Hi everyone,
I've seen a lot of threads describing how people's PC crashed after a few minutes playing games.
However, I have a "freeze/crash" problem that I struggle to explain, and it is not related to games at all.
It's been about 2 months now, everytime I turn my PC on, I do my things, browse the Internet, or even stay on the desktop, it freezes after about 15 minutes. At the beginning, I can still move my mouse and go through my opened windows, but I have no more Internet and I can't open any new window. Then after a minute of fiddling with my mouse, it starts freezing completely until I can't even move my cursor anymore.
What I tried so far :
Any help would be appreciated. If it's relevant, I will edit this post to add information about my system, components etc, as soon as I get home from work. My objective is either to identify and solve a software problem, or to identify a hardware problem and replace the misbehaving component.
Thank you very much and good day to everyone,
Pierre
I've seen a lot of threads describing how people's PC crashed after a few minutes playing games.
However, I have a "freeze/crash" problem that I struggle to explain, and it is not related to games at all.
It's been about 2 months now, everytime I turn my PC on, I do my things, browse the Internet, or even stay on the desktop, it freezes after about 15 minutes. At the beginning, I can still move my mouse and go through my opened windows, but I have no more Internet and I can't open any new window. Then after a minute of fiddling with my mouse, it starts freezing completely until I can't even move my cursor anymore.
What I tried so far :
- Restart my computer (really?).
- Perform all Windows updates that may have had a problem at some point.
- Update my graphic card, processor, WiFi drivers.
- Open my computer and vacuum/tissue clean it from any dust.
- Reinitialize my computer (I tried every kind of reinitialization, even the one that erases basically everything on your hard drive and "cleans" it).
- Reinitialize my computer without applying any update with a date posterior to when it started bugging.
- Go through Windows administration tools to check my hardware : performance monitor, memory diagnostic, performance analyze. Everything went well and no problem was detected.
- Install Speccy who seemed to say that all my components were fine, running and not heating hard at all.
Any help would be appreciated. If it's relevant, I will edit this post to add information about my system, components etc, as soon as I get home from work. My objective is either to identify and solve a software problem, or to identify a hardware problem and replace the misbehaving component.
Thank you very much and good day to everyone,
Pierre