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So I just got a prebuilt PC for Christmas and I am trying to play games on it, but it shows that the GPU is inactive while im playing games on task manager plus NVIDIAs driver activity display. I noticed that games perform the exact same if not worse compared to my last PC, which had very similar specs but no GPU, and the only exception that I've seen is on Roblox. There's also been some issue with games freezing where they wouldn't on my old desktop. I've tried doing certain things like going deep into settings, trying things articles and NVIDIA reccomended, getting video drivers, going through BIOS menu (for some reason its pretty much impossible to get there since the manufacturer of this prebuilt doesn't list the key to get there), etc. I hope that someone can figure out the issue with my PC. Specs and information should be here, on the website I bought it from (https://blairtech.com/periphio-portal-lite-gaming-pc-desktop-computer-tower-intel-core-i5-3-2ghz-16gb-ram-120gb-ssd-500gb-hdd-windows-10-nvidia-gt1030-2gb-wifi/). GPU is only connect to PSU, not plugged in to an outlet. Before you ask, yes I have the latest video drivers for NVIDIA.

I built my Desktop PC 1.5 years ago: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT ASUS TUF Edition 16GB Kit (8GB x2) SSD: Crucial P1 500GB NVME PCIe GPU: ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB GDDR6 HDD: Seagate 2 TB (Second hand purchase) MB: ASUS Prime X570-P PSU: Cool master MWE GOLD 650 Case: White Cool Master Mid-Tower ( don't know the model got it second hand) OS: Windows 10PRO (May 2021 Update) Monitor: Samsung 32" UJ32590UQE A couple of weeks ago my son starting to complain that the computer would crash while playing "rainbow six siege" or "War Thunder", so troubleshooting started. The symptoms are: Screen goes black "ON" led in the case remains on Fans for GPU and CPU are off (not spinning) If I keep the "ON" button pressed it will not shutdown nor reset, same the reset button is unresponsive it happens randomly while playing games ( Rainbow six siege, war thunder and Mechwarrior Mercenaries 5, Age of empires 4) So Troubleshooting started: Spot checked temps CPU and GPU ( not much higher than 60degC the couple times I checked Cleaned dust from motherboard, GPU, CPU FAN and cooler( with compressed air), reseated RAM and GPU. Problem continued, next steps: used DDU to remove GPU drivers ( had Adrenalin 21.11.1 which was the latest) Installed Adrenalin 21.11.1 only driver Problem continued, next steps: Performed Fresh install Windows 10 21H2 Installed all latest drivers ( AMD Ryzen, MB drivers, ASUS armoury crate) Installed Adrenalin 21.8.2 WHQL (Full) Fresh install of all games Problem continued, next steps: Removed XMP profile . Problem continued, next steps: Updated BIOS to version 4021 from 1404 Problem continues and I'm out of ideas of what before starting to swap parts, and would be complicated as I Don't have any other Desktop at home. I have attached some images from the Event viewer. Any suggestions on what to do? Thanks Event log.txt

I got a secondhand asus zephyrus ga502du at the end of last summer. It worked well enough, had some performance issues but nothing too terrible. Every so often it would enter hibernation or restart when I was using it, seemingly at random. I installed a second m.2 drive in it, and this issue became more frequent. Until finally it shut itself down as I was installing a game, and is now completely unresponsive. After a bit of research I've found it may amount to a bios issue, but I can't find the cmos battery to reset it, and haven't found any guides that help. How do I reset my bios? Not sure whether or not I want to sell it and get a new laptop, or keep it, but either way I need to get it running again. AMD ryzen 3750h GTX 1660 ti max-q 16gb ram 2400mhz 2x 512gb nvme ssd's

