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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...

For as long as I can remember my PC when mostly playing any game or even sometimes on google or the desktop it deadlock freezes, So i have to turn off the PC from the switch and turn it back on. In the event manager I get code 41 Kernel-power. I also sometimes get BSOD, some of the faults were...

PC Specs: i5 12400f Gigabyte B660 DS3H AX DDR4 WIFI Corsair Ballistic DDR4 2x8GB RAM MSi GTX 1060 3GB Crucial P2 m.2 1TB EVGA supernova G650 This is a somewhat new build with some parts (PSU and GPU) reused from my old PC and was built around April this year. I've pretty much had some kind of...

Hey guys, I have an ASUS P6TD Motherboard with 16GB RAM installed but I have a feeling I'm not utilizing this properly based on other folk's advice. I was advised to change the RAM mhz in BIOS, preferably to the 2nd closest speed to my RAM's capability listed there ("If RAM is running at 2666...

Hi, this problem has been bugging me out since 2 months ago. So basically my PC freeze when I do stress test using OCCT , Furmark and AMD Adrenaline Software (always around 2-5 seconds into the benchmark). I've been playing AAA games such as GOW and The Witcher 3 without any issue. But i'm...

Hi all, I am seeking some assistance from the tom's Hardware collective please to stop me going insane! First I guess the info of the system: Windows 10 Pro, build 19044 (up to date) I9 9900K, not overclocked - bios all default settings / auto 2x8GB Corsair DDR4 2132 w/XMP @ 3596 - non XMP...

Hey all. Recently I've been facing a pretty troublesome issue with my machine. I've been getting random freezes, usually followed by BSOD's, with the error code WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR, on top of occasional low framerates while playing games. When gaming, this issue comes out of nowhere, after...

I’ve been trying to install windows 7 on my chromebook (hp11 g5), but when the first dots appear it freezes. It’s not just my chromebook, I tried to install it on my primary computer which is a HP-15-dy2093dx. I know the ISO file works because it works when I run it in a vm. anyone have an idea...

Build Ryzen 5 5600X 2x8gb Kingston Fury Beast KF436C17BB/8 3600mhz Asus Cerberus 1050ti Asus Prime B550M-K Kingston KC3000 1 TB m2 I upgraded my Motherboard, CPU and RAM last week, and since then is that I've been having this issue, where as long as I'm using the pc it randomly freezes...

Hi Community, The past couple months my PC has been either stuttering or freezing every 30 seconds to a minute. It is becoming unbearable just to do common tasks, much less gaming. I know there are probably a thousand things that may be causing this, but wonder if there a some simple things I...

Hi guys, i've recently upgraded from a placeholder gt 730 to a sapphire rx 6700 non-xt i got on sale a couple weeks ago, and ever since i've experienced stuttering in games. Spider-man remastered, cyberpunk, warzone 2.0, apex legends etc. are all stuttering (either nasty stutters or constant...

My computer freezes when I turn up audio to loud like music or in games. I have tried updating drivers and cleaning up my system to see if that would be the problem but it is still an issue. I don't know what to try anymore hopefully someone else has had this issue before and knows how to fix it?

Hello everyone, it seems that I may be in need of some help regarding my pc. I already had a long and unhelpful chat with the manufacturerer's support service. Whats the problem? Or more specific the problems? 1. While playing some games that require quite a lot of performance, my pc tends to...

Hi. So as the title says, my computer is probably ruined. I can't get it to do anything. I just built it. During the windows 10 setup it either freezes, blue screens, or just turns black. The leds stay lit up but the screen is black. I had someone hack all my stuff last year and my fiance...

So I was experimenting some freezes on my Alienware 15 R2 Its very unpredictable but happens every 40 min - 1 hour of using it, the display freeze out only for 2 secs, and if I have sound the same thing happen. These are my Specs: Windows 11 Ram: 16 GB SSD 128 + HDD 1 TB Nvidia 980M LatencyMon...

