freezing computer

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  1. A

    Question PC totally not responding, but the cursor still moves ?

    So basically I have owned 3 PCs to date and I had all of them running windows 11... But i have been experiencing similar problems for the past 5-6 months... My computer just suddenly stops responding but my cursor still works... I can't do cntrl+alt+del or anything else to the computer other...
  2. logikakakosieimai

    Question Constant lag spikes ?

    hello i just got a new graphics card and now on many games my pc is under performing with lag spikes in game and being slow in general while my fps average high and dosent really drop. the specs that i got are: motherboard: gigabyte B550M DS3H Micro ATX cpu: Ryzen 5 5600X gpu: gigabyte geforce...
  3. mypccrashes

    Question New PC freezing and randomly crashing ?

    Hi, My new PC randomly crashes a few times a day during the simplest tasks like opening Gmail and using MS Teams or Exel. First, it is frozen for a few moments and then it is restarting. It's really confusing because demanding tasks like gaming don't cause any issues. Here is the log from...
  4. M

    Question PC Freezing (No visible BSOD)

    Hi, Would just like to get advice as my PC has been randomly freezing up these past few days and I can't work out why. I'll lay out the details below: General Description PC freezes up and becomes completely unresponsive, so far only when just browsing, with low cpu and gpu load. No visible...
  5. MrPasta

    Pc freezes often and i have to restart

    My computer's components are: Amd Ryzen 5 5600x Amd rx 6600 XT 16 gigs of ram (2×8) Gskill ripjaws set to 3200mhz 3 disks 1 nmvme samsung evo 500gb 1 ssd 250gb 1 hdd 1tb MSI mortar max b450m Psu thermaltake smart rgb 700w Is there a way to stop the computer from freezing? The freezing is really...
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    Question PC randomly freezes, can still hear and talk on discord though.

    I built my pc about 6 months ago and never had any issues with it until recently. I can't truly remember but I think it started after installing Windows 11. Just as the title says, the pc will randomly freeze (both monitors) while playing games and/or watching Twitch on the other monitor...
  7. G

    Question CPU Cooler - Not stable - PC crashing

    Hi, My PC keeps freezing and restarting at random intervals. Most of the time, doesn't even get to the bootup screen, at this time, can clearly hear the CPU/Fan is not making the usual noise when trying to startup. Power off and power on sometimes makes a noise that CPU/fan is starting, gets to...
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    Question PC Freezing 5-10 min after gaming. Won't boot for 5 minutes

    CPU: Ryzen 9 3900x MB: Asus AM4 TUF Gaming X570-Plus Wifi GPU: Geforce RTX 2080 SUPER RAM: G.SKILL NT Series 8GB DDR4 2133 (x2) PSU: EVGA - 750W GQ As the titles says my pc will freeze around 5 minutes from when I start gaming. This is not every game but it seems to be on games that would be...
  9. Cuchiee

    Question Pc freezes randomly with no recovery.

    Basically, my computer hard freezes when i'm doing absolutely nothing at all. This also happens very frequently in games. My computer just freezes and then there is no signal to the monitor. I have noticed that this usually happens either when my cpu is stressed or im playing games. I tried...
  10. Y

    Question PC freezes randomly even at idle.

    So for the past few months my pc has been freezing to either a black screen(with the fans going full speed and the post code display showing 00 on my motherboard) or just freezing, power button wont even respond meaning I'll have to flip the power switch on the PSU to restart my computer, and...
  11. Tank Commander

    [SOLVED] Pc freezes for a few seconds randomly

    So recently my pc has been freezing randomly for a few seconds and then continues to work normaly I can move the mouse but everything else is frozen. My ssd is new and is >50% empty and i dont think it is from that I have changed the Power Supply, the ram and the video card with new ones but the...
  12. Hugelham

    Question My computer keeps freezing!

    Hello all. My computer keeps on randomly freezing and I have tried everything. I have a water cooled i9-10900k using the nzxt kraken 360. I just installed a asus tuf 3080ti with a 850wat power supply. My mother board is the msi z490 gaming plus, and I have two 16gb trident g.skill memory. The...
  13. A

    Question Computer freezes, Caps lock button has no action, having to hold power button to restart ?

