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    Question Some Of My Games Keep Freezing Randomly

    Some of my games freeze randomly while playing, it can last anywhere between 1 - 10 seconds and may not happen again for 3 minutes or 3 hours. I tried turning on and off V-Sync and disabling hardware acceleration where I could but it hasn't helped. I get occasional freezes playing Days Gone...
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    [SOLVED] Friend's PC nearly same build as mine freezes/crashes when gaming ?

    My friend recently built a new PC and for some reason it runs like complete crap. In the game division with everything turned down he gets 100+ FPS yet it constantly freezes and sometimes crashes. Now it seems we have fixed the crashing issue some how (did pull ram and put back in, same with...
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    Question PC freezes after closing out of games ?

    Hopefully this is the correct category to post this under. I have been having a freezing issue with my PC for the past few months. I built my PC myself early this year. When running games like COD, Resident Evil, etc. (graphics heavy games?) my pc will freeze within 2 minutes of me closing out...
  4. ahregri

    [SOLVED] Ping spiking and computer freezing on ethernet

    Starting a few months ago, we got a new modem and my ping began to spike and my computer would freeze randomly. Sometimes every hour, sometimes every couple minutes. I’ve tried everything I’ve read online and nothing has worked. It’s only my computer too! I’m on ethernet and everyone else in the...
  5. HaXD

    Question 1070 Mini acting weirdly

    A little bit background: I purchased this 1070 mini as a second-handed, the warranty ended in 8/2020. I also pruchased a cheap Chinese monitor with no website or link whatsoever. The monitor require me to have both VGA and HDMI cable plugged in but due to the fact 1070 mini only have DP, HDMI...
  6. Dankner

    [SOLVED] PC Freezing

    The past month my PC has frozen 10 times in the past month, every single time has been whilst watching twitch except once while watching youtube. Never when gaming. Right before it hard locks, I hear a buzzing sound through my headphones. There is no Blue Screen or a single error code any time...
  7. CaptainDiabeto

    [SOLVED] PC Shuts Off Randomly When Using It

    My PC For The Most Part Has Done Pretty Well In The Past With No Significant Errors/Crashing, Until 3 Days Ago. Now My PC Wont Go 5 Minutes Without Shutting Down & It Does It Randomly; Sometimes In Windows, Sometimes When I'm In The BIOS & I'm Completely Stumped. Here's A List Of Things I've...
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    Question Computer freezing sporadically idle/gaming

    Hello. I bought this premade tower last year for cheap "HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop 690-0073w" Here is the link for its specs: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06425046 Since then it has froze randomly at any time or under any load(or lack therof). Sometimes it goes weeks without a freeze...
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    [SOLVED] PC crashing/freezing. What sounds like the cause of these issues to you?

    I built my PC about 5 years ago. About a year and a half ago, things started going haywire. No matter what I am doing, whether it's light browsing, or gaming, here are the issues that occur: Every once in a while when I power on my pc, my monitor won't display any video but my pc otherwise...
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    Question PC instability and issues

    Hi guys, I've bought a PC a few years ago. This was primarily for CS:GO use. Spend about 2000 euro on it back then. I'm a pretty competitive player that wants the best possible gear/settings and performance while playing. For many years this wasn't a problem. I played CS:GO at 300fps+ and never...
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    Question Computer Crashes Every Single Time After Start Up

    Thank you in advance for any advice... I have been trying to diagnose this issue for close to 2 years. This is a tough one... The ONLY issue I have with my computer is it will hard crash not long after I start it up. Once it crashes, it won't crash again as long as I keep the computer running...
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    [SOLVED] Screen randomly freezes when playing games, requires hard reset. Why could this be happening?

