PC occasionally freezing

Kurgen

Kurgen

Kurgen

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my gaming PC occasionally completely freezes. and i have to power off. maybe once or twice a week, i can be gaming or pc can be idle. i recently upgraded motherboard and RAM and re installed windows.. so the only thing carried over is GPU ,RAM, SSD, PSU. and it did it on the previous PC

any easy way to diagnose.. i have spare RAM, that i could pop in for a week
 
Was it a Mobo and CPU upgrade? What did you upgrade to?

Is it running completely stock? Or do you have xmp/expo enabled?

Is there anything in event viewer?
 
Kurgen said:
my gaming PC occasionally completely freezes. and i have to power off. maybe once or twice a week, i can be gaming or pc can be idle. i recently upgraded motherboard and RAM and re installed windows.. so the only thing carried over is GPU ,RAM, SSD, PSU. and it did it on the previous PC

any easy way to diagnose.. i have spare RAM, that i could pop in for a week
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Anything in event viewer at the time of the crashes?

Just to double check, you state you replaced the motherboard and ram (Or did you mean mobo and cpu where upgraded) and then later on you say that the ram was carried over. If you got new ram and you still have the fault its not going to be that
 
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ED209 said:
Anything in event viewer at the time of the crashes?

Just to double check, you state you replaced the motherboard and ram (Or did you mean mobo and cpu where upgraded) and then later on you say that the ram was carried over. If you got new ram and you still have the fault its not going to be that
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you are correct, typo. i upgraded the motherboard and CPU, used existing ram
 
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Can you list the hardware you where using and then what you upgraded too?

What are you using for storage? NVME drive or SSD?
 
mine does the same, if it freezes, I can still click on things like a link in a browser, but it won't let me type in a type box, when it does this then is going to crash and restart, I know, this is so random, and ~I think that I have auto restart on, so it automaticallyrestarts the pc if there is ever an error, which it never tells me what it is, even in event viewerthis is with a completely new PC with only my old win10 cloned over
so count your lucky stars that you only freeze, because restarting is so super annoying esp when in the middle of a game of chess!
 
Threepwood said:
mine does the same, if it freezes, I can still click on things like a link in a browser, but it won't let me type in a type box, when it does this then is going to crash and restart, I know, this is so random, and ~I think that I have auto restart on, so it automaticallyrestarts the pc if there is ever an error, which it never tells me what it is, even in event viewerthis is with a completely new PC with only my old win10 cloned overfreez
so count your lucky stars that you only freeze, because restarting is so super annoying esp when in the middle of a game of chess!
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freeze as in , PC locks, need to reboot by holding power button down
 
so PC just crashed again and bluescreened. Then it wouldnt come back on.. sometimes there was a post bios then it locked, and then it woulddnt come on until just the a blank monitor. powered off at mains and back on still nothing, fans came on etc but no post boot.

ive whipped the side and as i have extension cables was easy to plug in another PSU. turned and a booted straight into windows. So i will leave this in for a bit and see if i get any crashes...

Phanteks PSU has a 12years warranty so i should be good on that front, althought i dont know how i prove if it is that. but i know phantesk has good customer services
 
Kurgen said:
so PC just crashed again and bluescreened. Then it wouldnt come back on.. sometimes there was a post bios then it locked, and then it woulddnt come on until just the a blank monitor. powered off at mains and back on still nothing, fans came on etc but no post boot.

ive whipped the side and as i have extension cables was easy to plug in another PSU. turned and a booted straight into windows. So i will leave this in for a bit and see if i get any crashes...

Phanteks PSU has a 12years warranty so i should be good on that front, althought i dont know how i prove if it is that. but i know phantesk has good customer services
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Only way to tell is to leave the swapped out PSU in and if the issue goes away and nothing else has changed apart from the PSU you know its that
 
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