    About a month ago my pc started freezing up. When it does I can't do anything. Nothing on the keyboard reacts, mouse, anything. It has done it while gaming, although not much. Most of the time its when idling or slight web browsing with power point or word open. It froze just after i put it in...
  14. Vorthulus

    Question Custom built PC locking up and freezing

    My custom built PC ( Yes I built it myself and probably messed it up first time builder ) when booted up will slowly over a span between 8 - 10 min will lock up and not respond; can't wake it from sleep, screen still on try to interact / move mouse no response and the only thing that brings it...
  15. Nathan Tripodi

    Question PC Freezes randomly forever resulting in me needing to force shutdown

    My pc will randomly freeze whether I'm playing a heavy intense game that uses a lot of CPU % or just opening chrome and windows explorer. With using task manager I've have figured out that the freezing happens when the CPU gets to 98%. But sometimes the computer will freeze when opening chrome...
  16. B

    Question PC Randomly Freezes

    I recently had opened my pc up to clean out the dust out of the fans. I didn't really touch any circuitry or to stay clear of ESD. On reassembling it, the PC now will randomly freeze, doesn't really matter what I'm doing. I ran hardware tests: OCCT and Prime95 separately. The PC will...
  17. J

    Question NEED HELP, System is insanely laggy and unresponsive.

    I recently put on a new thermal paste on my CPU and GPU. All I did was take off my AIO block and the GPU block and replaced the thermal paste. Now when I boot my PC it is almost completely unresponsive and insanely laggy. I have already gone into the bios to check thermals and my CPU reads at a...
  18. B

    Question Random freezes

    Greetings, I'm having issues with laptop freezing at random times and it looks like I need some assistance. Windows 8.1 is the primary OS, no BSOD or crash, it just stops responding to any user input and only power switch restores it to working state. Even power switch sometimes doesn't...
  19. T

    [SOLVED] PC freezes after power outage. Don't know how to follow through!

    I had a power outage that lasted a split second and I can't figure out why my PC freezes after I log in. Occasionally, I'll get a BSOD with WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR and CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT, but most of the time I'll get a cursor loading circle and it'll freeze on the Desktop right after...
  20. J

    [SOLVED] PC is freezing, RGB freezing and artifacting ?

    So to begin with this is my system GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3070 GAMING Z TRIO 8GB LHR MOBO: MSI - MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16GB (2x8GB) COOLER: Corsair iCUE H100i ELITE CAPELLIX Liquid CPU Cooler, 240mm Radiator PSU: Corsair 750W SF750 High...
  21. X

    [SOLVED] Can resetting Windows affect hardware?

    Hi, About a week ago I reset windows because I wanted to clear out some files and to just start fresh with no programs or anything. I like to do this once every few years, and the times I've done it before (all times were with the same hardware), it worked completely fine. However this time...
  22. M

    Question Continuous problems with pc shut down

    Hi. Lately i have experienced many troubles with my pc, not only one specific problem, but multiple. The problems are the following: Recently my pc has blackscreened multiple times a day, usually when gaming, and the only thing i can do is to force a shutdown. Most of the times when this...
  23. T

    Question PC freezing entirely during games, but otherwise "stable" ?

    I'd made a previous post but I wanted to do a quick refresh with some updated information (hope that's okay) So I can leave the system running for days with no issues what so ever, no freezes nothing of the sort and it'd be fine. I can play low impact games like Crusader Kings II. I can still...
  24. elenamx

    [SOLVED] PC randomly freezing after installing AIO Cooler

    I've recently improved my PC setup with an AIO Cooler from Corsair (H100i RGB Platinum SE 240mm) and an extra HDD. After installing this, I've had issues with random display freeze and having to reboot the PC through the power button. During the freezes where I've had CPU and GPU monitoring...
  25. Zoratix

    Question PC freezing/crashing when loading Cold War ?

    My computer has been freezing sometimes when I load Cold War or when I get to the part where I pick my class in mp. It will work one day then the next it will freeze and won’t work. I have tried over 30 things including scanning and repairing, reinstalling shaders, trying to swap out graphics...
  26. E

    Question PC freezing randomly for second while gaming ?

    Hello guys i have this pc: ryzen 5 3600 with nzxt cooling rx 5700 xt b450m-k Ram 16 gb 3000mhz 600w psu some ssd and hdd I have this problem about some 3 months. While gaming it freeze randomly for second or two and then go normally but after whlie randomly freeze again. It happens many times...
  27. D

    Question PC Turns on but no display

    I've been having this problem for the past few days. I have my PC set to sleep after a specific hour every day at night. When I noticed this problem happening, my PC kept freezing and lagging even for minor things like opening a file or closing a program. It could take from 10-30 seconds frozen...
  28. C

    Question PC Freezing fully.

