After over year year without any issue, my computer started crashing when playing Battlefield 3 when using Origin. The error presents itself in the form of a computer lock and will self restart without loading the BIOS, it is almost as if its in a suspended hibernate mode and will not boot into the O/S. I have to power the system down for a minute before rebooting, occasionally having to disconnect the power supply in order to clear the RAM.
As a test I downloaded the Steam client and installed Americas Army 3, within five minutes of game play it froze up with distorted audio as was also the case with Battlefield 3. The same exact symptoms and diagnosis of having to clear my PC RAM in order to facilitate a clean boot.
I can play Skyrim through the Steam client and Command and Conquer 3 through Origin, for hours (Check my logtime X]) without issue for days, weeks and months on end.
I can run virtual machine environments with multiple servers.
I can run Reason and Audacity simultaneously without issue.
Streaming movie content from Netflix is no issue.
I decided to run a thermal test as well as a voltage test. All of my results are nominal and I have used a variety of the Intel Desktop Control Center software to ensure my results were accurate.
What is going on with Microsoft Windows 7 64-Bit? Is my computer hardware to blame?
SPECS:
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Professional BUILD NUMBER: 7601
RAM 12GB Kingston 1080MHz DDR3 Bank A:B:C
MOBO: Intel DX58SO Version: AAE29331-703
BIOS VER: SOX5810J.86A.5600 July 29, 2013 10
Processor: i7 950@3.07 Unlocked
Video: GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Driver Version: 311.06
DX Support : 11.1
Graphics clock 900MHz
Proc Clock: 1800MGz
RAM data rate: 4008MHz
RAM interface: 192-bit
Memory Bandwidth: 96.19 GB/s
Total Available Video Ram on card: 4095MB