Hey , So There seems to be a weird issue. Now if there is some vibrations in the desk after some usage of about a hour or so either by pushing it or hitting an edge if the edge the screen shuts down and both keyboard and mouse seems to be unresponsive. There are three states which the system goes into :- 1) Either Sound Still plays But non of the clicks register because keyboard and mouse inputs are not read. [Not able to pause video, Or do some execution while gaming or shut down system with hot keys like alt-f4 or ctrl-alt-delete]. 2) No sound and nothing else like no inputs from mouse and keyboard. 3) Similar to two but now all fans start to spin at max Rpm. While it is in this state the system is running like all RGB seems to be running and all fans are spinning etc. Hard resetting with power button seems to work and system boots normally. If i shake the desk now nothing happens. Have tried to use my DP port and Hdmi port to see if display would at least work but no luck. Do not know where to start to diagnose this. Please help out.

My pi was under stress from downloading to my external ntfs hdd at 10MB/s, but it won't boot up. It has happened a couple of times now, usually if I restore the backup to sdcard it starts working again, until some sort of load bricks it. I thought it was because of heat so I installed a fan which keeps temps under 50c on idle, 60c on load. I don't have mini hdmi cable, but all connections to the pi including smb server, all containers, even ssh doesn't get a response. It's has become kind of frequent, last time it happned was about 2-3 weeks ago, what might be causing it?

So my fiancée has been having issues today. Her computer has suddenly stopped working normally, what I mean by this is even since she booted it up today, it's been hanging/freezing at the simplest of tasks and barely function for more then a short period of time. The description she has given me is that nothing works, ctrl+alt+del doesn't work, can't bring up task manager, and have to hard shut it down and try to restart it that way. She's tried giving the computer time to think and nothing. When it does work, it barely works, super slow and unresponsive and she's tried everything to check to see what the issue is and can't find anything as to why or what is causing all of this. My first theory was that it might be RAM related but I am unsure myself and without being able to go see her as she lives quite a distance away, I am basically stuck being phone support. Can point me in the right direction to try and figure out how we might be able to find the issue so we can try to figure out a fix? Some background of the computer, Windows 10, Intel i7-3770k (yes she's still rocking a 3rd gen chip) mobo is a generic but decent one (I think gigabyte but I can't remember for sure) GTX 970 gpu and 16gb of ram ( I don't know speeds or make/model) she has multiple HDD's and a SSD(OS) I hope I have given an adequate explanation as to what the symptoms are and if there are any further questions, I will do my best to try to answer them. I really appreciate any help because I really don't know where to start with this one. Thanks guys

Hello! (edit: do not write a meaningless comment, like 'you shouldn't have done this/that'.. that ain't gonna help.. thank you!) I hope someone has knowledge about the relationship between HDDs and Windows. I had a external HDD sent to me with the problem "It beeps and cannot be detected at all". (Said HDD: Seagate ST1000LM024 (Samsung)) I found out that the heads in this series have a tendency to become stuck after sudden power loss, so I opened the HDD up, and there it was.. the heads were stuck and I pulled them back to the parking zone. After that, I connected the drive to a PC and all the data seemed available, but just in case I ran a data recovery tool instead of simply copying them. Then the PC crashed while the recovery was still running, and when I restarted it, it simply refused to boot. After some tries, I detached the said disk form the system, and it worked again. After it was up and running, I reattached the HDD and windows gave the familiar sound of something's been attached, but it has not appeared even after several minutes. When I tried to refresh the list of disks the whole system froze up and remained unresponsive until I unplugged the said disk. I tried on another windows system, then with linux, but no luck so far. I assume it has something to do with the sectors being damaged by the stuck heads and the repair process, and after the first try, the drive realized that it is faulty, so refused to work. However it seems unlikely, because the HDD spins up properly and I can feel/hear the heads clicking inside (no, not like it would if the drive was damaged), but still that is the most likely idea I could come up. So I would appreciate if someone with more knowledge in this field could help me out. Thank you in advance!

