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[SOLVED] Internet related apps and pages shut down on their own ?

Oct 10, 2020
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Hello, I noticed something happening on my pc for 3 days now. Every night around 2-3 am for 3 days in a row now, suddenly while im playing a game like LoL everything internet related decides to go to sleep. The game throws an error and closes, the Discord voice app restarts and reloads for several minutes resulting in high ms in game and every single page on google chrome throws a "aw snap... error: out of memory" thingy. All this at the same time and for 3 days straight, only at night, not at all during the day. I have never encountered something such as this in my entire life using computers, I reinstalled net framework and tried some other solutions and restarting (classic..) which didnt work and I am truly desperate for help.. does anyone know about this problem or knows how to isolate it? Any help appreciated thanks alot and please tell me if its in the wrong category of forums im new here

note: i open my pc in the morning and close it at about 4-5 in the morning every day with maybe some 2-3 hours in the middle so it could be that I have it opened for many hours in a row? So sudden tho..
 
Solution
Numerous and varying errors, as shown by your screen shots, are a sign (to me anyway) of a faltering/failing PSU.

Note that the problems seem to have started on 31 May per Reliability History per the last screen image. Any hardware or software changes on that date that you know of? Check Update History to determine if were any update problems.

What make and model PSU is installed? Wattage, age, condition? Heavy use for gaming, video work, or mining?

Then again, it could simply be a matter of a loose power connection....

There are some immediate things you can do to help narrow down the possible causes:

Power down, unplug, open the case.

Clean out dust and debris.

Verify by sight and feel that all connectors, cards, RAM...
Update your post t include full system hardware specs and OS information.

Do any other network computers or devices have similar problems?

Look in Reliability History: do you see any error codes, warnings, or informational events whose times correspond to the pc's "sleep"?
 
My hardware specs:

CPU: AMD RYZEN 5 2600
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B450-PLUS
STORAGE:1x NVMe 500Gb, 1x SSD 240Gb, 1x HDD 1000GB
RAM: 2x Corsair DDR4 2666Hz 8GB Sticks

My OS: Windows 10 Education 64-bit

I have no other computers at home nor have I noticed this happening while im on my phone using the Wifi

I am attaching screenshots of events when they occured, if you want to check the details on any specific one I will provide it in seperate screenshot. As you can see the times are the ones I said the pc was acting up

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/3208/jTAyDL.png
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/7021/Ou7ski.png
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/8170/rK7DFh.png
 
Numerous and varying errors, as shown by your screen shots, are a sign (to me anyway) of a faltering/failing PSU.

Note that the problems seem to have started on 31 May per Reliability History per the last screen image. Any hardware or software changes on that date that you know of? Check Update History to determine if were any update problems.

What make and model PSU is installed? Wattage, age, condition? Heavy use for gaming, video work, or mining?

Then again, it could simply be a matter of a loose power connection....

There are some immediate things you can do to help narrow down the possible causes:

Power down, unplug, open the case.

Clean out dust and debris.

Verify by sight and feel that all connectors, cards, RAM, and jumpers are fully and firmly in place.

Look for physical signs of damage: bare conductor showing, pinched or kinked wires, swollen/blackened-brownish components.

Next try running the built in Windows troubleshooters. The troubleshooters may find and fix something.

Consider that power problems may have caused file corruption and the corrupted files proceeded to make things worse.

Run "sfc /scannow" and "dism" to find and fix corrupted files.

References:

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-use-sfc-scannow-to-repair-windows-system-files-2626161

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-dism-command-line-utility-repair-windows-10-image

Take your time and look carefully.
 
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