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  1. linxxln

    Question My PC crashes when playing any Battleeye game

    My computer freezes, the audio in my headphones make a pop sound when it freezes, and after ~15 seconds, it turns off and turns itself back on. I have no idea what's going on. - SPECS: IBUYPOWER Y40 ( Y40BI7N4703 ) got from BestBuy, can't find exact model but this is closest OS: Win11 HOME GPU...
  2. M

    Question PC freezes daily because of two corrupted drivers

    My pc freezes once or twice per day and I have to forcfully turn off my pc each time and reboot the errors from the event viewers are listed in the pictures bellow : View: https://imgur.com/a/T3la3hg Can you recommand me a good driver scanning software ? My pc is up to date (bios firmware...
  3. TitiFitil

    Question Laptop is stuck in EFI Shell and it's keyboard has stopped working ?

    [Moderator edit to break up a solid paragraph of text and long sentences.] Hello everybody! My KMAX i11 2-in-1 laptop with an Intel Atom CPU is freezing after startup.nsh and shell>. Before the keyboard became unresponsive I made a usb stick with Windows10 to reinstall it. The laptop had some...
  4. P

    Question Laptop freezes sometimes, and complains about a USB port ?

    I bought a "refurbished" HP laptop with Ryzen 5 processor a while back. Yes, I know "refurbished" means it was used. It came with minimal resources, so I replaced the RAM with new Crucial sticks and replaced the SSD with a new Samsung 970 EVO. I run Devuan Linux on it. Every now and then the...
  5. S

    Question PC keeps freezing when idle ?

    Hey community, Sometimes whenever my PC is NOT under heavy load (like gaming) it freezes when it is near idle (like downloading games), this has been happening for almost 6 months and I can't seem to understand what is causing this issue. I thought It was a corrupted Windows installation so I...
  6. D

    Question Google Chrome freezes when left-click URL to copy to desktop

    I rebooted. I don't have anything else open. Task Manager shows low resource use. I only have 15 tabs open. I left-click on the URL to drag it to the desktop. The first few times it works. Then, the process freezes on me. It won't release the URL to the desktop. I move the cursor arrow back and...
  7. Bxzza

    Question Random Crashing while playing with no error/log

    Hi all! Any sort of assistance/recommendations would be much appreciated :) I have been having this issue for the last week or so where my game will crash then my entire system a few seconds later and the only error it provides is that the last system shutdown was unexpected. I have checked...
  8. J

    Question PC Problems: BSOD, random Reboots and No Video Signal

    Build: i7-4790 MSI z97m 2x 8GB ddr3 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance Nvidia gtx970 Corsair cs650m For some time the PC had freezes with buzzing sound ending in BSOD. It was necessary to reboot (via the button on the case), in some cases even twice because after the first one there was no video signal...
  9. SleuthX

    Question PC crashes and freezes (apparently), ports stop working while fans keep running

    The crashes are inconsistent, happens in 2010 game, happens in a game as intense as the Finals, happens when I kept Valorant running in the background, happened before when I was watching a Youtube video. Title. Gigabyte RX 6800 XT OC 13700k Z690 MSI A-Pro 4 sticks of Patriot Viper steel 3200mhz...
  10. M

    Question Crash, PC freeze randomly, no display, fans on 100%

    Hello, I have an issue since a few days. My PC randomly freeze up, can happen outside of game or during a gaming sessions. Mostly gaming though.. My display turns off and the computer fans goes on maximum and I need to force shut down (long press on power button). Been happening a bit more...
  11. reza55n

    Question My E440 laptop keeps freezing after heavy processes

    I have a Lenovo E440 laptop (aged 8 years) with Windows 10 and it's about 1 year that when I do a heavy process (or open multiple apps), the app freezes for about 10 seconds and then explorer.exe (and my taskbar and start menu) become frozen and then explorer.exe crashes and taskbar and all...
  12. N

    Question Sudden Massive System Slow Down - Need help identifying the culprit

    System Info : Laptop : Lenovo LOQ CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics, 3801 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s) GPU : RTX 4060 Memory : 16 GB (8 x2) Context : System freezes up randomly after starting download of some file on steam. Sometimes the cursor freezes too -...
  13. D

    Question What is the automated way to stop multiple chrome processes from restarting when you restart chrome?

