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  1. K

    Question PC Deadlock Freezes and sometimes BSOD

    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...
  2. W

    Question PC freezes constantly and can't shut down

    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...
  3. A

    [SOLVED] PC Freezes when Idle or Miniscule Tasks - Please Help

    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...
  4. arifsjn

    Question PC Freeze Only When Stress Test

    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...
  5. S

    Question PC hard-lock ups driving me insane

    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...
  6. W

    Question Random BSOD's, FPS drops while gaming, need help troubleshooting

    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...
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    Question Startup freezes when I try to install Windows on my Chromebook ?

    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...
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    Question PC Randomly freezes and then restars as if I had pressed reset button

    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...
  9. A

    Question PC Stutters or Freezes every 30 seconds

    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...
  10. E

    Question Constant stuttering in games

    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...
  11. P

    Question Computer freezes when audio is to loud!

    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?
  12. SirBlaine

    Question Overheating and/or crashing with some games

    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...
  13. Molllydollly

    Question Built a gaming pc in april, started freezing randomly and only getting 40 fps, tried reinstalling windows and it keeps bluescreening during setup.

    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...
  14. darkwolfm

    Question High DPC LatencyMoon

    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...
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    [SOLVED] Losing my mind - black screens, restarts and crashes

    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...
  16. alexanderwe6

    Question Freezing Inputs?

    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...
  17. S

    Question Frequent mini-stuttering in games

    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...
  18. D

    Question PC freezing under low load

    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...
  19. angxlv

    Question Random stutters/freezes when under load Windows 10 after upgrading CPU and Motherboard

    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...
  20. R

    Question Screen freezes, disconects and reconnects.

    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...
  21. A

    Question Series of Problems with my new PC

    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...
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    [SOLVED] PC random freeze, HARD RESET required

    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...
  23. HDRANK

    [SOLVED] Consistently freezing while gaming, audio continues but display locks up forcing me to restart.

    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...
  24. ClassV

    [SOLVED] PC freezes if no processes are running, needs to be rebooted

    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...
  25. W

    Question PC froze then black screen with very weird artifacts

    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...
  26. raptor2012rom

    [SOLVED] Random Crashes and BSOD , is it a motherboard fault ?

    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...
  27. Tarmen

    Question Random freeze since the purchase of a new GPU

    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...
  28. K

    Question Weird computer freezing issue

    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...
  29. HelpMeI'mHopeless

    Question New PC randomly deadlock and needs to be force restarted.

    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...
  30. L

    Question does ssd failure cause freezing randomly?

    About a month ago my pc started to freeze randomly. At first it only happened in gaming but soon it happened more frequently, like in unziping, downloading, watching videos or browsing. Everytime when it freezed, first the software got stuck. In seconds I could only move the mouse but couldn't...
  31. J

    [SOLVED] System freezing and locking up

    I require some assistance in trouble shooting a frustrating issue with my brothers system, which has been working flawlessly since he built it in 2019. Windows recently started random locks-up/hangs where it requires him to manually power it down. It allows him to move the mouse and click apps...
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    Question New PC build Freezing up completely

    Intel i5 12400 Gigabyte B550 Gaming X DD4 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB GTX 1050 TI 500GB Corsair MX500 1TB WD Caviar Blue I leave my pc often to come back to it frozen; the audio just goes like when the PC BSODs, but no blue screen. Everything is brand new other than ssd, hdd and gpu. Runs...
  33. N

    Question Slow running

    For like a good period of time i've been experiencing slow running and even few seconds freeze when for example i am in a game and i go a bit alt+tab to search for something. Got an I5 4690k, 16GB rual RAM, Win 10, but the thing is it didn't happened before, but now it's just frustrating, it...
  34. E

    Question Computer shuts down while gaming

    My computer freezes, restarts or shuts down while playing games. It typically occours after 10 minutes or so. When I restart my computer and try to play again the error does not occour again. I have tried to stresstest and benchmark my computer without any problems. I have ran prime95, 3DMark...
  35. D

    Question Intermittent freezes & crashes after upgrading CPU ?

    I'm completely new here, so please forgive if this is the wrong forum. My pc has been running reliably for the last couple of years (since build). Ten days ago, I upgraded the processor from a Ryzen 5 to a Ryzen 9 5950X. Since then I have had some unexplained crashes, where the computer simply...
  36. R

    Question PC infected with a virus? Randomly dysfunctional

    Randomly today, my PC started acting weird, trouble closing applications and windows, troubleshooter stuck, internet/wifi not working, task manager freezes and numbers are static, control panel freeze, what is happening? And it keeps happening after about 15 minutes into computer use, and I have...
  37. B

    Question PC freezes and display turns off ?

    Ryzen 7 5800x with Strix LC240 AIO RTX 3070 OC Strix B550-F 2x16 GB 3600MHz C18 Team Group Night Hawks 1TB Aorus Gen4 M.2 SSD Seasonic Focus GX 650 Hey So, I've been struggling with this issue for a very long time. I'm not an expert, so I probably haven't tried everything. It happens only...
  38. L

    Question Cpu freezing on boot screen after upgrade (please help)

    So I recieved a rig for free from my buddy, I have been upgrading the parts to be able to game, I have been stuck on this problem for about 3 weeks now. I bought a ryzen 5 5600x In replacement for the ryzen 3 2200g, at first I thought it was the motherboard, so I got a replacement motherboard...
  39. W

    Question Brand new PC lagging and freezing

    Hi, I built a new PC, but it's very buggy. In Windows 10, the PC is lagging under really low load for no reason. Sometimes, the entire Windows Explorer.exe freezes and I have to force shutdown. Or there are just random, extremely weird bugs. Even Bluescreens used to occur (although I think the...
  40. rewind22

    Question New memory cause black screen

    Hey so i have a very old pc (inspiron 545) and bought new ram (8gb ddr2, 4x2gb). I had 6gb (2x1gb and 2x2gb mixed) ddr2 before. So I install it, had a bit of a hard time putting it on the motherboard but managed to do it. So I start my pc, launch a game and go to the toilet. Once i come back my...