Hello. Yesterday when playing Far Cry 4 my computer suddenly freezes with "BZZZZZ" sound. I am shocked. It has never happen before.
So only hard reset helps. So after reset i again run Far Cry 4 and left for 12 hours in background. And after 12 hours without freez, all fine. But why i was had one single freez yesterday ( only hard reset helps ) ?
There is no any minidumps file to analyze. Minidump folder is empty.
I run even Prime95 for 10 hours, without errors.
My pc is:
4790 stock
8gb ram
Sabertooth Z79 Mark2
Asus Strix 980 ( Oc factory )
Corsair 750 RM
HDD 500GB SATAIII
I dont OC my pc, all is stock.
I am using 334.75 WHQL.
IS this game\software problem or hardware?
Like i say all is fine now, but i am worried about that one single freez ( only hard reset helps ) from yesterday.
Thank you for any suggestion.
Should i be worried?
It happens once, so thats why i create a topic problem. Because i want to know , what caused that one single freez. I never had freez like this even before.
I tested PRime95, 3dmark 11 and after few hours without errors\crashes.
From my experience, you only get a minidump when you get a bluescreen. ie. Windows shutting itself down. If system freezes on it's own, no dump, I believe.
Have had a freeze or two with FC4 over the last 4 months. But in my case it was me fooling around with over clocking. Might work for awhile but then boom. In fact any
time I've ever had any bluescreens, it usually traces back to my video card in some way. My guess is that your hardware had a hiccup which all systems get and it's not the software.
Just my thoughts, man, not an expert. Wish you luck though.
My PC:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-960 processor @3.2GHz (8MB L2 Cache)
16GB RAM, DDR3 PC3-10600, DDR3 PC3-12800
Nvidia(R) GeForce(R) GTX 970 4GB
Dell XPS 9100 Desktop
Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) SP1
The description given could fit a TDR issue, the best topic on the subject that I know of is here, work through the checks and preventative measures carefully.
Check the Management System logs for a crash/error log during that period, it might give further clues.
Also check for simple things - a loose connection somewhere could cause it.
No its not TDR , because in Watchdog folder there is not any minidump file created. That was freeze when ctrl alt delete, mouse nothing worked. So i forced reset.
After freeze my system event logs are empty. No minidump file in watchdog folder.
Nothing appears in the Event Viewer other than the typical error messages stating that the previous shutdown was unexpected . So this is my report.
That can be hardware or more likely game issue?