Hey everyone!
I built my PC about a year and a half ago, and it’s been running great—until the past couple of weeks. Lately, I’ve been running into a strange issue, though it doesn’t happen very often.
Every now and then, my main monitor (1 of 3) freezes. It seems to sometimes happen when I alt-tab, but I haven’t been able to consistently reproduce it. When the main screen freezes, the other two still play sound. If I then click or alt-tab into another monitor, that one freezes too. About five seconds later, all three screens go black and audio stops completely. Then, roughly two seconds later, everything comes back and works normally again.
This only happens maybe once or twice during a typical play session—usually 4–8 hours on Saturday and around 6 hours total during the week. There’s no clear pattern in terms of which game I’m playing, how many tabs are open, or what apps are running. I’ve checked HWMonitor right after it happens, but everything looks normal—though it’s possible the readings refresh too quickly to catch anything odd.
My first thought was that it might be GPU driver-related, since the issue is recent. I did a full uninstall and clean reinstall of the latest graphics drivers, but the issue just happened again today.
I don't think its a hardware issue since all the components are new and I built it over 1yr 1/2 ago with no issues till 2 weeks ago. That being said, here is the build:
GPU:7800xt 16gb XFX Speedster
CPU:Ryzen 7 9700x 3.8GHz 8-core
RAM:G.Skill Flare x5 DDR5 6000
MOBO:Gigabyte B650M X AX
PSU: Corsair RM850e 850W+Gold
AIO:ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360
Storage:Samsung 990 Pro 1TB M.2 (300GB free)
Storage: WDB SN580 2TB M.2 ( 838GB free)
Storage: Samsung 870 EVO SATA 500gx2 (both completely empty)
Windows 11 Pro
Appreciate any help—thanks, legends!
I built my PC about a year and a half ago, and it’s been running great—until the past couple of weeks. Lately, I’ve been running into a strange issue, though it doesn’t happen very often.
Every now and then, my main monitor (1 of 3) freezes. It seems to sometimes happen when I alt-tab, but I haven’t been able to consistently reproduce it. When the main screen freezes, the other two still play sound. If I then click or alt-tab into another monitor, that one freezes too. About five seconds later, all three screens go black and audio stops completely. Then, roughly two seconds later, everything comes back and works normally again.
This only happens maybe once or twice during a typical play session—usually 4–8 hours on Saturday and around 6 hours total during the week. There’s no clear pattern in terms of which game I’m playing, how many tabs are open, or what apps are running. I’ve checked HWMonitor right after it happens, but everything looks normal—though it’s possible the readings refresh too quickly to catch anything odd.
My first thought was that it might be GPU driver-related, since the issue is recent. I did a full uninstall and clean reinstall of the latest graphics drivers, but the issue just happened again today.
I don't think its a hardware issue since all the components are new and I built it over 1yr 1/2 ago with no issues till 2 weeks ago. That being said, here is the build:
GPU:7800xt 16gb XFX Speedster
CPU:Ryzen 7 9700x 3.8GHz 8-core
RAM:G.Skill Flare x5 DDR5 6000
MOBO:Gigabyte B650M X AX
PSU: Corsair RM850e 850W+Gold
AIO:ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360
Storage:Samsung 990 Pro 1TB M.2 (300GB free)
Storage: WDB SN580 2TB M.2 ( 838GB free)
Storage: Samsung 870 EVO SATA 500gx2 (both completely empty)
Windows 11 Pro
Appreciate any help—thanks, legends!
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