freezing

Forum discussion tagged with freezing.
  1. N

    Question Display Drivers keep Crashing AMD NVIDIA

    Hi I'm relatively new to pc gaming and I am currently unaware of what is causing my display drivers to crash on my new gaming pc that I built, the components are pretty high end and I am certain I installed all the correct drivers however as I'm using my computer the drivers constantly crash...
  2. N

    Question Is my GPU causing the stutters that I get while gaming ?

    So first of all, I have tried everything and nothing seems to fix my stutters while gaming. It's usually under half a second and is more noticeable in more demanding games. Even though the gameplay is is smooth overall with high FPS, I get stutters. I believe the issue is most likely my GPU...
  3. carlc4

    Question Random freezing & crashing ?

    I've been having random freezing / crashes for years. Every time the screen will freeze and I'm able to move the mouse around for a few seconds and then completely freezes. Audio will play from whatever audio was going before the crash, video game or youtube video, for a pretty long time before...
  4. Zeus95_

    Question Hard Drive light is solid red on pc tower and the PC freezes at startup

    When I boot up my PC, the PC freezes abruptly and the HDD light on the PC tower is solid red. Even if I try to boot into Windows Installer USB, the PC freezes sometimes at "starting windows", or sometimes when it does go into the installer, it freezes randomly. It doesn't even respond to mouse...
  5. ChaosPhoenix

    Question PC freezing issue - - - I am going absolutely crazy and have tried everything ?

    I have been having this issue for probably well over a year now. I have scoured the internet for many months to no avail, and last night I finally bit the bullet and reset my Windows.... and I am still having issues. So there are two major issues with my system, one that largely doesnt affect...
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    Question Windows needs drivers to run but can't run stable enough without the drivers to install the drivers.

    I feel like a dog chasing its tail. Is there a way to load the drivers from the bios or add them to the windows installation media? New build, new install. Windows is on the drive and will occasionally boot into the home screen, within a few secs/mins it will either freeze or bsod. I know how to...
  7. Matak

    Question My USB devices have intermittent issues depending on different circumstances ?

    Hi everyone, I'm dealing with a very specific issue with my setup for months now, more specifically with my USB peripherals . The setup: 1 mic, 1 keyboard and 1 mouse all connected to a powered USB hub that is connected to my PC. The main issue: The devices seem to be freezing for seconds the...
  8. S

    Question Windows 11 slow motion or stuttering bug

    I've had a weird issue for a while now on both my desktop and laptop where infrequently, let's say once a day or so, the whole system goes into extreme slow motion or stutter for about 2 seconds and then comes right out of it like nothing happened. This affects everything on screen whether I'm...
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    Question Every game freezes and crashes on a good gaming PC?

    I get small fps drops like 1-2 fps and every game just freezes. For example in every game i play i get consistent 60 fps but every 2-3 min ill drop 2-3 fps and the game will just freeze for a second. This has happened in: God Of War 2018,Star Wars Jedi fallen Order, Assassins Creed Origins. My...
  10. K

    Question PC freezing post boot ?

    Hi, I'm not sure where the best place for this post is. I hope I selected the correct one. I'm having trouble with my gaming pc. It's freezing on the "MAG" Screen after it get's passed the ability to get into bios. My motherboard is a MSI Tomahawk B550. The power went out twice yesterday and...
  11. linxxln

    Question Daily freezing on my new PC

    Please excuse my ignorance, I am not the most "tech savvy" human I just recently bought a prebuilt IBUYPOWER PC on Black Friday. I have had dozens of freezes since then. I installed two M.2's in it one being brand new and one being from my old laptop. The freezing feels kind of random, the only...
  12. Dillonr93

    Question Mystery Stuttering On High End PC. No resolution after 1 year of troubleshooting.

    Hello all, I am returning again after prematurely marking my last post as solved. I thought my issue was resolved, but it had only improved slightly but never went away. A little over a year ago I build a high end gaming and workstation pc. Ever since it was built, it has been stuttering both in...
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    Question New GPU Crashes PC RX6600

    I just got a new gpu RX 6600 Sapphire PULSE, used DDU installed latest drivers checked my BIOS and it still keeps crashing when i try to do anything "heavy" computer immediately turns black but i hear the sound check the video - Here is a video, sound is still playing. Also before that i was...
  14. Xeodus

    Question Cursor movement lag, audio glitching, then black screen or blue screen ?