    So I have had this pc since mid 2019, I had finished the build July 18th 2019. Specs: (OLD) GPU:ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2070 Overclocked 8G CPU: Intel i79700k PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000w 80+ Gold MOBO: MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Edge AC LGA1151 RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB DDR4 3000 COOLER...
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    Question PC freezes but mouse still moves

    Hello For weeks now my PC will freeze but for some reason I can still move my mouse and close applications that are open. At this point I think it’s a hardware problem but I’m not sure. Some days I can leave the PC on all day and then it’ll freeze while other days it’ll freeze quickly after...
  30. Wasabak

    Question Secondary HDD under 100% load after my pc froze and the drive mysteriously dissapeared

    Hello there, I have a problem with my secondary HDD, it is under 100% load. It happened after my pc suddenly froze when I was just browsing internet. I had to do manual restart. But after I reached desktop, I found out that my secondary HDD is missing, even device manager didnt find it, so I...
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    Question Computer randomly freezes

    Hi, please could someone help me solve my issue of my computer randomly freezing or provide me with other things i can try. The computer just freezes on whatever i have up at the time of it happening & i have to hold the power button to turn the computer off & then turn it back on again. (no...
  32. f3rninator

    [SOLVED] PC Keeps Freezing After 20min of Gaming

    This has been a huge issue for quite some time now. Normally I'm able to find solutions within a couple days of googling everything, this is the first time I've ever come to a forum for help! Anytime I'm playing a high resource demanding game, I'm only able to game for about 20 minutes (give or...
  33. Gxzs

    Question Computer fully freezes after 10-15 Minutes of gameplay

    My pc freezes after playing some games for 10-15 minutes. This happens with all NFS Games, Bf1 and Bf5, CarX and Rainbow6. In addition, I can run Cs:Go without any problems. When it freezes the sound of e.g. music will still go on but I can't do anything as the screen is fully frozen, to get out...
  34. wubblebubble69

    [SOLVED] PC will never stop BSOD or hard freezing...NO MATTER WHAT

    Ok here is the summary of what I have going on. My PC will not stop BSOD or freezing. Getting Kernel Security Check Failure, Machine Check Exception, and lots and lots of Whea Uncorrectable Error. More often now I'm getting straight hard freezing(a lot). This normally happens when I'm on...
  35. Ledyba

    [SOLVED] PC Freezes While Gaming, Forcing Hard Shut-Down

    Recently, I got into PSO2 and during gameplay, my PC will freeze with looping audio (buzzing sound) and I am forced to hard shut-down my PC. I've encountered this before with Fallout 76 and assumed it was just the game. I've not encountered this issue with any other game I have played. I've...
  36. Ace52

    [SOLVED] Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 5 - B2 Error Code when trying to play games

    Every time I open a game it would load up just fine but as soon as I start playing, it would freeze and give me a blank screen. I can't alt tab or ctrl alt delete. The only way to turn it off is to either flip the switch or press the restart button which gives me a black screen and a code B2 on...
  37. BuffaloBob1

    Question Computer Freezing due to Static Shock

    My computer freezes every so often for about a second when a static shock from one of my cats, or me in a blanket, sends a shock through the desk. This is pause any video, videogame, or movie I'm trying to watch, and many programs will crash or permanently freeze, which is really getting on my...
  38. C

    Question Pc freezes randomly

    Hello, For the last two weeks I've encountered a problem (its increased in frequency today) with my pc freezing randomly while doing anything. The cursor stops moving and I notice that the caps lock key doesn't light up/turn off when i press it. The screen also becomes unresponsive, but the pc...
  39. L

    Question Computer freezing up. Some particularly odd symptoms.

    Before I describe my problem, know that I DID google it and look it up here and nothing included the weird signs that my computer in particular has. So, as of about a month ago, my computer started to periodically freeze. The display's state remains, but it's otherwise completely unresponsive...
  40. D

    Question PC Freezes 5 min into gaming session. Sound of Disconnection in the background

    Hello guys. 1,5 year ago i've build a PC which i use for gaming and some graphic design project at my home. My specs are: ASUS PRIME X470-PRO AMD Ryzen 5 2600 MSI GeForce RTX 2060 6GB Ventus XS OC Corsair RMx Series 750W 2018 G.SKILL F4-3600C18D-16GTZRX 16GB (2X8GB) DDR4 3600MHZ TRIDENT Z RGB...