This sometimes happen to my PC mostly while gaming but rarely on normal use, when it happens everything is frozen and when I try to press capslock on my keyboard, the capslock indicator doesn't illuminate. So I just hold the PC's power button and restart it and somehow it doesn't happen, its very random and I never really figured out the cause.
Then recently I decided to clean up my PC and I had to unplug the mobo's power cable so I can unplug and remove my GPU and clean the insides and the GPU. After that I just plugged everything back and when I turned it on, it did not boot. Luckily my mobo has an EZ DEBUG LED feature and the CPU, and DRAM led indicators are illuminating alternately. I encountered this many times and somehow it has something to do with my cooler somehow being screwed too tight or too loose, when I managed to screw the cooler properly it booted like charm.
I thought the issue is all over but when I play videogames (in this case Borderlands 2), at random times my PC will freeze again. I would hold the power button, boot it again and try to game but it freezes again. This time I didn't game and just use it for internet use and it didn't freeze. After a few days of not gaming, I tried to play Borderlands 2 again for the third time and I managed to play for about an hour before it froze again. At this point I thought gaming is not an option right now and I will just use it for internet, but later on, my PC froze again while browsing facebook. I held the power button as usual and restarted it, after a few minutes of internet browsing it froze again. I did the usual restarting but somehow this time its not freezing anymore but chances are it could happen again and I'd rather not use my PC with a looming risk of freezing. I have feeling that its my cooler that I may have precariously installed that is causing this but maybe its something else. Thanks in advance.
PC specs:
MOBO: MSI Z170A PC MATE
CPU: i5 6600k
GPU: Asus Strix GTX 1070
RAM: 8gb Hyperx Fury DDR4
COOLER: ID Cooling ICEKIMO 120w
SSD: 120gb L7 EVO
PSU: 500W Aerocool StrikeX 80plus Bronze
Then recently I decided to clean up my PC and I had to unplug the mobo's power cable so I can unplug and remove my GPU and clean the insides and the GPU. After that I just plugged everything back and when I turned it on, it did not boot. Luckily my mobo has an EZ DEBUG LED feature and the CPU, and DRAM led indicators are illuminating alternately. I encountered this many times and somehow it has something to do with my cooler somehow being screwed too tight or too loose, when I managed to screw the cooler properly it booted like charm.
I thought the issue is all over but when I play videogames (in this case Borderlands 2), at random times my PC will freeze again. I would hold the power button, boot it again and try to game but it freezes again. This time I didn't game and just use it for internet use and it didn't freeze. After a few days of not gaming, I tried to play Borderlands 2 again for the third time and I managed to play for about an hour before it froze again. At this point I thought gaming is not an option right now and I will just use it for internet, but later on, my PC froze again while browsing facebook. I held the power button as usual and restarted it, after a few minutes of internet browsing it froze again. I did the usual restarting but somehow this time its not freezing anymore but chances are it could happen again and I'd rather not use my PC with a looming risk of freezing. I have feeling that its my cooler that I may have precariously installed that is causing this but maybe its something else. Thanks in advance.
PC specs:
MOBO: MSI Z170A PC MATE
CPU: i5 6600k
GPU: Asus Strix GTX 1070
RAM: 8gb Hyperx Fury DDR4
COOLER: ID Cooling ICEKIMO 120w
SSD: 120gb L7 EVO
PSU: 500W Aerocool StrikeX 80plus Bronze
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