I'm not sure if this is the right subsection of the forums but here goes.
I've been having a major issue with my PC for going on 2 months now (PC is about 6 months old) which occurs when I'm downloading -anything-, although it happens most frequently on steam.
It has happened when I've used Firefox to download, steam to download, a games client window to update a patch. After a random amount of time, anywhere from 5mb to 5gb into the download, my computer locks up. Now it doesn't lock up in the normal sense that the screen is frozen, but all my devices connected to the PC just shut off, but the PC is still running in the background. I can press the power button on the PC case to being a shutdown but it usually completely locks up on the 'Shutting Down' screen.
I hope somebody can help, I have been struggling for this crippling issue now and I've asked in a few places and people have just shrugged their shoulders
Not sure if it's a hardware or a software fault, but I'm almost at the point of formatting.
PC Specs-
Motherboard - Z77X-D3H
Gigabyte
RAM - 8GB Corsair Ram
CPU - 3570k Ivybridge
Graphics Card - GeForce GTX295
I've been having a major issue with my PC for going on 2 months now (PC is about 6 months old) which occurs when I'm downloading -anything-, although it happens most frequently on steam.
It has happened when I've used Firefox to download, steam to download, a games client window to update a patch. After a random amount of time, anywhere from 5mb to 5gb into the download, my computer locks up. Now it doesn't lock up in the normal sense that the screen is frozen, but all my devices connected to the PC just shut off, but the PC is still running in the background. I can press the power button on the PC case to being a shutdown but it usually completely locks up on the 'Shutting Down' screen.
I hope somebody can help, I have been struggling for this crippling issue now and I've asked in a few places and people have just shrugged their shoulders
Not sure if it's a hardware or a software fault, but I'm almost at the point of formatting.
PC Specs-
Motherboard - Z77X-D3H
Gigabyte
RAM - 8GB Corsair Ram
CPU - 3570k Ivybridge
Graphics Card - GeForce GTX295
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