I have a pair of G933's that have become unresponsive. I have followed the guide provided by Logitech HERE to no avail. Logitech is sending me out another pair for free and apparently they dont require the return of the broken one. So basically Im sitting on a "bricked" headphone. Anyone have any other ideas on how to fix these things? Its a shame because they are in mint condition other than the fact that their software imploded. Thanks, Elliott35

Hello, my 2 year old pc sundely started to freeze while gaming or idle no sound not keyboard/mouse response just an frozen image no hdd/ssd light blink . I have to restart from case button and some times cut off the power and when i boot up sometimes the cpu led stays red but the fans run after shuting it down couple of times the cpu led stops lighting up but the boot device lights up and i have to do a clean install again of windows . This has happened 4 times . Specs : cpu fx 8150 , mobo Asus crosshair v formula , 8gb ram g.skill rip jaws 1600mhz ddr3 , gpu gtx 760 2gb , ssd samsung 840 evo 250gb , psu xfx 750watts.

System CPU: fx 8320 RAM: 12gb corsair vengeance GPU: rx480 4gb sapphire nitro SSD: toshiba q300 240gb hdd: toshiba 1tb 2.5" PSU: corsair cs650m OS: windows 10 pro I recently over clocked my amd fx 8320 to 4.4GHz. This was achieved through a multiplier of 22(might be off by a little bit, I can check if it's important to know the exact number.) and I upped the voltage by 0.150. I got it to 4.2 with no issues and without changing the voltage. so I tried upping it to 4.4 without changing the voltage and it blue screened within a minute running AIDA64. I then upped the voltage by 0.075 and it ran for 4/5 minutes before blue screening. However after upping the voltage to the value specified above the system ran for 3 hours on AIDA64 without crashing so I presumed everything was fine. Just to to add some context to his next part... programs such as google chrome would regularly crash and my SSD was getting slower booting. Over a a few days of having my PC overclocked I received two BSOD with error codes linking to corrupted data. I decided to format my SSD and reinstall windows after backing up to my secondary hard drive. the SSD is now unusable, windows installer detects it but can't add a volume to it (tried using disk part in the installer) and it can't find a volume on the drive at all. However, I've accepted that the SSD has kicked the bucket and I'll be getting a new one from the warranty but what I'm having an issue with is that after installing windows on a new mechanical hard drive and resetting voltages and clock speeds back to default my pc is incredibly slow and at times becomes unresponsive. A recurring situation is if I try to alt tab from portal 2 to anything my pc will display a black screen and won't take any input. It'll just sit there until I hard reboot the PC and then it'll go back into its sluggish state. another thing to note which may or may not be a factor is my GPU. I noticed there is a bios switch on my Rx 480 4gb and after googling I discovered this was for performance or quiet mode. Since it wasn't labelled which was which I turned the pc off and moved the bios switch then turned it back on, the clock speed went down to 1266 rather than the factory overclocked 1306. I turned the pc off, flipped the bios switch back and turned it back on and the clock speeds were still 1266. I haven't been able to recover the stock speeds through the bios. So if anyone can help with this as well I'd appreciate it. Sorry for the length of this, I just wanted to put all the info I could. Thanks to to anyone that can help.

Whenever I try to a system image recovery the mouse and keyboard don't work. I can't continue to do it because for some reason they don't even power on. They're plugged into the USB 2 ports on the motherboard and I've tried every port on the motherboard and even on the case. They don't power up at all.There's a PS/2 port but I don't have an adapter or a PS/2 keyboard to try. (ASUS Maximus VII Formula motherboard)

