pc freeze with audio looping

[peter tron]

hi guys!

as above, and it's happened 3 times over the last week.

it has happened when using firefox to stream videos so far (youtube.netflix, steam videos etc).

i'm aware it is not necessarily bios related, it could be any number of things.

i have performed stress tests on the gpu/psu with furmark for 30mins-no issues

prime95 testing ram/cpu for 8hrs-no problems.

i have reinstalled flash and disabled hardware acceleration-no change.

i was told by someone to "look for cpu/vtt in the bios and manually set it to 1.25v save/exit".
this didn't work, as cpu/vtt in the bios was set at +0.0v and on auto.
i was not able to change the auto setting.
he mentioned that i should flash the bios with qflash and try again.
i have heard that if the bios is working ok, then i shouldn't flash it.

what should i do?

p.s:-hwmonitor reads +12v-8.88v
bios reads 12.024

specs:

gigabyte h61ma-d3v
rev. 2.1
bios ver. f4
date: 3/23/12
id: 8A01AG04

[absic]

Hi there,

Is it only in Firefox that you are having the problem?

If it is, have you tried another browser to see if that works better?

If hardware checks out, as yours seems to do from your testing, then the problem is more likely to be one of software rather than hardware.

The last BIOS for your motherboard is the F7c beta BIOS. You don't give hardware information but flashing to this BIOS version might help if the problem is hardware related. Using QFlash is the best and safest way to update the BIOS. There is a sticky here: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=2441.0 that will help if you are unsure of how to flash the BIOS using QFlash.

[peter tron]

hey absic!

i am trying firefox in safe mode at the moment to see how that goes.

if the problem still persists, i'll try chrome.

i'll also go ahead and try updating the bios. as long as i carefully follow the instructions i'm sure i wont go wrong.