    So I've had this issue for a while now where I would start playing a game and out of nowhere the screen freezes (sometimes it takes 2 minutes and sometimes I can play several hours) and I can't do anything except hard reset my pc. The temperature of the GPU goes up to 81C max. I'll provide all...
  13. BlancBG

    Question Windows 10 freezing

    Every few hours (anywhere from 5-24 hours) my computer completely freezes up. It is lsited in control panel as an unexpected shutdown, with the event time as when ti frozen, and another time when I restart the pc. This has happened before on a different drive, and the issue was getting so...
  14. SneakyDonut

    Question Random freezing nothing found in event viewer, but HDD jumps to 100% usage when freezing occurs

    As explained above my computer has been randomly freezing, it lasts about 3-5 seconds and my audio breaks but does not go out. When I go to event viewer nothing is there at the time of the crash/freeze. But since this has been happening I figured I would leave task manager open to see if...
  15. Thundurh

    [SOLVED] PC Freezing Issue

    Hello! I have had a problem with my computer freezing while gaming for about 3 or 4 years now. Sometimes while I am gaming it will happen in about an hour or two, and sometimes it can be just 5 or 10 minutes. I have replaced every single part in my PC (besides my storage components), which has...
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    Question Computer keeps freezing, crashing, and is running slower then usual. Have tried multiple things no fixes yet.

    Hello, my pc recently around a month ago has started having problems where it will just freeze while I'm gaming or even just on chrome. I have recently just got new ram 2 weeks ago in hopes that it would fix the problem and have had no luck. I have also factory reset multiple times already and...
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    [SOLVED] Computer constantly freezing and unfreezing with DAW, Zoom, or any CPU intensive recording application open

    Hi there, I do not know if this is the right category to post this - if it isn't, I apologize. I am running into a problem that is extremely hindering my ability to do any work. I do audio production. I also stream, and I am in school (online for now due to the pandemic). Every time I have my...
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    Question System Freezing after upgrading RAM to 32GB @ 3600MHz from 16gb @ 3000MHz ?

    Hello, I just upgraded my ram to Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3600 , from Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz, and already had: the motherboard GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS PRO and an i7-9700k. Upon upgrading it, I booted into the BIOS, selected 'Profile 1' XMP which...
  19. AndroTaurus

    [SOLVED] PC Randomly Freezes With Red Artifacts

    My PC just randomly freezes with artifacts while I'm gaming or do light tasks for a long time, I don't know of any problems. I certainly know its not the problem of softwares as this happened on windows AND Linux. I have a suspicion it has to do something with temperature because after this...
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    [SOLVED] Help me enjoy playing games on my PC - FPS drops to 0, freezing and going non-responsive

    Hello, Bought my pre-built PC just over a year ago, two monitors Specs: I7-9700k 8gb ddr4 GTX 1660 I play Two games mostly, Rocket League and Path of exile. I run rocket league of HD and Path of exile of External Samsung SSD Rocket league - when alt-tabing to view second monitor and switch...
  21. alexgjasmin

    [SOLVED] Computer BSODs with an WHEA Error every day, need help narrowing down the problem

    Hello! So I recently just upgraded my computer with a new Asus Rog Strix RTX 3070 OC Graphics Card (Originally an EVGA ACX 3.0 1080), and my computer has been behaving very... well, inconvenient and strange. I can't really go one day without running into this one Blue Screen error, and I can't...
  22. Hyouden180

    [SOLVED] Simple games like League of Legends are freezing for 3-5 seconds intermittently

    Hello! I'm in some serious need of help as I don't understand what may be going on with my current setup. I'm usually pretty good at figuring these things out but regardless of what I mess around with in bios/other things, I haven't been able to figure it out. I think my setup is more than...
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    Question DPC Watchdog Violation Occasionally while gaming. Thanks!

    Minidump This has happened quite a bit while gaming the last few days, I cannot remember the events leading up to it. I recently installed RTX voice, one time it froze and came back and RTX voice was closed. Thanks for your time!
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    Question Windows 10 Freezing when restarting & shutting down, plus there's no sound ?

    Hey guys, So today when I turned on my PC I noticed I wasn't hearing any sound and my mic wouldn't work either. I then later realised that whenever I try to restart or shutdown my PC it will show a black screen but the computer will still be running. I can only stop this by holding down the...
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    [SOLVED] My computer is restarting under load (multiple symptoms)

    Hello! I know this is a post that has been posted plenty of times before, however I have a different case and it seems that every post I visit is giving a different diagnoses for different symptoms. Well I have several and have already tried applying plenty of solutions to no avail. Hopefully I...
  26. Babzee1

    [SOLVED] Laptop is unresponsive and restarting doesn’t work

    When booting my laptop it works fine for the first 10 minutes then google chrome stops responding and then when checking task manager it shows cpu utilising at 60% but when sorting to see what is being used everything shows 0% I tried opening cmd but then I cant type into it and when trying to...
  27. Ledyba

