running fine just the other day. I tried running all sorts of scans and whatnot. Eventually gave up, thought it might be a driver issue and decided it'd be a good excuse to reformat everything. So starting from a clean state, within the hour of having the system up and running again, I got the same freezes I was getting before. They seem to mostly happen whenever I'm doing anything intensive such as playing a game or working with too many programs at once, but I have no way to pinpoint exactly what's wrong.

I already ran a scan overnight with memtest86 and ran a test on my harddrive. My cpu and gpu temps seem to be fine, so I'm left with no other ideas what's wrong. The motherboard/cpu/gpu is about a year old at most, but this definitely has to be a hardware issue of some sort. Does anyone have any ideas how I can diagnosis this? Searching for "windows 7 freezes" doesn't help at all as there's a ton of reasons why it happens. I've been at this for two days straight and I'm kinda losing my head over it x_x


Edit Wait I might have misread something. Can a hard freeze be caused by a cpu overheating?

Okay nevermind. CPU temps of 60+ idle is probably a terrible thing. Weird how this suddenly became an issue but whatever at least I know the problem.

Nevermind figured it out. Was an issue with my ram tunings. Everything work fine again.

[FlyingMongoose]

Get some new thermal paste and make sure your heatsink is seated well.

Sent from my subdermal neurological implant.

[Elder]

Making sure everything is seated well in you tower can save you hours of headaches

Sent from inside a giant robot car

[FlyingMongoose]

Making sure everything is seated well in you tower can save you hours of headaches

Sent from inside a giant robot car

Both our comments come from experience >.<