Ok. So a while back (late October I think) I built this computer. Not too long after that I began to see a problem. It seemed to be that if I shocked the computer, it would become unresponsive. The monitors would shut off, and the last half-second of audio would repeat (I was using the rear audio at the time). This happened every time I shocked the computer. Im not sure if the computer was actually running in the background, because the fans still went and my hue+ still had its lights on, but even if I let is sit for a while it would not recover. I tried reconnecting the monitor cables while it was like this but that didn't work. Now comes the bad part. I tried to move my headphones from off my desk so I could work, but I shocked them. Computer became unresponsive as usual. I rebooted the computer, and when I got to windows, I noticed that the audio had stopped working. I checked my drivers and they were all fine. I ran troubleshooting and it didn't see anything wrong Realtek software still works, and it even recognizes when I replug in my headphones in the back. Also, in the playback devices settings, the green audio bars show up when I play some audio. another weird thing is if I plug in my headphones at a weird angle part way, I get some really distorted computer audio in return. Im pretty sure I blew out my onboard sound. I bought a sound card to replace it, but I have blown that too in the same way. After this, I found that one of the cpu power cords was not plugged in all the way. I replugged it, but that did not solve my issue. Recently, I shocked something on my desk (my lamp which is 2 prong) and my computer went unresponsive. The lamp and the computer are plugged in to the same power strip, but that is the only way they are connected. I am not 100% sure the lamp is what caused the computer to go out, because the monitors were off anyway, and I was going to wake it. There is a possibility that it was shocked earlier and I didnt notice. But, when I went to boot it up again, some weird stuff happened. The bios screen took way longer than usual (like 30 seconds compared to 3) and then when my computer booted (to debian boot menu which I select windows from usually) it froze up. I rebooted the machine and went to bios (but it took 30 seconds of holding DEL) once there, I observed that the computer would run for about 5 seconds, then freeze completely, not letting me move the mouse or see onscreen animations. Then after like 10 seconds I would be able to move again, and the cycle would repeat. I am sure this is the reason the bios screen took so long. I shut down the computer, and unplugged it, waited a couple seconds, and plugged it in and rebooted. same issue. I shut down and unplugged and left it to sit all day I came back today and it seems to be working fine. Now I am scared to shock anything on my desk at all. Before you ask anything, here are things you should know List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cpwjqk My outlet is grounded. I have a tester and I tested it. My power strip is grounded. Its a custom built desktop computer I have not rebuilt my computer. Im pretty sure the standoffs are OK My power supply cord is a little wiggly, but I force it in as far as it goes to make sure its OK The shock to my computer can come from anywhere connected to it. I have had these happen: My mic My case My monitor My audio jack My lamp* An ethernet cord plugged into a switch plugged into an ethernet cord plugged into my computer Does anyone have any ideas what is wrong with my computer? My guess is that I have a faulty power supply.

80% of the time, I have no issues with my computer but more and more recently it seems to be struggling and as a PC novice, I'm not 100% on what could be causing that. I'm not sure if the problems I'm experiencing are connected or not but when my PC starts up and I go to type in my password, it seems to take a while to respond, or is very slow in starting up, I'm not sure if this could be in need of more RAM or another SSD. The other issue I have and when this usually happens I haven't had my eye on it, is it seems to turn itself off or crashes and then continues to restart (this is when I notice this has happened, as I have a small fan within my motherboard that makes a lot of noise when starting up), sometimes it has to do this a couple of times before it comes back online. I don't think we're having power cuts, because it wouldn't be able to turn itself back on, so I don't know if this is related to the other issue or not. I've had this computer for over a year, it's off the floor away from dust, nothing is blocking the fans unless they have a fine layer of some dust on them and I haven't changed my coolant, which I know I probably should but not sure on how to go about it. My ex overclocked my PC to like 30% and I have no idea about that to even want to attempt to mess about with that, in case that is the issue. He had installed programs on it so I could keep an eye on temperatures and that but I accidentally removed them and can't remember the name of the program to reinstall it. All parts were bought new and are only a couple years old and apart from these issues, it works a dream when gaming, streaming or working with multiple design programs at once. Any advice is welcomed!