    Question PC Freezes While Gaming, Forcing Hard Shut-Down

    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 with Fallout 76, PSO2 and Tekken 7. I've not encountered this issue with any other game I have played. I've tried reinstalling my GPU drivers, running the memory...
  28. ChoiceJake

    [SOLVED] My pc keeps on frezing and making a weird noise buzzy sound and forcing me to hard reboot

    this is what happens to my pc View: https://youtu.be/viqJ3LQ5pNM My specs is, Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz Video Card Radeon RX 5500 XT RAM G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB 32 GB Power Supply Gold 850 watt psu Motherboard ASUS-Z170-A SSD Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe...
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    [SOLVED] Random FPS Issues and Stuttering with High End PC

    I have looked around the forums for a while, and looked at other sources to try and fix my issue. Starting a few days ago I have been getting major FPS drops in games like Overwatch and Minecraft, and running shaders I am getting under 40 fps. In Hitman 2 I was experiencing major hanging issues...
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    [SOLVED] Seasonic X-650 and AMD 5700 XT - System Reboots, Freezes, Black Screens

    I've got a Seasonic X-650 from 2015 paired with what seems to be a high transient GPU; Sapphire 5700 XT Nitro+, as well as my backup, an Asus GTX 970 Strix, also high transient. Apparently these GPUs cause black screens, reboots and freezes with certain Seasonic PSUs, which is what I'm dealing...
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    Question Crashing and Artifacting?

    So, I have been trying to sort out this issue for the past 4-5 hours with no success. These issues happened "all of a sudden". One moment I am playing, and the next, my computer froze. I launched games such as Escape from Tarkov and Battlefront 2 , getting crashes and other artifact errors...
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    Question micro freezing in games

    Hi. So my pc keeps randomly micro freezing in games, i've tried pretty much everything i know and it didn't fix the issue what i tried : Reinstalling OS and manually installing chipset drivers \ direct x \ visuals c Reinstalling OS and letting windows download anything it needs Overclocking and...
  33. imjayngl

    [SOLVED] PC freezing at game startup after installing new CPU

    I recently switched from an i3-8100 to an i7-9700k and I installed everything correctly with thermal paste application and I reinput the CPU cooler perfectly. I booted up my PC which first time boot showed a blue screen saying there was a problem with startup. I clicked continue to Windows and...
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    Question Stuttering after adding new RAM (8GB to 16GB)

    Hello everyone, I've noticed that my pc has begun stuttering every now and then (maybe once every hour sometimes twice) when I do things like watch youtube videos or play video games after I upgraded my RAM from (4x2) 8GB to (8x2) 16GB. Motherboard - ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA 1150...
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    [SOLVED] Cyberpunk 2077 menus freeze after 3 seconds of being in them.

    The screen keep freezing roughly 2-3 seconds after I open any of the in-game menus. The screen will only resume working if I Alt-Tab out and back into the game, where it will then freeze again after the same 2-3 seconds. The only fix I have found myself is switching the game to run in windowed...
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    [SOLVED] Is my monitor causing my PC to crash and restart?

    This is going to sound silly but since i've bought a new monitor, (Samsung G7, got it on sale with half being paid by my younger brother as he accidentally broke my monitor at the time, also wouldn't pay full price for it but anyways) i've been having constant crashes where my PC will either...
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    Question Monitor turning on and off, PC stuttering, trouble came suddenly!

    (Sorry, this is a longer story, but all in the name of being thorough) Dear wisewomen and men, I have a headscratcher which, so far, I haven't been able to crack. TL;DR - My screen is flickering, with random graphical artifacts (lines, colours, dots, icons) on screen, sudden restarts, crashing...
  38. 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...
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    [SOLVED] Windows freezing after tabbing out or playing a game.

    I am unsure if this is the correct forum for this but I have no idea if this is hardware or software. I recently upgraded my computer (mostly visual changes). A new cooler, case, ram, and an m.2. I have had no issues with the system during general use (Web browsing, discord, college work, etc)...
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    Question Pc freezing

    Hi guys. I recently started having issues with my computer freezing. It happens randomly, sometimes during booting. Only way to unfreeze it is to force restart it. I have been to 2 technicians and they couldn't fix it. My specs are : Amd Radeon R7 360 Amd athlon X4 840 Hdd is some Toshiba...