[SOLVED] Ryzen 3800x, Asus ROG b450f, PC freezes every 10 mins.

[JoshuaYeldose]

My PC is freezing randomly. While gaming, while doing nothing, while browsing. The frequency of freezing has been increased, now it freezes every 5 mins. I swapped RAM, tried different video card. It is still freezes. The CPU and Motherboard were purchased a few months ago. My PSU is Thermaltake 650 W.

 

[JoshuaYeldose]

strangely after new windows install. The CPU temp has gone down, i am seeing 32 degrees idle. The lowest I have seen before was 43.

 

[Juan_Bijero]

Why it had zero problems before? I stress tested played games for hours and there was no issues. It started yesterday when I was playing fortnite.

Did you make any changes to your computer prior to playing Fortnite yesterday?

 

[JoshuaYeldose]

Did you make any changes to your computer prior to playing Fortnite yesterday?

Nothing, nada..I haven't installed anything in weeks.

 

[Juan_Bijero]

Nothing, nada..I haven't installed anything in weeks.

Any Windows updates?

 

[JoshuaYeldose]

I am gonna get the same CPU

Any Windows updates?

I haven't noticed any. I will try to swap the CPU with a friend tomorrow to see if it holds.

 

[Juan_Bijero]

Try this: Take two sticks of RAM. Place one stick in slot A2 and the other stick in B2. This would be the 2n and 4th RAM slots. Then try booting the computer. You can download memtest and see what comes up.

 

[Juan_Bijero]

Start with two sticks of matched RAM. Place in slot A2 and B2, which are the second and fourth slots. Then check to see if everything works. If it doesn't you can try the second set of RAM but make sure that you do not try to overclock anything in the bios. You just want to make sure that everything is stable. Once stable you can get your system setup the way that you want it. Just remember that Ryzen you cannot mix RAM modules. They need to be matched pairs.

 

[JoshuaYeldose]

Start with two sticks of matched RAM. Place in slot A2 and B2, which are the second and fourth slots. Then check to see if everything works. If it doesn't you can try the second set of RAM but make sure that you do not try to overclock anything in the bios. You just want to make sure that everything is stable. Once stable you can get your system setup the way that you want it. Just remember that Ryzen you cannot mix RAM modules. They need to be matched pairs.

Sorry for the late post. Never mixed RAM modules. Tried with a single stick of each of the 6 sticks i have. It didn't work. What worked yesterday is that I was able to finally update windows after a 100 shutdowns and voila, it is super stable now. Prime 95 doesn't even reach 70 degrees after 15 mins. Played Fortnite, Witcher, COH, 100% stable. My wifi card stopped working though, ASUS PCE AC68. I had to use a different card. Any idea if there is a driver that supports the latest version of windows?

 

[mrblazito]

Did you download chipset drivers directly from the AMD site?

 

[Flayed]

Perhaps it was a faulty wifi card causing all the freezes?

 

[JoshuaYeldose]

Did you download chipset drivers directly from the AMD site?

That was done before and it was still freezing.

 

[JoshuaYeldose]

Perhaps it was a faulty wifi card causing all the freezes?

I don't think so. The wifi card is perfectly ok, only think is that the latest windows version doesn't support it. Windows warned me before the update that, I am gonna lose it with the new update. Until that moment wifi was up and good and my speed was 425 Mbps.

 

[Flayed]

I don't think so. The wifi card is perfectly ok, only think is that the latest windows version doesn't support it. Windows warned me before the update that, I am gonna lose it with the new update. Until that moment wifi was up and good and my speed was 425 Mbps.

That's a shame I have the same card in a box somewhere since I switched to an ethernet cable.

 

[Flayed]

If you are still getting the freezing and it started after a Windows update I would do a clean install of Windows. It's a pain to do but I know a few people who have had similar bad update experiences. Mickysoft dropped the ball I think recently.