Greetings. This is met to be an FYI for those who had the same problem. I already got mine fixed. I played NieR for roughly 13 hours across the first week I had the game. All of sudden, I couldn't open the game without it crashing to a white screen, maxing out my cpu 100%. I read around, couldn't find a complete fix. Here is how I fixed my game: >Uninstall Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (both x64 and x86) >Open Command Prompt in administrator mode. >Enter, "bcdedit -set DEBUG OFF" (no quotations) >Turn off your computer >After you turn your computer on, reinstall Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (both x64 and x86) Game should work now. Press Alt + Enter to fullscreen This is the only thing that worked for me. I tried to update/roll back my gpu drivers. As well clean installation of the game.You may give those a shot. It didn't help in my case. Hope this helps! Also good source: https://steamcommunity.com/app/524220/discussions/0/1327844097129846213/

OK here is the deal. System Specs: Brand new pc 4 months old Asus Pro Gaming H170 Motherboard i5 6500 / Highend CPU Cooler By Corsair /Wind Style Corsair DDR4 16GB 2100Ram Crucial SSD 256GB Main OS Drive Crucial SSD 256GB Gaming SSD / Programs Western Digital Black 1TB / Data Drive Western Digital Black 1TB / Additional Storage EVGA 750W PSU Modular 80P PSU Asus GTX 1060 6GB -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STEPS I TAKEN TO CONFIRM HARDWARE IS FINE: 1. Smart Test Pass 2. Mem Test Pass after 24 hours 3. Open Hardware Monitor temps are OK 25C with gaming 4. ALL fans connected properly and operating including CPU fan and PSU fan is operating normally. 5. All cables in pc checked and connected properly 6. Replaced ALL sata cables with new ones. 7. Ensured proper grounding and ensured video card is mounted properly and re-seated. 8. Ram SWAP the 2 sticks in proper position for dual channel. 9. Ran multiple virus software and reported no viruses including a few online scans. 10. Windows is clean and genuine! Windows 10 Pro / Fully up to date 11. Ensured i had all the latest drivers for my video card and hardware 12. Reinstall windows 10 Fresh Style reinstalled all drivers etc.. issue still applies after everything set up 13. I don't mess with bios or overclocking things! i keep bios at default 14. Tried a different monitor / keyboard mouse / unplugged all other USB items to see if they causing issue with PC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of all programs i always use and ones that start up with the pc --Runs at startup-- 1. Ge-force experience with streaming turned off! 2. Nvidia Control Panal 3. Windows Defender 4. Sound Blaster Z series control panel 5. Fraps 6. VMware Work station genuine 7. Steam --Software i use-- 1. Team viewer 2. Steam 3. Space 4. Slice audio file splitter 5. Sketchup 8 (trial) 6. Singularity Viewer (Virtual World Viewer) 7. Second Life Viewer 8. PSP Emulator 9. PS2 Emulator (PCSX2) 10. Pianoteq 2.3 11. Photoshop 12. OBS Studio 13. Nvidia LED Visualizer 14. NDS Emulator 15. Nano Studio 16. Project 64 Emulator 17. Firefox Browser 18. Mabinogi 19. IrfanView 20. Halo Custom Edition 21. GTA5 22. Google Chrome 23. Gom Player 24. Freemake Video Down loader 25. Fraps 26. Foobar2000 27. FL Studio 9 28. Dolphin Emulator 29. Crystal Disk 30. Cool Edit Pro 31. Blender 32. Autodesk 3ds max 2011 32Bit 33. Anvil Studio The ISSUE: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows 10 UI is acting funny examples of this issue here 1. Window trails. When dragging windows it leaves ghosted trails of it self sometimes but often! 2. Invisible Windows with boarders only. windows show up but the only thing u can see is the outline of the window in view 3. Navigating the explorer is stalled and laggy takes a long time to respond or do things such as right clicking. 4. Show hidden icons button when clicked shows a invisible window with no icons like the transparent box with nothing in it. 5. Restarting PC temporary fixes it. 6. Issue always returns! 7. Reinstalling still doesn't solve the issue and it will return!

