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Hello, Starting with a timeline of what I've been dealing with and what I've done so far (system specs are at the bottom of the post): Prior to this week, everything had been generally working fine since I built this box almost 2 years ago. For the past month, I have been doing a lot of...

Hello everyone, I am a few weeks into my new system, and outside of a few bugs, I have been fairly happy. At first, the system would make an extremely loud buzzing sound when detecting the first audio on boot. This was fixed by DDU. Now, I only get an occasional buzz every now and then that...

Hi everyone, Computer has been acting weird lately. I will run WoW or any game and then Youtube or anything video related is very slow, Facebook typing is slow and takes up 5 seconds to catch up every time you type something and now I've been noticing that programs won't open right away when I...

Hello, Whenever I leave my laptop idle for like 10-15 minutes and come back , I find that the whole desktop is unresponsive and I get some random news pop-ups on screen (just a small, grey rectangular with white font). This issue only lasts like 2-4 seconds, then it goes back to normal. The...

My PC has been giving me this problem for a while now and it's completely random. The PC stops displaying any image and I hear the sound of a USB device being unplugged. The screen goes completely black and the PC's fans start spinning at max speed. My keyboard still works though, as I can still...

Hi! I have updated linux with sudo apt update and then upgrade, then i restarted it. Now it doesn't boot. I can't ssh into it, and the website says it's unresponsive. Is there any way i can get the stuff that's on the ssd? If i have to reinstall it's not a problem, i just want the data on it...

Hi all, I have a user at my workplace who has reported websites loading extremely slowly. I've been to check myself and it's definitely as slow as he says When he tries to load a website, it'll hang there for about 5 seconds before saying the page has become unresponsive, with a choice to wait...

My system: Asus X570 Dark Hero Ryzen 5950 CPU 2 x 32GB DDR4 3600mhz Corsair Vengeance Ram Palit RTX 3090 GamingPro Dark Power 12 1000w PSU Phanteks P600s Case Windows 10 LG CX 48” Oled Display (HDMI 2.1) I tried turning on my PC today and there was no response when I pressed the power button...

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...

This is a copy paste of a reddit post I also made Specs Windows 11 (this was happening on windows 10 as well) Nvidia rtx 2080 Ryzen 5800x (not over clocked) Boot drive - Samsung 970 evo So a few months ago I was having my audio cut out in games, some sounds would be quiet some sounds would be...

I have been dealing with the issue for a very long time. I have been playing PC games for years and the way my game feels has a major effect on how I perform. My game does not feel snappy, and responsive like it should. I spent thousands on a rig and have been optimizing everything I could to my...

Any time I close an app (Final Fantasy 14) after extended use, my computer stops being responsive to new apps. Anything that is open at the same time as the app, Chrome / Discord / iTunes whatever continues to work completely fine with no indication of lag or any problem at all - however I am...

Hi, I have an MSI GS66 Stealth 10SE, had just upgraded from 2x8gb 3200mhz Crucial ram to 2x16gb 3200mhz PNY XLR8 gaming ram last Monday (May 30th, Tonga time). It worked fine. Then come Saturday (June 4th), the laptop would freeze when left idle. The cursor won't move, won't respond to...

I could really use some help with this. It's been driving me crazy, not to mention interfering with my activities, for quite some time. I'm not even sure where to post this, as I'm not sure just where the root cause is. There are two systems here. Both are similarly set up and have Gentoo Linux...

I recently started having an issue when playing warzone where my mouse would stop tracking for a second or two at a time and then go back to normal. I don't get a windows device disconnect sound when it happens, my mouse's RGB doesn't cut out, and it is very random when it happens. It seems to...

Hello! I need your kind help. I'm having some issues with my XBox One wireless controller. Specifically, the sticks display some very weird lag and unresponsiveness. I detected it first while trying to play Horizon Zero Dawn via Steam. Reinstalled, verified integrity of game files. Reset the...

so i decided to build my own pc about a year ago but never had a problem with it but today i was unplugging a wire while the pc was off and when i turn it back on the pc doesn’t do anything only lights up. the wire i inpligged was for the fans so didn’t think it was much of an issue but it must...

Dear PC Enthusiasts I'm already several months encountering an issue with my PC (and been troubleshooting quite some time on it), but from today I gave up searching around Google and would like some input from the community here. ==================== Problem Description ====================...

This issue has been frustrating me for almost a year now. I am very frustrated and I need help. For TLDR skip to bullet points. It all started in my last rig (Windows 10, i5-4460, 16Gb DDR3). The PC, while working perfectly, would randomly (usually when watching a movie) start stuttering, then...

