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    Question New PC build frequently freezes, black screen and orange motherboard light ?

    Ok it seems like after uninstall the nvidea GPU experience, reinstalling GPU drivers and unsintalling the ASUS apps, my system is running much more stable! Looking at the event viewer, I had 24 critcal/error events yesterday alone vs only 1 error today which upon inspection was not a dramatic...
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    Question New PC build frequently freezes, black screen and orange motherboard light ?

    Good idea thank you! I think I might be closer to an answer now. I tried re-seating the RAM earlier today but no change. But I've been looking through the Event viewer for the system logs timestamped around the time of the crash. I can see there are 'critical' errors that give me this 278...
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    Question New PC build frequently freezes, black screen and orange motherboard light ?

    Ok good to know, spoke to Kingston technical support and got the same answer so shouldn't be too much cause for concern. I'm gonna open my case so that I can see the exact Motherboard light that lights up yellow :-)
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    Question New PC build frequently freezes, black screen and orange motherboard light ?

    Thank you for the quick response! I haven't considered the GPU but I might go have a look just to confirm it's not the culprit I've since done and noticed a few things: - I noticed my BIOS was in fact out of date and updated it with a USB stick - I ran a memtest and found 0 errors - I dont...
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    Question New PC build frequently freezes, black screen and orange motherboard light ?

    Thanks for reaching out! Had a look at the manual and seems the 'Yellow' light is related to the DRAM. I also look on the QVL for my MOBO model and found it Listed here, so it shouldn't be a compatibility. I'm gonna run a Memtest now and see if I can get any conclusive answers
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    Question New PC build frequently freezes, black screen and orange motherboard light ?

    I recently built my dream PC, this is my second ever build, the first being 10 years back. In everyday use it runs beautifully. But more than once per day the following will happen randomly: 1. my screen will freeze for a few minutes, unable to control keyboard and mouse (sometimes my screen...