Question Windows crashing on YT/Spotify/Amazon Videos.

Aug 28, 2024
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CPU: Ryzen 7 7800x3d
CPU cooler: Noctua NH-D15
Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS
Ram: G.Skill F5-6400J3239G32GX2-TZ5RK memory module 2 x 32gb

SSD/HDD: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1TB (OS installed on this)
PLEXTOR PX-256M5Pro
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB

GPU: RTX 4090
PSU: Corsair RM1000e Gold 80+
Tower: Corsair Obsidian Series 750D ATX
OS: Windows 10 home 64-bit
Browser: Google chrome / OperaGX

This is a new build PC that I've built since my previous one kept hard crashing with an instant black screen that wouldn't show me any BSOD, but the GPU/CPU/Mobo lights would remain on for 5 minutes until it powers down on its own. Finally I found BSOD error logs on reliability history pointing towards GPU/Ram failure so I rebuilt the PC, keeping only the tower and the SSDs which I formatted and wiped clean.

My issue is that occasionally whenever I'm watching youtube or amazon prime videos, the video will hitch for a moment, and the window will stop responding and and while my mouse moves fine, I can't interact with anything such as closing the window that's playing the video. I try to rightclick the taskbar to open task manager but it doesn't do anything at all, I do the usual keyboard shortcuts such as ctrl+alt+del, or ctrl+shift+esc, or even win+r and none of them do anything. I feel 85% sure I had this issue a few years ago and I turned off hardware acceleration on the browser I was using which hasn't solved the issue.
I was originally using google chrome but it's crashed 2/3 times, so last night I swapped to operaGX and this afternoon while playing spotify that's integrated into it, it happened again. There's no record of anything happening in the event viewer, or reliability history logs other than the PC not cleanly shutting down properly. (Kernal Power Id-41).

I find this all quite strange since the temperatures and performance seem perfectly fine even when I get sweaty and do a 6 hour gaming session. So far it's only had issues on Spotify/Youtube/Amazon Prime Videos. I also DDU'd and did a clean install of GPU drivers. I'm inhaling copium and hoping it isn't the GPU or CPU since they've been fine under load, and hopefully it isn't the PSU since it isn't shutting off abruptly.