[HELP] PC Freezes While Playing Games Or Doing Anything. Have to Force Restart

[ZyraBreh]

I recently bought and built a new pc, and ever since ive built ive had nothing but problems.

First, i was getting Automatic Repair Loop and BSOD whenever id play. I then figured out something was faulty with the ssd i had as my boot drive and i removed it and all Automatic Repair Loop and BSOD is gone. I replaced it with an older WD Hard Drive and everything worked for about 3 days and then i ran into the issue im having right now. I could be playing CSGO or even on YouTube or Twitch and it will freeze up forcing me to restart my pc from the power button. While it freezes, I check to see if its deadlocked or not by tapping the cap locks key but sometimes its not deadlocked. Its a 50-50 chance of it being deadlocked. Ive ran memtest and had no ram issues and im checked both my hard drives and both had no problems. Ive also reinstalled windows many times.

I was gonna try to update my bios but im kinda worried that my system my hang itself and freeze up while updating bios. But i honestly think it might be faulty RAM. I have 1 8gb 2400mhz ddr4 stick. Ive tried playing with different ram slots and keep running into the same problem. If its not my ram, im thinking it could be my PSU or one of my hard drives. Yet idk what to do. Thats where i need help, because i cant even go 1 day without having to force restart my pc like 3-4 times a day. Also, ALT+Tab, CTRL+ALT+Delete, etc. dont work. Therefore, forcing me to restart from the power button. Any comment is helpful, just tryna figure out what to do.

PC SPECS:
GPU: GTX 1060 6 GB SC
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600
CPU Cooler: Stock Wraith Cooler (Have Cooler Master Hyper 212 but not installed.)
RAM: Ballistix Sport LT 8GB Single DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) DIMM 288-Pin
Hard Drive: WD Blue 1TB SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM
MotherBoard: MSI B350m Gaming Pro
PSU: EVGA 430 Watt

 

[Kkody2]

Not much I can say as a solution, but I had a similar experience to this.
As soon as I upgraded my PSU and added a second monitor, I PC would freeze up at least once every day or 2.
I was stumped as to what was causing this because a second monitor shouldn't cause that much more power draw plus my PSU was plenty for my system.
I kinda blamed my GPU at the time (r7 250x) and redownloaded my gpu drivers, then eventually every driver I had installed.

It still froze sometime, but not as much. After about a month I realized it hasn't froze in a long time.

Today I still have my same RAM,MOBO, CPU, and PSU and I havn't had a single freeze unless it was my fault (trying to multitask while my CPU usage is 100%)

Hope you find a solution as this is extremely frustrating

 

[ZyraBreh]

Its weird though my CPU and GPU temps are fine and the usage of my CPU & RAM are hitting around 50%. Just frustrating like you said, because ive had nothing but problems and i cant figure out which part is bad. But its weird because sometimes my Windows will be glitchy and blackscreen for a sec or even the taskbar wont work. Idk if thats just windows lagging or if its really something hardware wise. Ive reinstalled all drives over 2-3 times. But thanks for the comment!

 

[Kkody2]

Its weird though my CPU and GPU temps are fine and the usage of my CPU & RAM are hitting around 50%. Just frustrating like you said, because ive had nothing but problems and i cant figure out which part is bad. But its weird because sometimes my Windows will be glitchy and blackscreen for a sec or even the taskbar wont work. Idk if thats just windows lagging or if its really something hardware wise. Ive reinstalled all drives over 2-3 times. But thanks for the comment!

Have you ever scanned your PC for malware or viruses?

And it "could" be a possibility that 430 watts is not enough for your computer.

Did the freezes start happening shortly after upgrading or changing out a part?

 

[ZyraBreh]

Yes, since ive changed out my ssd to an older hard drive. Thats when the freezing started to occur. When i was making the build on PCPartPicker and said i only needed 290w, but im not sure. & I havent scanned for malware either, i havent downloaded anything that couldve been malware. Ive downloaded Steam, Chrome, Geforce Experience, Orgin, etc. but ill check anyway.

 

[Kkody2]

Yes, since ive changed out my ssd to an older hard drive. Thats when the freezing started to occur. When i was making the build on PCPartPicker and said i only needed 290w, but im not sure. & I havent scanned for malware either, i havent downloaded anything that couldve been malware. Ive downloaded Steam, Chrome, Geforce Experience, Orgin, etc. but ill check anyway.

No explainable reason (as far as I know) as why swapping out the SSD for a hard drive would have anything to do with it freezing.
Did you do a clean install of windows on your hard drive?

Because this would be one of the biggest way to try and fix this, except for the fact you will have to download everything again which sucks.

Let me know if you find out anything

 

[ZyraBreh]

Yes, since ive changed out my ssd to an older hard drive. Thats when the freezing started to occur. When i was making the build on PCPartPicker and said i only needed 290w, but im not sure. & I havent scanned for malware either, i havent downloaded anything that couldve been malware. Ive downloaded Steam, Chrome, Geforce Experience, Orgin, etc. but ill check anyway.

No explainable reason (as far as I know) as why swapping out the SSD for a hard drive would have anything to do with it freezing.
Did you do a clean install of windows on your hard drive?

Because this would be one of the biggest way to try and fix this, except for the fact you will have to download everything again which sucks.

Let me know if you find out anything

Ive reinstalled windows many times. It hasnt done anything at all.

 

[Kkody2]

Yes, since ive changed out my ssd to an older hard drive. Thats when the freezing started to occur. When i was making the build on PCPartPicker and said i only needed 290w, but im not sure. & I havent scanned for malware either, i havent downloaded anything that couldve been malware. Ive downloaded Steam, Chrome, Geforce Experience, Orgin, etc. but ill check anyway.

No explainable reason (as far as I know) as why swapping out the SSD for a hard drive would have anything to do with it freezing.
Did you do a clean install of windows on your hard drive?

Because this would be one of the biggest way to try and fix this, except for the fact you will have to download everything again which sucks.

Let me know if you find out anything

Ive reinstalled windows many times. It hasnt done anything at all.

Well, I'm out of ideas
Maybe gotta wait for someone who is better at troubleshooting than I am.

 

[ZyraBreh]

Its okay, thanks for the reply and trying! Its just annoying because ive searched on it a lot and still no fix.

 

[ZyraBreh]

Ive ran memtests and still havent gotten errors, going to try and unplug one of my hard drives and boot up from only 1.