I have a pretty nice Gaming PC i built a little while back, fresh install of windows 10. The PC will Randomly Freeze/Lock forcing a Hard-shut down is the only way to get the PC off, then back on. Completely random, could be watching youtube, twitch, playing a game on steam or battle.net ect. not sure why this is happening & i didn't see anything in my Event Viewer, yet im not completely sure if im looking in the right place..

Specs;
PC SPECS:
MOBO~Gigabyte z170x Gaming 7
CPU~ intel i7-6700k @4.6 Ghz
Cooler~ Corsair H100i v2 water cooler
Memory~ G.Skill Ripjaw V series DDR4 16 gb
GPU~ Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1070
Storage~ Samsung Evo 250 Gb SSD & Western Digital 1Tb HDD
Power Supply~ Corsair 750 RMx Fully modular
HELP?!?!

Nice specs. My guess is a failing hard disk drive. I can't think of why it would fail/freeze otherwise.

Does it do it randomly all the time or only during certain events/programs?

This post was edited by NinjaSushi on Mar 28 2018 06:41pm

He has another thread where they went over things.

Ahh thanks. I'd like to peruse it if I may.

Found it.

This post was edited by NinjaSushi on Mar 28 2018 06:44pm

says its resolved at this time, but knock yourself out.

Where does it say resolved.

one could say its the Schroedinger effect its both broken and fixed atm.
It's implied in my eyes at least. Till in reoccurs that is.

This post was edited by King Atrhur on Mar 28 2018 07:54pm

I saw that but that's since last night which doesn't give much time for it to reoccur.

it hasn't frozen on me today yet. will update/bump if it freezes for more trouble shooting.

i know one time since i have built this PC - i had a problem with the CMOS battery, PC would not turn on no matter what i tried
then pulled the CMOS, drained power from system, put CMOS battery back in and it started right up

If you just pulled the CMOS battery and then put it back in, all you did was reset the BIOS to defaults.
If you replaced the CMOS battery with a new one, well, that's different.