freeze

Hi, I built a pc about 4 months ago, it worked fine until yesterday. I was playing then had a black screen, I had to force shutdown and when booting windows froze on loading screen. Now every time I boot it freezes on the loading screen even in repair mode. I tried to plug a windows usb but it...

Hello all. I have a high end pc that I've had for just about a year now. Ever since it was first built, it has had issues with booting, issues with freeze framing/stuttering and issues with games crashing. I'll list my specs here and then afterwards go into a more detailed breakdown of the...

My monitor keeps freezing, and my speakers will make a loud, buzzing noise. The fans on my PC keep running though. It usually happens while gaming (though not on Valorant), but not necessarily. It can happen when I’m watching youtube or on Discord calls, when I’m downloading something etc. Im...

The other day I upgraded some parts to my computer and after everything was placed and I installed the new GPU drivers, it seemed fine, until randomly crashing while playing a game. The new parts were a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070TI Windforce, a Corsair RM850x 80+ GOLD, Samsung 2TB 970 EVO Plus...

Having a serious and consistent problem now with my PC On Idle, with no youtube etc... PC can go to sleep and not wake up unless I manual restart. Alternatively, it will just freeze the screen and need a hard reset to be usable again. When gaming, it can disconnect random USB ports and create...

So, I have a Ryzen 5 1600AF (Zen+) processor and an MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX motherboard. Before the upgrade, I had two Crucial green RAM sticks running at 2400 MHz, and I replaced them with G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200 (2x8GB) with 16 timings. I immediately enabled XMP in the BIOS, and everything...

So I moved across the country and my PC that was working perfectly now has issues. It wouldn't even post when I moved to my new house. The red LED for the CPU was on (on my mobo) so I took my CPU apart and cleaned it. I then put it back and my computer posted, but now my screen would freeze a...

Specs are at the bottom of this post. This happened twice, but I have not found a solution this time. The first time, I simply forgot to turn off my computer overnight, and had to force shut down in the morning. Then, when turning on, it would freeze after BIOS when trying to load the OS...

Before i get into the preamble of what lead up to this, I just want to clarify that for the time being I *just* want help getting my display working again, the rest can come after. Here are the components I'm using, except the case is different. I have a 2-monitor setup and about a week ago I...

I've been encountering frequent freezes on my PC while playing certain games, such as Rainbow Six Siege and Forza Horizon 5. The freezes result in a complete system lock-up, requiring a manual restart. Here are the details and troubleshooting steps I've taken: • PC freezes occur only during...

Recently I've been experiencing weird stutters and random program crashes (mostly) while playing games. The game (e.g CSGO) would crash either randomly, or freeze after almost every round for about 10 seconds. I haven't noticed a drastic FPS drop, the components aren't overloaded, but even after...

My used HP Elitebook 840 G3 doesn't boot into a live Linux USB. I gave up on trying to boot into Linux and then it locked me out of my own Windows OS. Attached is a picture of the lock out screen. It logs in, I haven't changed the default HP account with no password and then it proceeds to sign...

Hi, I had this exact problem a while back and it was resolved through getting a new SSD. However, I never knew the source of my problem. Basically my PC would just freeze on idle and would have to be hard reset in order to be used. It would also have weird extreme lag spikes occasionally while...

for the past week or two my PC has been freezing shortly after startup. after finally figuring how to boot in safe mode(why did they have to change it from just pressing f8 or whatever key to that convoluted way) and disabling all the startup programs I seemed to have fixed it. skip foward to 2...

Hi i recently started getting deadlocks that only happen when im gaming. When im browsing google or even stress testing my components it doesnt freeze. My keyboard and mouse stop working even LEDs on them and i have to restart holding the power button. The only games that doesnt cause freezing...

Age of Computer: 3.5 years Monitor LG UltraGear 34GN850-B Resolution 3440x1440 (34 inch) Screen Settings 144hz Adaptive-Sync On HDR OFF Response Time FAST DAS Mode ON Hardware SSD: Samsung 970 EVO 1TB M.2 HDD: Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM008 2TB CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X GPU: Gigabyte AORUS...

Hi my PC restarts randomly ,some times freezes and when I turn on the computer it starts but suddenly shuts down for bit like a few seconds and turns on again then boots normally or sometimes doesn't boot at all and it has a wierd problem that is not "mouse related" which is the cursor shows...

I got a new laptop in January this year(2023), and since then Im experiencing a strange situation where suddenly all my open applications start to not respond to click and then freeze. I can still open new applications but as soon as they start execution they also freeze. I cant shutdown by...

Hello, I bought a pre-built PC in december and have had some trouble with certain games but nothing that could not be resolved with some tweaks like turning off steam/geforce experience/EA/ubisoft connect overlay, setting the texture filtering from quality to performance from nvidia control...

Hello, hopefully someone here can help me. I recently had a custom pc built for me through cyberpower. I decided to go all out (on my budget at least): Specs: MSI MPG Z690 FORCE Intel i9-13900K GeForce RTX 3080 10GB 32GB Fury DDR5 6000mhz RAM Corsair 1000 watt PSU Corsair 240mm liquid cooler...