Hello, I’m what’s known as a budget gamer who plays video games on a 6 year old laptop known as the HP pavilion g7 (I know blasphemy) and recently (about the beginning of last week) my integrated keyboard started encountering a bug. my keyboard randomly just dies and after a quick restart of the computer (which on this bad laptop isn’t quick) the keyboard starts working again like magic. I tried cleaning the keyboard, as well as reinstalling the keyboards drivers but nothing yielded any results I don’t think I have to explain the pain this situation has caused me, making me become even more of a bot on league of legends then I already am, unable to complete sortie missions on warframe, and I can’t even play some Minecraft bedwars, (that was a meme btw) but seriously this is causing me some problems and if any of y’all can help my fix this problem it would be greatly appreciated i assume this is a software issue I am on windows 8.1 no apps are running when it dies (accept Hp cool sense and one drive), and id assume there’s not error reports I can send

OS: Windows 10, 64 Bit CPU: i7-4790K GPU: GTX 980 SSD: Samsung 850 Evo PSU: EVGA Supernova G2 850w I have gone through a lengthy set of tests with Microsoft Support, including an OS Refresh, to no avail. I was originally there for another reason, but this issue got in their way quite a few times, and even disconnected me from them at one point. I ran CDM and CDI, and they both seem to show that the SSD is running fine. If you are wondering about the 0.000 spots on CDM, I clicked STOP and waited about 30 seconds for it to stop because it was THAT unresponsive. <<< I do not know what is causing Task Manager to see the Disk as if it were hitting 100%, but if it is at 100% and only about 0.5MB/s is being used, it will still be as unresponsive as if it were at 100% while doing 200MB/s, or even higher as CDM shows. I have watched Task Manger and it is literally every time it says the Disk is at 100%. >>> Update: This portion doesn't seem to be a problem anymore, even though Task Manager still shows the Disk being at 100% at times still. The CDM picture was taken with R.A.P.I.D. Mode turned on (I turned it on for testing purposes, and thought something was a little odd), but even still, I decided to reinstall Samsung Magician in case I had an outdated version. After reinstalling it, it no longer happens every time it hits 100% in Task Manager, but it does still happen, even with it being as low as 0.4MB/s. I am going to uninstall Samsung Magician entirely to see if that solves the issue. I have uninstalled Samsung Magician and... So far no problems. This is interesting. At this point, I am pointing my finger at Samsung Magician. You will see two graphs on Task Manager, and one shows 0KB/s Read and 0KB/s Write. This was when Samsung Magician was installed and I was running CDM. The second graph was when I closed CDM, which took about 30 seconds to do and looks more standard for usage. What does Samsung Magician do to cause that to happen? It seems useful to have installed (Especially because of Over Provisioning), but the problems it seems to cause are just not worth it. Is there a way to fix this problem that Samsung Magician seemingly causes? TL;DR - I started typing this when I felt like I was out of options, then I thought "Wait, there's one thing I haven't tested", so this changed from trying to find out what was causing the issue, to believing the one thing that supports the SSD is what causes it, and how to prevent it from causing it when installed. That's some irony.

hey, everytime i start a game like CSGO, Overwatch, Forza, Battlefield, COD, etc. my 1.5y/o pc freezes, and becomes fully unresponsive. so i have to reboot then start up. lately i have only been able to play games like Dota and leauge of legends. because they dont make my pc crash. i updated my bios last week, and i think windows updated too. but ever sense my pc has been acting weird. i've cleaned my pc for dust, so i dont belive thats the problem, but maybe some of my hardware could be acting out, or that bios/windows update might of disabled my pc from functioning. any advice, assistane or such is highly welcomed. please help me with this. PC specs: I7 7700k @ 4.20ghz (stock) Asus z270 prime Cryorig H7 fan HyperX 4x4gb ram @ 2600mhz (stock) MSI Sea Hawk (gtx 1080 AIO watercooled) Corsair MP500 240gb Samsung 850 Evo 512gb WB black 2tb Corsair 800W powersupply