    I get Windows Explorer crashes and freezes affecting the taskbar, which produces the hour glass when I hover over the taskbar. I know chrome is part of it if not all of it. When I delete browsing data and include cookies etc., it subsides and I have only one or two chrome instances, processes...
  14. L

    Question System with RTX 4060 TI Aorus freezing on login screen

    First of all, as a complement to try and find a solution, here's my current setup: Processor: Intel Core i9-10900K Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming Graphics Card: Aorus RTX 4060 TI Elite RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro LPX 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 3600MHz Power Supply: Corsair HX1200i...
  15. tsomek

    Question Windows 10 is freezing and crashing - - - - DistributedCOM Event ID 10016 error ?

    Hi I've had my computer (the Threadripper as per signature below) in the same configuration for years now - and surprisingly it has started crashing since coming back from my summer holidays a couple of days ago. In particular, I've noticed it happens when I run autoCAD or Brave browser -...
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    Question PC freezes when launching games ?

    Hey everyone, I'm having an issue with my PC that started about 1-2 months ago. Whenever I launch a game, my system freezes within 30 seconds. During the freeze, I can still move my mouse, but I'm unable to open anything, including Task Manager. I can hear the game sounds for a few more...
  17. RafeM

    Question My 3060 GPU might be faulty but I need advice from people smarter than me to confirm ?

    My system has been going for roughly 3 years now with only minor hitches along the way, but for the last few weeks I've been getting random crashes, freezes, 1 distorted bluescreen(?) and a black screen that rebooted by itself. I used DDU to clean out and reinstall nvidia drivers, no luck. I...
  18. komrade13

    Question BSOD or random freezing except when I'm gaming ?

    Hello, I have a second-hand ASUS TUF FX505DU gaming laptop that I bought in 2020. Since a few months ago, my laptop has been having freezing or BSOD problems that can occur randomly when I'm using the laptop for anything except gaming, including literally doing nothing on the desktop. I also...
  19. Spudledudle

    Question All apps freeze randomly while watching videos ?

    So recently I have noticed that while watching all sorts of online videos on many different players sometimes the apps I have opened freeze for some time (can't tab into them and the app I have on display at the moment doesn't respond) but the audio from the video still plays, and the video...
  20. J

    Question (Tech support request) Weird system freezes when doing anything.

    Within the last few weeks i've been having strange behaviour on my PC. Atleast a couple of times i've been just watching YT, browsing basic websites or playing undemanding games and then go to do something else only to discover all GUI is unresponsive, or the game application will freeze and all...
  21. S

    Question BSOD Bugcheck Analysis with total system freeze.

    Issue: Complete and total system freezes at arbitrary moments, most often when laptop is idle/not doing much. I can only do a hard reset and a power cycle to get it going again. Works perfectly fine in Safe Mode. Out of Safe Mode issues return. I never get a BSOD actually, but there was one...
  22. aidanperry0

    Question My computer freezes about 3 times a day.

    Hi, I have a prebuilt computer I've had for about 6 years. I've listed the specs below. Windows 10 CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920x GPU: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3060Ti Motherboard: Gigabyte X399 Designare EX-CF 4 8gb sticks of DDR4 RAM, 2133 MHz 3 storage drives, 1 NVME M.2 SSD and 2 3.5" HDDs...
  23. Y

    Question PC Freezing with no apparent pattern

    Hello, My computer freezes a lot (2-5 minutes after startup) and I can't open any apps that weren't pre-installed with my OS (Debian 12 because Windows kept giving me a "missing media driver error that I couldn't fix for the life of me). I have ran CPU and GPU stress tests without freezing...
  24. C

    Question PC is randomly freezing, rebooting, or monitors lose signal which forces me to restart ?

    So I am having some very annoying issues with my PC. It randomly freezes where I can no longer move my mouse, talk to people on discord or hear any audio (the audio always stops like 10 seconds after everything freezes). The only fix for this issue is to hold down the power button on my case (or...
  25. L

    Question PC freezes 30sec after booting up. Need Help Please

    Problem started when my pc would restart the whole system off, then sometimes it does the blue screen. This happens in the span of like 3mins after booting up. Now my PC freezes 30sec after booting up and all the fans are still working. I have 4x8gb ram sticks and tried using 2 and...
  26. skfallin

    Question Computer sometimes crashes on boot up, sometime freezes after 30 seconds or so and sometimes it works perfectly

    So my computer usually needs more than one try to boot up, sometimes it freezes on the boot screen, sometimes in the Windows 10 loading screen, sometimes after some uptime, and sometimes it works perfectly fine. When it starts and freezes right after, it works as normal without issues, lasting...
  27. R

    Question PC crashing/freezing with no BSOD, getting kernel power errors, usually under moderate load ?