Hi all, I want to share something weird with my computer. I cannot say when but I started to notice this a few weeks ago. I race racegames on a triple screen setup. More specific, the game AMS2. My setup includes 3*1440p monitors. Now, after a session, which are multiple races, and that is...

I recently built a new PC, and immediately started struggling with freezes. After switching out various components, I came to the conclusion that my CPU wasn't working correctly, and so I ordered another one thinking I'd return the old one later. (I'd already tried different RAM, motherboard...

It's been months that I'm experiencing random freezes on my pc, it started almost as soon as I bought it and I can't relate it to some change or accident. Most of the time it freezes while I'm just using the browser and often it happened while no user program was running. After the freeze I...

Hi, after a Nvidia gpu driver update, all of my games started freezing randomly, like 5 seconds fluid gameplay, and then a freeze for 1 sec. It also happens more frequently when I rotate the camera inside the game. I tried DDU, clean gpu driver install, but it didn't work. Can you help me...

My PC running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS started hanging in random moments, after I brought it with me on an international plane (it's in a tiny mini-ITX case, so I took it with me as hand luggage and handled with care). When I boot Memtest86+ from GRUB, it starts but hangs at 1 second mark without...

Hey, I seem to have a problem with my PC and I was wondering if anyone could help me or direct me to something that could help me. The specifications: Motherboard - Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master GPU - MSI RTX 2080 ti 11 GB VRAM GDDR6 CPU - AMD...

Hello, I have problem with my Lenovo Ideapad 5 15ARE05 (Ryzen 4700, 16GB RAM, Win 11, no dedicated GPU). Laptop was turned on a desk with only browser opened, I didn't use it for around hour and a half and screen just got all messy and turned off. So I had to turn it off by long press of the...

For a couple of weeks now when I wake up my PC is frozen. I have alarms set in a website and those do not go off. this happens every single night. sometimes i can see the windows with some errors and can click around but slowly the computer becomes unusable. after a reset, it is fine for the...

I was recently having issues with windows 10 freezing randomly, and suspected my SSD failed. I ended up replacing my SSD and RAM. Did a fresh install of windows too, PC returned to normal and now days later its crashing again. The last crash was caused by right clicking and windows explorer...

Hi all, Yesterday I made the leap of upgrading to the 7900XT to be future proof towards 4K gaming. Initially ordered 3070, but returned it. I installed the new card today and was able to play a few games, but quite soon my pc started freezing which resulted in resetting it. First it happened...

Hi! Weird issue (I think) Like once or twice an hour my PC emmits a fast clicking sound (like 5 notes), and i cant locate which component causes this. Directly after this sound/during this happends: Video and sound freezes for a few seconds, often the audio also "glitches" during this time or...

Long story short: I posted about my PC freezing/crashing recently here: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/newly-built-pc-crashing-freezing-volmgr-162.3794717/#post-22927737. I thought I had fixed the problem, but turns out I only made the freezes way less frequent. Now, instead of freezing...

Good afternoon fellow pc enthusiasts :). I've got a bit of a conundrum. My PC will freeze/lock up whenever I'm gaming, and during completely random intervals forcing me to power off manually. This occurs randomly and could be 3 minutes into gaming, or 3 hours. Has not however occur during a GPU...

Hello, new here. I recently built my new PC from used parts, except for PSU: -Gigabyte z390m -I7-9700 -1070 Ti -1x16 Gb 3200 MHz RAM, Kingston (Will change to 2x8 soon) -Samsung 980 M.2 SSD -Fractal Ion Gold 650W PSU -Win 11 Everything runs fine, stresstests pass, games are smooth and...

Hi, I've been having these troubles for a while now, its not technically unusable but it is so very annoying. GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT RAM: HyperX Fury RGB DDR4 3200MHz 4x8 GB Storage: (C:) Kingston A2000 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD; (D:) Seagate 2TB - HDD; (F:) Seagate 1TB - HDD; (H:) Crucial®...

I know this sounds as if the problem is the SSD drive but I thought maybe there is a way to reformat it? It's started happening 6 months ago when I purchased the SSD and since that day I had random PC freezes, I cannot find out exactly why would a PC freeze since I cannot see anything in the...

Im trying to understand whats wrong with my computer so i'll talk about this here too. I have a gtx 1050 Ti, i5-7600, 16GB RAM, 1tb m2 ssd. I havent played for some time and now that i want to start again I cant, because i get very low fps on games like fortnite, with lots of freezing. Task...

Hello everyone, sorry this is going to be a long post but I am kinda scared right now since this is a very new PC and I want to offer as much context and information as possible. I have AMD gpu and cpu and I build this with a friend who has build a few computers before. Backstory, last night I...

Hello, I've recently come across an issue where my Nvidia GTX 1650Ti Laptop Graphics card is not detecting on my windows. The problem started with my windows freezing and crashing with the blue screen of death error. After restarting, the same thing happened again after some time and then I...

i wouldn't have surprised if i connected fan to motherboard while computer is running and something goes wrong. but i connected sata cable of powersupply to extra single fan when computer was running, and whole computer just freezed, nothing worked not even keyboard or mouse. my extra fan...