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Question PC freezes but some apps may still open

Jun 24, 2022
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My PC sometimes frezzes at random. Monitors stays on and I usally can still open taskmanager. Sometimes I can open chrome or opera gx, but content wont load and I cant close them again. If my pc crashes with youtube open I can still hear sound, but video/display is frozen.
In taskmanager the gpu load is set to 100% but no applications is using any %. I have tried swapping out the GPU but sameproblem arrives. I have also checked cpu and gpu tempratures on crash, and they are not extremly high.
I will have to shutdown my pc manually and sometimes I will have to unplugg and replugg the computer to let it start again.

Both my motherboard and cpu is relatively new, and so is the powersupply. I dont know what is causing these issuses, hope someone can point me in the right direction

My pc specs are:
Motherboad: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII DARK HERO
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
RAM: 32GB
Powersupply; Gigabyte p850gm 850W