Hi all, I’ve been having on and off issues for the past year with my PC. I originally did an entirely new build with the exception of the PSU (EVGA 800W) with the specs of: I7 -11700k ASUS Z290-A 32GB Corsair dominator DDR4 ASUS Aorus RTX 3080 Windows 10 A few other bits of info. My pc has a...

This issue has happened a couple times, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to why. During an Overwatch game, I was walking forward, could not push any keys, move the mouse, could not control alt delete, could not alt tab. I can still hear the game and discord, but they cannot hear me in...

So, for like 1-2 months I'm struggling with mini stuttering in games. Here is the video how stutters look like. Usually stutters are smaller, but sadly frequent. My spec: CPU: I5-7500 GPU: AORUS RX 580 8GB RAM: 16GB Dual-Channel DDR4 1066MHz MOBO: ASRock H110M DVS R3.0 PSU: Corsair CX450M 450W...

It all started about 2 years ago when I encountered this issue (short version: PC freezes caused by NZXT CAM, mostly on Ryzen systems). I uninstalled CAM and the issue was gone. Now since a few months it has come back with a vengeance, often freezing the PC multiple times a day. First the...

So I recently upgraded my motherboard and cpu, but recently when gaming or have a game open in the background I have random stutters/freezes which seems like if I alt tabbed in game and comes back. But, it’s not exactly an alt tab, during these stutters/freezes also I cannot move my keyboard and...

My PC randomly freezes for a couple of seconds, and the both my monitors go black to reconnect almost instantly. It's been happening for a while and I thought it was a PSU problem but I recently replaced both the PSU and the GPU and it keeps happening. I'd appreciate if anyone could help with...

It is a long story so buckle up. I bought a new PC in September with so much happiness that I finally got a good PC with the following Specs: CPU: Intel Core i7-12700K 3.6 GHz Mobo: MSI MPG Z690 EDGE WIFI ATX LGA1700 RAM: Kingston FURY Beast 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-5600 Storage 1...

Hello all! Yesterday for the first time EVER, I had this issue twice while gaming, would appreciate if yall have any insights or thoughts! There's no specific moment or scenario that triggers this, or at least I haven’t found it yet. So I played Overwatch 2 and Dota 2 and while playing, the...

EDIT/UPDATE: So my computer has been 100% stable for overclocking after disabling Logitech Gaming software from startup and not using it when gaming. If you have symptoms similar to mine, disable any lighting control apps and see if your system becomes stable. PC Specs: OS: Windows 11...

I've had this problem for a while, and it seemed to stop itself, although now it has come back in the past couple days a bit more consistently. Basically if I don't have a game, discord, or a video/stream playing, my computer runs the chance of just freezing all my screens and needing to be...

Hi, I was playing OW2 on my newly built PC which had been running for like 8 hours and suddenly everything froze, no sound, no response and after like 15 secs the screen suddenly went black but showed some artifacts. I had to force shut down using the power button. After starting it again, it...

Hi guys. I have some of an old PC that I can't seem to fix. I got random freezes in the system or while gaming sometimes. At the time I've got 12gb RAM (4gb Crucial and 8gb kingston). Thought the motherboard (Asrock 960gm-vgs3 fx) wasn't compatible with the ram so I bought 2x 4GB sticks of...

Hello everyone! I hope you are all well. I would like to thank in advance the people who will take the time to help me with my problem. I would also like to point out that I am not a computer expert, so I may not understand some of the terms. Here is my problem; Several weeks ago, I bought a...

Im having a really weird issue where my computer will randomly freezes and all rgp on my mousepad and keyboard will turn off. The picture on the screen will be frozen so the date and time wont update on the screen. When I try to hold the power button to turn it off, it never turns off, so I have...

I built a new PC and almost every day it freezes randomly. Usually when it freezes I only have Chrome open. Doesn't happen during gaming sessions. Everything becomes unresponsive. Caps lock button doesn't light up. I need to hold down the power button and restart whole PC. There is no pattern...