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Re: Randomly freezing PC....

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On 24/05/2023 11:01, SH wrote:
> 
> 
> Right I have a PC that randomly locks up and freezes. Ctrl - Alt - Del 
> does not work, only the reset button on the PC.
Microsoft's suggestions here ...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/performance/windows-based-computer-freeze-troubleshooting

> 
> Is there any logging software or event logs I can delve into to try and 
> diagnose the trouble?

Depends how deep you want to go.

On another machine you could install something to that periodically 
collects logs, and install an agent on the machine itself to send them.

https://www.rsyslog.com/windows-agent/

Or you could go and do the whole enterprise thing and install Splunk, 
which has a free version and a head-spinning learning curve. I painfully 
use it for work.

> 
> I had recently upgraded from 2 sticks of 16 GB ram (32GB) to 4 sticks of 
> 32 GB ram (128 GB)

Back in the day, my first 286 PC had a dizzy 1MB of memory...

  and put in a 2nd M2 flash (same make and model as the
> 1st) and the 2nd one is used as a backup drive by Win 11 every Sunday to 
> back up the first M2 drive
> 
> It was after this than the freezing issues started to occur.
> 
> I have already run Win 11's own Memory tester and that found no issues.


Hmmm, my 2 cents suspicion is on the memory upgrade.

What motherboard, what chipset, what rank are the modules? You might be 
hitting limits.

https://uk.crucial.com/support/articles-faq-memory/what-is-a-memory-rank

Are these particular ram memory modules on the validation list for the 
motherboard?.

May be worth checking with the MB manufacturer, also finding out whether 
any BIOS settings might help, or if the BIOS itself has a later upgrade 
that fixes it.

-- 
Adrian C

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Randomly freezing PC.... SH <i.love@spam.com> - 2023-05-24 11:01 +0100
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