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...

A couple of months ago, I purchased a Seagate "Basic" 2TB USB external hard drive (STJL2000400). Looks exactly like this: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Seagate-Basic-STJL2000400-Hard-drive-2-TB-external-portable-USB-3-0-gray/694094792 During light usage, it functions fine. However, I've been...

Starting with the RGB on my cooler pump/rad fans freezing and the USB disconnect sound repeatedly going off and reconnecting about a week into building the PC when playing Horizon Zero Dawn. I thought this was just new PC teetering issues, as it only happened when using an xbox controller with...

I could be watching something on YouTube, the video freezes but I still hear sound, I can pause it and click other things but I can't see it happening visually, same thing with every other application, everything is unresponsive including the windows "sleep, shutdown and restart" options.

I built my PC 5 years back and it has a permanent problem of freezing with audio loop. I am explaining in the issue in bullet points for better readability. When freezes: Mouse and keyboard don't work. Last played sound keeps looping. Doesn't come back to normal until a Hard shutdown. Reset...

Hello. My usb external hard drive that runs a laptop hard drive used to work after i bought a new pc, but now it doesn't even show how much space is left when it loads its so slow and my files wont even load honestly i didn't use it for sending files my hard drive is 160 gigabytes and my laptop...

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...

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...

so I built a new pc and it worked fine... for the first month, now it has random reboots occasional shut downs and this weird thing where windows partially shuts down. an example being a program will freeze and I will ctrl alt delete to pull up the task manage and it will pop out but its...

Hello, I have a USB Corsair k70 RGB rapid fire keyboard that I've had for awhile. Recently the keyboard has started not fully turning on with the rest of my PC when I boot it up. My mouse and monitor both work, and the keyboard is receiving power because the number lock light lights up when the...

This is a really tough issue I've been trying to figure out for a week or so but can't make any headway. Basically, after a couple of hours straight of working in Blender, my computer will become completely unresponsive. My monitors (some connected to motherboard using integrated graphics, some...

If any moderators are here, this is my first post on Tom's Hardware Forums and I don't really know much about how it works. If I am posting this in the wrong section, please notify me and I will make this thread in another section. A few weeks ago, I just built a new PC. Specs here...

Hello everyone, I got a brand new pc about ~1 week ago and it continues to randomly freeze regardless of all the fixes I try. Specs: Summarized: Intel i7-9700K / RTX 2080 SUPER 8GB / 480GB SSD / 1TB HDD / Hyperx 16GB Ram / Z390 Motherboard / 750W Bronze PSU Specific: – Aerocool Quartz Revo...

Ok, so basically, wanted to boot up my PC a few days ago, and at first, it sounded like everything was fine. The fans started, the power LED lit up, everything sounded right. Not sure about my SSD, but I definetly heard my second hard drive (HDD) running. Everything did not look right. My...

My computer has recently started to crash randomly under light load to a black screen and become unresponsive. The power button will not work on it and all external devices quit working as well. If I flip the power switch lights come on but fans do not spin. The computer was working today for...

I am using a refurbished 2018 Dell XPS 13 running the latest Windows 10 and I keep running to this issue: When I close the laptop lid, the laptop goes into hibernation but (occasionally) won't turn back on. The power button is unresponsive, the battery status button is unresponsive, and...

I have a OriginPC EON17-X Laptop that is just over 3 years old. Over the last few months I've had a worsening problem with a few keyboard keys taking multiple presses or holding down before they will register. At first it was only the D key, but over the last few months it has grown to include...

Hello, I have a occurring problem as of recent. My PC becomes unresponsive and freezes completely (restart required to use) during gaming or sometimes even when launching a game. This is most of the time happening while trying to / playing Far Cry 5 at random point of times. My system meets...

as the title states ive got a problem with oracle vm, ive scoured the entire internet to no avail, my problem seems to be different from other peoples, instead of the guest OS freezing (being unresponsive) the ACTUAL program i.e the main thing you see when you double click the oracle vm icon...

I've just upgraded my PC and now I'm occasionally getting an issue where the computer just completely becomes unresponsive. The video turns off (monitor says no signal), mouse lights turn off, keyboard caps lock doesn't respond, etc. This happens randomly, but more often than not when I'm using...

Hello, I am running a Windows 7 32 bit laptop with 2 GB RAM and 450 GB total ROM. It is getting 100% Disk Usage after a few minutes and the softwares are becoming unresponsive. I tried- Changing Power options. Changing Animation effects. I got a solution too. It was disabling some services in...