I have recently been having an issue with my PC in which it completely freezes, even what's displayed on the monitor, and a loud buzzing sound comes through the speakers. I primarily use my computer for video/picture editing or flight simulation, and it only ever freezes when I am using it while the simulator application (Prepar3d v4.4) is running. The issue I have with finding out why it all of a sudden began freezing is that I upgraded multiple things at once in between uses. Among these, I installed a new 4TB HDD, upgraded windows to the latest update, upgraded my graphics card driver, connected a new Bluetooth headset, and installed some pretty shoddy software to direct audio to a different source (to quickly change audio outputs with the new headset). Since the crashes began, I have upgraded my graphics card driver and windows again (both had a new update), I uninstalled all of that shoddy audio software, fiddled with power management settings, uninstalled/removed any unused audio devices from the device manager (someone did that with a similar issue), and finally removed the new HDD to still end with a complete freeze. Every time that I used the simulation software, this would occur.
Then, finally last week, I opened up the PC to remove dust, and clean ports, to find a small speck of packaging plastic that had slightly melted onto a small metal piece of the GPU, which I then removed. I then went another week without a crash, using my computer roughly 3-5 times, something that wouldn't of ever been possible before.
But, this ended today when the PC crashed again, and that led me to write this now... Any help would be appreciated, thank you!
PS: I did have this issue when I first got my PC from CyberPowerPC about 3 years ago, and read somewhere about dialing down the CPU's maximum power in the power management settings to ~85%, which I did, and didn't have this issue again until 3 years later.
I have an Intel i7-6700K, a GTX1070, 1 SSD and 2 HDDs, all powered by a EVGA 650W PSU. Running Windows 10.
Finally, as a side note in case component temperature is at fault, installing the third HDD has restricted quite a bit of space for air to pass through the shelves of hard drives and to the PSU.
UPDATE: Just after posting this, I read somewhere to update my BIOS driver, which I did. I'll update if that worked.
Then, finally last week, I opened up the PC to remove dust, and clean ports, to find a small speck of packaging plastic that had slightly melted onto a small metal piece of the GPU, which I then removed. I then went another week without a crash, using my computer roughly 3-5 times, something that wouldn't of ever been possible before.
But, this ended today when the PC crashed again, and that led me to write this now... Any help would be appreciated, thank you!
PS: I did have this issue when I first got my PC from CyberPowerPC about 3 years ago, and read somewhere about dialing down the CPU's maximum power in the power management settings to ~85%, which I did, and didn't have this issue again until 3 years later.
I have an Intel i7-6700K, a GTX1070, 1 SSD and 2 HDDs, all powered by a EVGA 650W PSU. Running Windows 10.
Finally, as a side note in case component temperature is at fault, installing the third HDD has restricted quite a bit of space for air to pass through the shelves of hard drives and to the PSU.
UPDATE: Just after posting this, I read somewhere to update my BIOS driver, which I did. I'll update if that worked.
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