    Hey all, first time posting in a forum like this, apologies if any of this is out of order, i usually am able to solve my issue by googling it, but I've been stuck for over a week now. I feel like there may be enough info to kinda pinpoint whats wrong, but I'm not tech savvy enough to figure it...
  28. B

    Question PC Freezing! Forced to hard reset at times

    Hi! So recently I've went from 9th gen to 13th gen, as you may know doing that requires a new chipset board obviously. I've recently replaced my i7-9700k and Z-370-a Pro for a i5-13600k and a B760-P DDR4 Motherboard. Doing all this and replacing the original CPU cooler as well worked fine for...
  29. LikeABossNT

    Question PC freezing/shutting down under heavy load

    Hello, this is bit of a long one so tl;dr is at the bottom. CPU: i7-13700k GPU: started with GTX 1080 Ti, swapped to RTX 4070 Ti Super PSU: Deepcool 1000W PQ1000M, and 850W XFX used for testing RAM: DDR5 32GB 5600MHz Mobo: Gigabyte Z790 GAMING X AX OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit This all started...
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    Question Computer randomly freezes while playing games

    A couple months ago my computer would randomly freeze while playing games, my computer wasn't under any heavy load and temps were normal so I don't think that was the issue. I tried a bunch of different things and eventually got it to stop happening but now it is starting to happen again. Under...
  31. lmlantoha

    Question The PC freezes from time to time without load and without

    Even on the desktop it can freeze and show no signs of life, here is a dump: CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT (101) An expected clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor in an MP system within the allocated interval. This indicates that the specified processor is hung and not processing...
  32. Bob9991

    Question Freezing and crashing issues ?

    My PC keeps crashing whenever it's under load, like when I'm using After Effects for work or playing games. I can't even get into most of my games, it just freezes or crashes instantly, although the audio continues for a brief moment and sometimes loops for about two seconds. Even if I'm...
  33. A_Goat

    Question Games freeze when IN focus

    I have a handful of games that freeze when they are in focus. I can't play them anymore, games that used to run fine. If I alt tab, or click on my secondary monitor, it unfreezes and runs fine. I can even hover over the menu items and everything highlights as normal, FPS is fine. As soon as I...
  34. Vollkornbrot

    Question Strange power outage

    Hi, recently I havea strange problem occuring for the second time today. When it happens I can hear the fans of my Pc switch off for a split second and the screen freezes. Immediately after that the PC fans are starting again (Sounds like when I turn on the PC). After 10 seconds it unfreezes...
  35. Krieghor

    [SOLVED] Ultra weird problem - - - random PC freezes when not gaming, and Windows boot issues ?

    Hello. I have a very strange problem with my computer and I would appreciate any help. My PC specs are as follows: CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 VISION OC 10GB GDDR6X MOBO: Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4 3200 MHz C16 SSD...
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    Question Stuck on bios

    Dear all, I have this 4 years old system: MB: MSI B450 Tomhawk CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX™ 2060 OC 6G (for testing purposes also replaced with ASUS GT720) RAM G.Skill DDR43000 CL16 2*8GB PSU: Corsair CV650 SSD NVME Corsair MP510 Windows 11 64b Everything was working well...
  37. K

    Question Gpu changed my pc is freeze!

    İm changed my PSU and GPU. Technic guy first open my pc and click to windows update. first opening i can see my full desktop and icons but other restart and i type my password just i can see windows bar in under, mouse icon can move but dont click anywhere already no have any icons in desktop...
  38. A

    Question Windows 11 PC freezes up suddenly ?

    PC Specs: MB: Asus Rog Strix B550-E Gaming CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S PSU: Corsair RM850 (2021), RM Series, 850 Watt 80 Plus RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz (CMW16GX4M2C3200C16W) / GPU: ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 3070 TI SSD1: Crucial P5 Plus CT1000P5PSSD8...
  39. N

    Question PC has short freezes every once in a while when gaming even with high FPS.

    So, about two weeks ago I noticed that when playing games, my PC would randomly freeze for under half a second every once in a while. At first I thought that it was only the one game I was playing, but when I tried other games, I still got the brief freezes. It seems that the freezing also...
  40. I

    Question PC starts freezing when cpu load is high?

    System specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core(brand new) CPU cooler: stock cooler Motherboard: ASUS Prime A320M-K Ram: Corsair CMK16GX4M2Z2933C16 Vengeance LPX 16GB 2933MHZ 2x8(brand new) SSD/HDD: Intenso SSD Sata 3 Top 512GB(system drive+brand new) + Crucial BX500 480GB CT480BX500SSD1 GPU: GTX...