freeze at idle

I've been having problems with my GPU driver for a very long time, and I still can't figure out how to fix it. Whenever my PC was idling, the screen freezes for 20 seconds and it blacks out. It happens in three different ways: -Screen blacks out and stays like that until I hard reset my PC by...

Hi all, Recently been getting the error "Realtek Gaming GbE Family Controller has a Hardware IO error." in event viewer popup. It has come out of the blue and had Windows 10 at the time it started popping up i tried upgrading to Windows 11 to see if that would help but did not change...

hello everyone~ I have system specs of: Core I7 10105 Gtx Super 1660 16 GB Ram 250 GB Samsung SSD And 2 TB HDD Why does my computer freeze from time to time?! I have had my PC almost for 2 years and my hard drive is still brand new, everything has run properly till now and it's nearly been 2...

Hi! I have a problem with my RTX 4080 Gaming OC from Gigabyte. My PC is working very unstable and it depends heavily on how I physically put my GPU into the PC. Applying different levels of support or pressure on GPU with a support bracket, accidental touching, moving cables inside of the...

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...

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...

The computer either completely freezes with the screens stuck on whatever I saw last until a hard power cycle, or the computer black screens and restarts itself. In the most recent one, we got full BSOD log reports. Happens randomly, but primarily while playing games. 1 a day on average...

Hello everyone, in summary, I upgraded my PC's motherboard and processor. After this, while using the computer for some time, minutes or a maximum of 2 hours, the screen freezes, or it simply restarts on its own. I have already performed some memory tests, and no defective bytes were found. I...

Not sure if this is the right thread to post this in as im new to this site but, my boyfriend bought me and him matching pc's. They are both prebuilds from best buy (this one here). Mine keeps randomly freezing during the most random times. like watching disney plus and having discord open or...

Hello, My PC at random times completely freezes, what i mean by that is that: The screen frezees, eventually the monitor goes in to the sleeping state. No audio is coming through Pressing caps lock, or num lock on keyboard does not light up that it is turned on. Meanwhile the computer seems...

Randomly the computer will just free displays will be on but mouse and keyboard don't work, can't short press to shutdown or reset need to hold in the power button to turn it off. Seems to happen mostly when the PC is idle it is used for processing data so will be under 100% load for hours. I...

I think this issue started since I started having 2 monitors with Adaptive Sync activated in the first one. I'm still experimenting and testing in various contexts, but this is the most probable cause because I didn't have any problems with my old computer build (I will list the differences with...

Hi guys - Got a very strange issue with my 2 month old PC - got a custom gaming build from Scan Computers that freezes when I leave it idling but not during gaming. The problem seems to happen more frequently when I've been gaming, come off the game and leave the PC idle. Nothing responds and I...

Hello tom's Hardware forums, I recently bought a used SSD for my PC. Its a SK Hynix PC300 NVMe 256GB Everything was fine at first with the SSD at first. CDI showed health at 99% and read and write speeds were normal. however my pc started to randomly freeze and reboot and when I downloaded...

Hello fellas, I haven't been on Tom's in a couple years and lost my account login. I have come at you with a strange scenario. Over the past few weeks, I upgraded parts in my PC one by one. In order I got 2x16 Vengeance LPX sticks, i5 13600k and a Gigabyte z690 UD DDR4, and finally a Radeon 7900...

GPU: MSI Radeon RX 570 ARMOR OC 4GB GDDR5 CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H Power Source: SilentiumPC Supremo FM2 650W 80 Plus Gold Hello! I have a weirdly specific issue with my GPU. It goes as follows: I use computer and it randomly (on input or sometimes even without...

Hi everyone! So basically I have a friend who’s brand new PC was constantly freezing when at idle, but worked perfectly fine when gaming. After some researching, he tried disabling the Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST) and Enhanced C-states (C1E) in bios, and it worked! Now his PC isn’t...