    I need help i need to know which component is most likely to be causing this problem My pc will have random lags, my audio starts glitching out at the same rate that my mouse is glitching out. My mouse input will be very laggy as if it dropped to 10 hz polling rate, and i will barely be able to...
  15. passhaa

    Question My monitor freezes like 5-10 seconds ?

    Hello everyone. I have a monitor issue ( i think ) . Here is the problem : While the 3/2 part of the monitor freezes where it last left off, the upper part looks like the picture. I can see the mouse movement in the top 1 cm area. I used to have a DP cable about 2 weeks ago and this problem...
  16. Hauntingness

    Question One-year old CyberpowerPC freezes randomly ?

    Hi, so I wanted to share this concern of mine regarding this new PC I bought about a year ago, it's mostly concerning because it's been doing it a lot constantly and I can pinpoint when it happens usually. I feel like I overpaid for this computer and completely regret because my old PC seems to...
  17. M

    Question Computer freezes and I can't figure out why ?

    I've been using an older/budget PC for quite some time but now it is behaving in a weird way. It's freezing every day a few times per session and mostly when just browsing the web or switching windows, but never when gaming. The way it freezes is that at first I'm free to move around the mouse...
  18. Nitro192

    Question Avid PC Gamer/Enthusiast. Odd issue can't seem to diagnose.

    So recently I have been noticing an issue that suddenly just showed up one day. When playing games that are very resource hungry like Red Dead 2 and MSFS. Game will play fine at first then suddenly massive freezes where not only the game will freeze but the entire PC. It will last for about 20...
  19. Qaerus

    Question Games freezing and stuttering on 2017 prebuilt

    I have this prebuilt that I got back from 2017. I upgraded it with a SATA Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB and two 8 GB sticks of Corsair Vengence RAM. Just over the past year I've been having some performance issues with it in games that I never had a problem with. Games will freeze and stuttering and...
  20. BananaMonkey

    Question Application freezes / crashes (games & discord) + weird artifacting?

    Hey all, seemingly randomly my computer has started to crash when attempting to run games or discord (The application freezes (no error) then I usually close it myself). I first experienced the crashes just last week while playing a Minecraft Modpack, my game would freeze after a few minutes...
  21. K

    Question M.2 SSD slow speeds - SSD started freezing my PC when i was downloading from Steam ?

    My SSD is Lexar 1TB, it's 70% full and i have been using it for 1.5 years, during the test there weren't any other apps in background running, my motherboard is ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS (WI-FI) with newest BIOS version + chipsets are updated - speeds should be around 6K - 8K. Yesterday i...
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    watchdog.sys deadlock

    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. I search for this on the internet but i...
  23. GoodGuyZap

    Question Computer Randomly freezing / Discord losing audio

    Hey guys. My pc has been freezing a lot since around a week ago. This issue essentially involves my game or PC temporarily freezing for only 1-2 seconds at most, and then it is fine, however my Discord audio completely cuts out and I cannot hear anyone / they cannot hear me. The best fix I...
  24. S

    Question What motherboard/cpu/ram should I get?

    Hi there! I have a decent gaming pc that I've had for about 9 years now. I run most games fine (medium to ultra) at 1440p 144hz but I'm struggling with PUBG, which is a problem as I've gotten into playing it competitively lately. I suffer from extreme freeze spikes, which I'm fairly sure is due...
  25. I

    Question PC hard freezing/hanging after swapping PSU

    Today i replaced my old psu to corsair rm850e and suddenly my pc started to hard freeze/hang after i play any game for more than like 15 minutes. I have to restart the PC with restart button on the case because the screen is completely frozen but i can still hear sounds. Nothing is shown in...
  26. fabiano_2

    Question Iris Xe possibly freezing windows

    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...
  27. kobe.jennison08

    Question Corsair Vengeance RGB Mismatch Problems

    Hey Guys. So i've been having problems since upgrading my RAM and I think I've now realised why... I started off with 2 x 16gb sticks of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro (CMW32GX4M2E3200C18) but stupidly made the mistake of later on purchasing another 2 x 16gb set of the same Corsair Ram, but...
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    Question PC locks up for 15-20 seconds after booting into Windows , then it's completely fine ?

