Hello. First thing first: apologies for my english, spanish is my mother language, not english. I'll do my best to explain myself.
These freezings are so annoying that I've lost my patience and came here in search for help since google is not an option
About a few months I bought this motherboard, since then my windows is starting to freeze randomly (fresh installment), sometimes when listening to music, sometimes when i'm playing, sometimes just doing random stuff.
Windows will lock up and I will have to hard reset, then repair the installation, the whole process can took me 5 mins or one hour (it depends how much the system wants to troll me, making me wait unnecessarily)
It happens at least once every, lets say 24 hours, somedays 5 times a day (it's just painfull).
The longest time without a freeze was something like 48 hours.
I have readed lots of forums about people with pretty much the exact issues using this motherboard, but 50% of them where using SSDs, and I'm using a regular HD (old SATA 2 Western Digital).
Is not an OS problem since I reinstalled windows 4 times since these problems started to happen (just to see if that was the issue). I don't think is a software/driver issue neither. I'm pretty "light" in terms of software: A few minor programs, and the usual drivers (video, sound, usb 3.0, etc).
I have even installed the Asmedia SATA drivers. Never did that before, drivers for an HD... And the problem still persists.
Never had these freezings with my old configuration. The problem started when I changed the motherboard/ram/cpu.
I have run memtest for a few hours, it says everything is fine. Used HD Tune pro to test the HD, it says my HD is perfect.
Never Overclocked anything.
Tried changing the ram into a different socket, no results. Tried checking the SATA cables, everything is fine
My PC configuration:
Maximus V Gene
i5 3570k
G.Skill Ripjaws 1x8Gb
GTX 660Ti (after that was my old ATI 4890, same issues)
OCZ 600w XStream
Western Digital HD321KJ 320gb SATA 2 (is old, but still works flawlessly according to HD Tune Pro)
Windows 7 ultimate 64bits
Not sure waht more I can add. Hope you understood what I just wrote (shouldn't have been a walltext...)
