PC Freezes on random occasions, i think it's my GPU

[Ali Addas]

Hello, 

I have this frustrating problem where I would just be on my computer as usual, not doing anything demanding, Discords, Chrome.

And out of nowhere, my computer freezes and if it happens that there was a loud noise playing at that same exact moment, it would

just spam it over and over again. My only options at this point is to force, power off the computer. This has never happened before, 

I had taken my computer downstairs in it's original box just so it wouldn't get dirty while I was away on vacation. When i came back,

it booted fine the first time but I very quickly noticed something wrong. It felt the computer suffering over nothing, then froze.

 

I try booting the computer on, and it doesn't work. All fans are spinning and lights are on. But no video. I had an orange light on the motherboard

that would stay on which I had never seen it to. I found answers on the forum and it was about a problem with my RAM. So i changed the RAM from

RAM slots to see if one was defect or maybe even my RAM sticks themselves, but I gave up. Next morning, what would you know. The computer 

boots up just fine. But the freezes would still occur and i feel like there are some things that are triggering it. For example. Being in a discord voice chat

and using chrome at the same time. Would freeze the computer.

 

These are my Specs, i built this computer myself and it has been running without any issue until very recently. I built it back in Januari.

 

- ASUS Rog Strix B450-f gaming motherboard

- AMD Ryzen 5 2600 stock

- G.skill Trident Z RGB RAM 16GB

- KFA2 (Galax) GTX 1060 6GB

- 120GB SSD (Boot Drive)

- 2TB HDD (Game storage and more)

- Case, Corsair spec-06 white RGB

My conclusion: It has to be drivers or something had happened to the computer, maybe it fell, maybe there is a short in the case somewhere, I'm just not sure

 

Hope somebody can help me out.

 

Ali, Addas.

Edited September 3, 2019 by Ali Addas
Forgot some important details.

[MadAnt250]

@Ali Addas I had the same problem on my old pc, it would not post and just keep beeping, pulled the ram sticks out one by one and, after more testing it worked long enough to boot windows but, it would freeze. The problem turn out to be a bad ram stick.

[Ali Addas]

19 hours ago, MadAnt250 said:

@Ali Addas I had the same problem on my old pc, it would not post and just keep beeping, pulled the ram sticks out one by one and, after more testing it worked long enough to boot windows but, it would freeze. The problem turn out to be a bad ram stick.

Ah that sucks. I don't think I have a bad RAM stick because i can actually start some heavy tasks. It just happens on very random occasions.

[BTGbullseye]

Could be anything from overheating VRMs on the motherboard, to a virus, to a driver that doesn't like you... Until you basically start swapping hardware with another system to compare, you really haven't got much to go on.

 

I will say that I was having similar issues with my VRMs overheating, and then it eventually died and took my CPU with it. RMAd both.

[Ali Addas]

On 9/6/2019 at 3:27 AM, BTGbullseye said:

Could be anything from overheating VRMs on the motherboard, to a virus, to a driver that doesn't like you... Until you basically start swapping hardware with another system to compare, you really haven't got much to go on.

 

I will say that I was having similar issues with my VRMs overheating, and then it eventually died and took my CPU with it. RMAd both.

I have still no clue what the issue is, but i have found a workaround for now. Once every 3-4 days the pc boots but doesn't initialize display. So the only thing that seems to help is unplugging the extra GPU power and removing the ram, booting once, then putting everything back as before. That seems to be the way to go for now, but i can't imagine this being healthy to the computer. I'm asking around at AMD, Asus and Galax to know if they have had similar issues. I'm just very confused that this happened randomly, i didn't have a single issue with it. But thanks for your comment anyway! Helps a lot.

[BTGbullseye]

On 9/8/2019 at 3:46 PM, Ali Addas said:

I have still no clue what the issue is, but i have found a workaround for now. Once every 3-4 days the pc boots but doesn't initialize display. So the only thing that seems to help is unplugging the extra GPU power and removing the ram, booting once, then putting everything back as before.

That sounds like something is wrong with the motherboard... Could also be the PSU not outputting enough power...

[Pauleft]

On 9/3/2019 at 3:49 PM, Ali Addas said:

Hello, 

I have this frustrating problem where I would just be on my computer as usual, not doing anything demanding, Discords, Chrome.

And out of nowhere, my computer freezes and if it happens that there was a loud noise playing at that same exact moment, it would

just spam it over and over again. My only options at this point is to force, power off the computer. This has never happened before, 

I had taken my computer downstairs in it's original box just so it wouldn't get dirty while I was away on vacation. When i came back,

it booted fine the first time but I very quickly noticed something wrong. It felt the computer suffering over nothing, then froze.

 

I try booting the computer on, and it doesn't work. All fans are spinning and lights are on. But no video. I had an orange light on the motherboard

that would stay on which I had never seen it to. I found answers on the forum and it was about a problem with my RAM. So i changed the RAM from

RAM slots to see if one was defect or maybe even my RAM sticks themselves, but I gave up. Next morning, what would you know. The computer 

boots up just fine. But the freezes would still occur and i feel like there are some things that are triggering it. For example. Being in a discord voice chat

and using chrome at the same time. Would freeze the computer.

 

These are my Specs, i built this computer myself and it has been running without any issue until very recently. I built it back in Januari.

 

- ASUS Rog Strix B450-f gaming motherboard

- AMD Ryzen 5 2600 stock

- G.skill Trident Z RGB RAM 16GB

- KFA2 (Galax) GTX 1060 6GB

- 120GB SSD (Boot Drive)

- 2TB HDD (Game storage and more)

- Case, Corsair spec-06 white RGB

My conclusion: It has to be drivers or something had happened to the computer, maybe it fell, maybe there is a short in the case somewhere, I'm just not sure

 

Hope somebody can help me out.

 

Ali, Addas.

It's probably ram but it could also be you ssd or whatever you run your windows on. I had that issue before and it turned out my crappy ssd was dying then it corrupted windows at some point