I built my parents computer back in mid-September. Its specs are as follows:
- Radeon R9 200 series-
- 8GB of DDR3 RAM
- Intel i5-4440 3.1GHz Haswell processor
- 650w PSU (If you need the maker I'd be happy to fetch it for you, I just can't think of it off the top of my head)
- 1TB HDD
- 256GB SSD (I think Sandisk, though I'd have to go back home to check)
- Windows 8.1, legitimately purchased
It ran great for a few months, but in the last week has developed an odd bug: Every few hours spent in a game will lock it up. The game stops, sound stops, and the only way to turn the computer off is to hold down the power button.
But this ONLY seems to happen in games. I can leave it on and browse the internet for as long as I want, but an hour or two playing games causes a lockup.
I've updated as many drivers as I can think of, but still problems. Memtest86+ has turned back 0 errors after 2 passes, but I will run it for another several. I ran a comprehensive benchmark on it to see if it failed, but it passed spectacularly. Temperatures seem completely normal under load: around 50c on the processor, 85-90c on the gpu, and <40 on the hard drives.
There seems to be nothing in the event log, except the expected Kernel Power Failures and Unexpected Shutdowns from holding the power button in.
I've ran verifier.exe, but no errors were thrown.
Any ideas? I'm a little lost.