Problem in a nutshell: My mouse still moves fine but when I click things, they either don't click, or take like 15 seconds to respond. No apps can be opened / closed and when I try shutting down the PC with Windows button > Power > Shut Down which immediately sends me to the lock screen which then allows me to sign in, however, everything remains frozen.
The only "solution" to this is holding down the power button on my PC so that it forces shut down, and then when I turn it back on, everything is normal again... until the next time it happens.
There's something I noticed when this problem happens. So, I have a "rain" animation playing on my Corsair RAM (specs below), and I've noticed that the animation stops whenever the PC freezes like this. I was lucky enough to have the iCUE software open one time when this happened, and I noticed a red error symbol next to my RAM. I hovered over it and clicked it, but nothing popped up. Potentially a RAM problem? The RAM has been working fine so far and I even tried to make sure it was pushed in (which it is).
This problem started a few weeks back and happens at least once every day at a random time (not usually doing anything intensive).
One thing to note: I started Bitcoin mining around the time the problem started. I tried two apps, NiceHash and Salad, and I ran both for many hours a day. The freeze problem occurred when I was and wasn't mining. Frustrated by the problem, I uninstalled both mining softwares in case they were doing something, however the problem still occurs. I don't recall installing anything else around the time the problem began.
Another thing to note is that this is a custom built (my first ever PC build, actually), so there could be a problem, however I didn't really cheap out on any specs. Here they are:
-Ryzen 5 3600
-32GB-3200MHz (2x16) Corsair Vengeance rgb Pro
-Asus X570-Plus TUF Gaming
-970 Evo 1TB
-Gigabyte RTX 2060 OC 6GB
-Corsair CXM 650W psu
I really hope someone can help me resolve this problem, it's getting extremely annoying now!
Problem in a nutshell: My mouse still moves fine but when I click things, they either don't click, or take like 15 seconds to respond. No apps can be opened / closed and when I try shutting down the PC with Windows button > Power > Shut Down which immediately sends me to the lock screen which then allows me to sign in, however, everything remains frozen. The only "solution" to this is holding down the power button on my PC so that it forces shut down, and then when I turn it back on, everything is normal again... until the next time it happens. There's something I noticed when this problem happens. So, I have a "rain" animation playing on my Corsair RAM (specs below), and I've noticed that the animation stops whenever the PC freezes like this. I was lucky enough to have the iCUE software open one time when this happened, and I noticed a red error symbol next to my RAM. I hovered over it and clicked it, but nothing popped up. Potentially a RAM problem? The RAM has been working fine so far and I even tried to make sure it was pushed in (which it is). This problem started a few weeks back and happens at least once every day at a random time (not usually doing anything intensive). One thing to note: I started Bitcoin mining around the time the problem started. I tried two apps, NiceHash and Salad, and I ran both for many hours a day. The freeze problem occurred when I was and wasn't mining. Frustrated by the problem, I uninstalled both mining softwares in case they were doing something, however the problem still occurs. I don't recall installing anything else around the time the problem began. Another thing to note is that this is a custom built (my first ever PC build, actually), so there could be a problem, however I didn't really cheap out on any specs. Here they are: -Ryzen 5 3600 -32GB-3200MHz (2x16) Corsair Vengeance rgb Pro -Asus X570-Plus TUF Gaming -970 Evo 1TB -Gigabyte RTX 2060 OC 6GB -Corsair CXM 650W psu I really hope someone can help me resolve this problem, it's getting extremely annoying now!