So I have a GA-AX370 Gaming 5 Motherboard along with a Ryzen 7 1800x and a GTX 1080 FTW. I was downloading a driver for my audio on my pc, when it told me to restart. I restarted, but the pc wouldn't shut off, so I force shut it off. When I tried to turn it back on, the motherboard will flash through post codes indefinitely, and no LEDs on the motherboard turn on. Everything else seems fine. The drivers were being downloaded on my Samsung 960 EVO M.2 SSD. The monitor is not turning on, the computer is basically unresponsive. Side note, when I unplug the 18 pin power supply there seems to be a pin missing? Thanks for any help.

So I have a GA-AX370 Gaming 5 Motherboard along with a Ryzen 7 1800x and a GTX 1080 FTW. I was downloading a driver for my audio on my pc, when it told me to restart. I restarted, but the pc wouldn't shut off, so I force shut it off. When I tried to turn it back on, the motherboard will flash through post codes indefinitely, and no LEDs on the motherboard turn on. Everything else seems fine. The drivers were being downloaded on my Samsung 960 EVO M.2 SSD. The monitor is not turning on, the computer is basically unresponsive. Side note, when I unplug the 18 pin power supply there seems to be a pin missing? Thanks for any help.

Hello, my PC has became unstable for a week or two now, which basically means that on load (gaming, editing or multitasking) it freezes up completely, not even ctrl alt del or task manager can save me, I can see that the HDD is not being accessed because the light doesn't even light up, it's just off, and the only thing I can do is hold the power button for a few seconds and then boot it up again. I can't possibly think of a reason that would cause this main HDD is WD 500gb 7200rpm, secondary seagate barracuda 320gb 7200rpm cpu: intel xeon e5450 not overclocked gpu: GTX 750 Ti ram: 2gb 400mhz ddr2 ram, this will of course change in a few days, I'm suspecting this may be the problem but it hasn't occured before Windows 7 x64 The crashes are completely random, they can occur anywhere and in very different tasks which load the computer up

