Swift142

Do you think it's an issue with the cable? Until a week or two ago, I've had no issues with it whatsoever. I've had this cable for like 3-4ish years without touching much past moving apartments once a year. Everytime I uninstall my device driver, it works again for several minutes until eventually stopping. Which makes me think it's not an issue with the cable but LAN drivers

I've been having a crazy amount of issues recently getting my Ethernet connection to stay active and connected and it's been ruining my ability to use my plex server. I've tried to uninstall and reinstall drivers for my adapter, grab the official drivers for my motherboard, and bridge connections with my wifi adapter all in vain. It seems like the issue is driver related but I have no idea what to do to fix this. I really need to be able to use ethernet on my PC, and I reaaaally don't want to rip up my cable out of the walls... Any thoughts on how to diagnose and fix this? Motherboard is ASRock AB350 Pro4

Ahhhhh that might be it. I just turned my overclock off (was from 3.4Ghz up to 4Ghz I think?), and I'm gonna see if it keeps happening now. Is that a common tell of a bad overclock? Where it hangs but doesn't shut down the computer?

Hi, so I built my pc back in 2015 and have been upgrading components here and there ever since. As of right now, my build is ASRock AB350 Pro4 GTX 1070TI R7 1700x 1x16GB Ballistic Ram stick H60 CPU cooler 3x fans (2 in front, 1 back by the radiator) Every-time I play a game while my plex server is simultaneously streaming to 1 or 2 people in the background (or I'm just watching youtube on the same device), suddenly I get a hang, lose all sound, my display freezes, and I can't interact with it whatsoever (ctr+alt+delete, alt+f4, nada) until I cycle the power by holding the button on my case. I thought this had to do with my computer overheating, so I made it crash again with a temp meter open and found that I'm not even breaking 76°, which I would think should be fine. That said, in the past when I kept my computer inside my desk, I found the crashes to occur far more often and sometimes without even spinning up a game, so maybe it IS due to temperatures issue. But it's infuriating and I don't know how to fix this from happening. I recently bought new fans but that did nothing really. I'm thinking about buying a different heat sink, but I really feel like something else is the issue because those temps seem well within a reasonable level... Could there be a bios thing causing my computer to shut off at a lower temp? Anyone have thoughts on why this might be happening?