    Hello :) After booting into windows I can wiggle my mouse around but after a few seconds it starts to jitter/stutter around the screen then returns to normal and does that a few times before locking up completely then returning to normal after about 15 seconds of it locking up. I tried...
  29. julian_lj

    [SOLVED] Mouse cursor randomly freezing momentarily... again?

    Hi all! I'm slightly embarrassed to bring this back, and I'm not so sure how you're supposed to do this on this forum - apologies if I'm doing this the wrong way, and please let me know if there's a better way to do this. So I made a post about ten days ago about a freezing problem with my...
  30. A

    Question My PC freezes and I'm required to hard reboot ?

    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...
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    [SOLVED] Windows 11 freezing randomly

    System Specs: Ryzen 9 7900X Asus Strix B650E-F M 32GB Corsair Vengeance Powercooler Radeon 7900XTX Red Devil 1TB WD Black NVMe GEN 4 850w MSI PSU NZXT Kraken X73 360mm AIO Issue: I recently installed Windows 11 after purchasing the 1TB WD Black NVMe to upgrade from my 2 old Samsung NVMe drives...
  32. NinjaPuffE

    Question Computer Starting to Run Worse

    For a while, my PC has been running games well enough for me. Lately, my CPU has been getting very hot. I have had trouble with this in the past and the solution was new thermal paste so I reapplied but that didn't solve my issues. Trying to run games like Valorant or Apex Legends causes my PC...
  33. N

    Question PC stuttering, audio crackling and visual freezing

    Hi. My problem is as follows: PC stutters quite often, when this happens, most notable is the audio crackling. It reminds me of a FPS drop, this is also simultaneously notable when running a game. Screen freezes for a few milliseconds, you know the usual, I think. Example: I start my PC...
  34. Padddyy

    Question Pc studdering

    Hi, my pc is studdering (freezing) while gaming for about 1-3 seconds every about 30 seconds. I have all the new drivers and have reinstalled them multiple times. PC specs: Ryzen 7 5700x MSI RADEON RX 6600 Mech 2x 8gb ROG strix b550-f gaming WiFi ii Gigabyte p750gm F4-3200C16D-32GTZN Could...
  35. coolhandluke_tv

    Question Computer freezes then beeps once ?

    For whatever reason, whenever I am playing a game like League of Legends or open a different game, my computer will randomly freeze. It's not often, nor does it happen every time, but for some reason, it'll just freeze. If it freezes and I mash keys or click the mouse rapidly, it'll give out a...
  36. R

    Question I'm having several issues with my PC

    Having issues with my PC 😢 I can't seem to pinpoint what the issue is. Sometimes my PC runs perfectly normal then it throws a fit out of nowhere! Please see some points below... Issues Freezing, mouse dragging slow, almost feeling heavy to pull across the screen Black screen flashes. The...
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    Question New 3060 Ti causing 4K TV to freeze ?

    Recently purchased a 3060 Ti to replace a 970 in my system, but when I have tried to use it with my 4K tv the screen freezes and I have to take the hdmi cable out and put it back in to unfreeze. It will then freeze again if I try to open anything, change resolution, essentially anything that...
  38. A

    [SOLVED] Computer Freezes with still image with brand new parts. Help?

    Hello Forum. I recently bought new parts for my PC and i have freezing problems, can you please help? :/ ----PC---- ● GPU : RTX 3080 ZOTAC AMP HOLO 10GB ● CPU : Intel i5-13600k ● RAM : Kingston HyperX Fury RGB 32GB CL16 3200Mhz ● MOBO : ASUS ROG STRIX z790-a wifi gaming d4 ● SSD : SAMSUNG EVO...
  39. Astrałł

    [SOLVED] Could this be a bad sign for a gpu?

    I guess gpu is crashing the whole system on heavy gpu load. Also i don't know how but my gpu is always on 60-90% "3D usage" on desktop without any background apps and on fresh windows 10 or 11 build (both tested). and its still like it would be idle'ing 40-50 °C. I need real help! gpu crash...
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    Question I need help fixing persistent stuttering issues when gaming.

    Hello! I am using an Omen Laptop. Over the past year or so my games having been stuttering (skipping about .5 seconds) constantly while playing. It seems to happen more often during gunfights as I mainly play FPS games. It started happening around when I switched to a new monitor which doesn't...