TL;DR My first build is experiencing lots of problems with booting, and when waking up from sleep. The History I know that I have a penchant for colorful language, so I will do my best to be as brief and as detailed as simultaneously possible. My computer has been experiencing many, many problems starting about 6 months ago. I built it in May, and I later learned that there were a few issues. Some of the mobo screws were not fully screwed into the standoffs, and some of the standoffs were not fully screwed into the case. After some time, I learned that the motherboard was shorting out, so I replaced the motherboard, took the build apart, fully screwed in the standoffs, and assembled the computer again, double checking each part as I went. This rebuild took place about two months ago. The Build PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (Purchased For $195.00) Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard (Purchased For $0.00) Memory: G.Skill - Aegis 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2800 Memory (Purchased For $130.00) Storage: SanDisk - Z400s 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $70.00) Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $80.00) Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon RX 480 8GB NITRO+ OC Video Card (Purchased For $200.00) Case: Rosewill - Galaxy-01 ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For $0.00) Monitor: Acer - XF240H 24.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor (Purchased For $180.00) Keyboard: Corsair - K70 Wired Gaming Keyboard (Purchased For $0.00) Keyboard: Corsair - K70 Wired Gaming Keyboard (Purchased For $0.00) Mouse: Logitech - G502 Proteus Core Wired Optical Mouse (Purchased For $0.00) Headphones: Kingston - HyperX Cloud Core Headset (Purchased For $0.00) Total: $855.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-12-06 23:54 EST-0500 The original motherboard was MSI B350M Bazooka but some advice from a PC Laptops technician convinced me to upgrade to an ATX Board. I have always kept up-to-date with the latest graphics drivers, and recently flashed my UEFI to ver 4.2 (the latest bios ver as of 12/6). The Problem In my case, I have an LED Fan, which lights up whenever the system is powered on. When this blue light is on, I shall refer to it as signal 1. On my case, I have an LED that indicates if the hard drive is active. When this light is on, either steadily flashing or solid, I shall refer to it as signal 2. Both my keyboard and mouse having backlighting, and when they are lit up, I shall refer to them as signal 3. And finally, my monitor automatically turns on when it has a signal and goes to sleep when it does not. When the monitor is lit up and receiving signal, I shall refer to it as signal 4. The case also has some sort of reset switch or CMOS button on the front, which I occasionally use while troubleshooting (as described below). _____________________________________________________________________ Frequently, when I come back from an extended period of inactivity, I will have 1, but not 2-4. Under normal circumstances, I could tap a few keys or make a few clicks, on the system would wake up, having all signals. However, the problem has arisen that the system is unresponsive, no amount of clicking keys or clicks can arouse the system, and I will have to do a hard reset (holding the power button down for 5+ seconds). Upon starting the system up from cold (completely off), I’ll get signal 1 immediately, followed by 2 and three for a brief period of time, then all signals except 1 go dark. Again, the system is unresponsive, unless I do a hard or soft reset (hitting the reset switch). The reset switch will frequently have the same result as the previously mentioned cold boot, but occasionally, without doing anything differently, it will boot to the UEFI logo, either freezing there, or allowing one or two loops of the ‘loading icon’ (the swirling dots), before freezing there. In these instances, I will have Signals 1 and 4, but not 2-3, and a hard reset produces a loop of the same type, going to the UEFI screen before freezing. Sometimes, booting from cold takes me to the previous result, of signals 1 and 4 (albeit frozen), but nothing from 2-3. Attempted Repairs /sfc scannow in the command prompt (running as administrator) -> no issues detected chkdsk in command prompt (run as admin) -> all disks healthy On occasion, I would be able to boot into the repair screen, and had access to the troubleshooting options. Automatic startup repair -> an error saying the system could not be repaired, with the following log: https://pastebin.com/eRtscZp7 Updating graphics drivers - > no change Rolling back graphics drivers -> no change Booting from flash drive -> this actually experienced the same problems as booting from my SSD Updating BIOS - > no change I’ve also included my DxDiag and will send my MSInfo when I can (since pastebin is being silly), in case those are helpful. Conclusion I’ve tried a lot of stuff, with no success, and it’s really irritating to have no clue where to even start. Please help. DxDiag.txt MSInfo.txt SrtTrail.txt

This started a couple of weeks ago. The top row numbers of my keyboard will randomly stop working. However, this is not a hardware issue as far as I can tell. The issue also happens on my mouse (corsair scimitar). If I hold shift and press the top row, symbols will be typed, however very, very slowly; like it's lagging. When I open Switch Hitter while this is happening, it shows that my keys only go "up", as in it's not registering a down press. The issue will go away on its own, and does not seem to be tied to anything. It can happen while gaming, browsing the web, typing, etc. If I sign out the issue is also resolved. I have done scans with rkill, malwarebytes, adwcleaner, and defender; all have found no issues. I have uninstalled and reinstalled keyboard drivers, also to no avail. I'm at a bit of a loss, really don't want to wipe the computer to try and fix this. OS: W10

Hello, So here is the problem, after a few skype calls, the skype interface always become laggy that is when you try to type something it will take time to appear or even move the window around is very unresponsive. Am using windows 10 anniversary edition. Not a pc performance issue, since its running a core i7 4770 and ssd. What is causing this? Thanks

So, a few months ago my escape key stopped working in games. I thought this was just a temporary thing, so I left it. Next thing I knew it starts to become unresponsive in other applications for example Google Chrome. I have looked through the internet and have tried many things like, reinstalling drivers, uninstalling certain apps, removing startup programs and a few more things. The only thing i can do to "fix" it is to spam escape, 2 and W, then it will be responsive again, but if i do anything in the game again, it will become unresponsive again. Please help me. -Felix