After a little bit of me playing I will hear a ding in the background and the game will freeze. I have to use the task manager to kill the program compleyely. This just started recently. I ran stress tests on my cpu and gpu, and they were fine. I can play other games for hours without issue. It's just Skyrim. It seems to have started around the same time I installed the ESO client. Not sure. So what I am going to try is to uninstall eso, skyrim, and reinstall skyrim. I will paste the event viewer log just to see what you guys think or if you've experienced this issue before. Thanks.

edit: seems I can't post the data because the forum thinks I am posting links.

The ding in the background kind of sounds like another program is grabbing focus from Skyrim in a way that Skyrim doesn't like.

You should be able to copy and paste the text from the reports directly into a post. Once you've made 10 posts to the forum you'll be allowed to post links.

I am going to post what I can of the log.

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Hang
Date: 2/16/2014 1:18:35 AM
Event ID: 1002
Task Category: (101)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: BigNick-PC
Description:
The program TESV.exe version 1.7.7.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: e58
Start Time: 01cf2aee42fa4f4b
Termination Time: 86
Application Path: E:\programs\skyrim\The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim\TESV.exe
Report Id:

Event Xml:



1002
2
101
0x80000000000000

15105
Application
BigNick-PC



TESV.exe
1.7.7.0
e58
01cf2aee42fa4f4b
86
E:\programs\skyrim\The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim\TESV.exe


55006E006B006E006F0077006E0000000000