PC lock up

[Supergoal]

Sounds almost certain it's the HDD now.

Try getting a USB bootable linux with HDD repair tools, try to run some disk checkers just to verify it's getting physical errors before you RMA it.

I will do.

It's odd that if it is the SSD, why it only plays up after awhile, considering the way it stores data is different than typical HDDs.

I re-installed the OS onto the secondary HDD and so far it seems fine.

[Supergoal]

PC locked up again after another fresh install on the SSD.

Checking the event viewer seems to mention something about volsnap and shadow copying... WTF??

I'm almost certain it isn't a hardware issue, but I can't give up and allow my PC to become a doorstop after only 3 weeks.

[Supergoal]

I've pretty much exhausted what I can physically do to check hardware.

I'm starting to think it's something to do with the internet browsers.

For a start, whenever it it freezes and locks up it always seems to be mostly when I was using firefox.
I've stopped using firefox just to see if it made a difference.
Explorer also laggs and stutters and freezes at random points, but never locks up completely that I can't even Ctl Alt Del.

I've still no idea why this would happen... But it's somehow conflicting with the SSD and memory.

[Hohum]

PC locked up again after another fresh install on the SSD.

Checking the event viewer seems to mention something about volsnap and shadow copying... WTF??

I'm almost certain it isn't a hardware issue, but I can't give up and allow my PC to become a doorstop after only 3 weeks.

You need to provide more details about what's logged in event viewer including the descriptions for each event, can't give any suggestions otherwise. I would still say it's a hardware issue though, hard to lock up the O/S with software these days. Using an internet browser is just a good trigger for the underlying fault you have it would seem.

[Supergoal]

You need to provide more details about what's logged in event viewer including the descriptions for each event, can't give any suggestions otherwise. I would still say it's a hardware issue though, hard to lock up the O/S with software these days. Using an internet browser is just a good trigger for the underlying fault you have it would seem.

You could be right.

After 2 days of perfect use, this morning I went to turn it own and it gave me a BSOD everytime at the Windows Logo boot screen...

Really odd why it was absolutely fine for the last 2 days only for it to pack in the next morning.

I'm so pissed off with it. I took it back to the PC shop just before and see what they can do with it for the second time in 2 weeks. Not to mention they charge me for the privilege of buying their broken **** and then charging me every-time it breaks thereafter