Recent content by NCG-Sam

Hopefully you have a spare monitor lying around that you can use. Connect the spare monitor and see if you are able to get a picture. THis should rule out the motherboard/gpu being bad. If the external monitor has the same issue, then you know the issue is with your mobo. If it does not have the...

If you want to play some games on it but don't want to splurge for one that has a discrete graphics card, then I think that Haswell is worth the wait.

Reformatting wouldn't be a bad idea. If that doesn't work, try running the system with one stick of RAM. If it freezes again, remove it and replace with the other. See if you can isolate the issue to a single stick of RAM.

Not much you can buy outright at that price range. May want to try www.nocompromisegaming.com

Run seatools or a similar HD testing application and see what it says. I actually experienced a similar issue with a Macbook Pro that I had upgraded the RAM on. I finally figured out that the RAM was not seated properly, it was just the tiniest bit loose and would cause these crashes -...