PC locking up, needs hard reset

Vezun · May 8, 2019

Well I have recently built my first computer, the first 2-3 days were fine, probably because I was just overclocking and updating drivers, I wasn't playing anything too demanding, but in the last 2 days weird things started happening. PC started locking up randomly while I was playing Metro or anything else except less demanding games like Minecraft etc., the PC would not respond at all, ctrl+alt+del won't work, keyboard and mice stopped responding too (Caps Lock light on keyboard wouldn't light up when I pressed Caps Lock), the RGB on my mice and keyboard would stay lit up, all temps were fine (GPU 67°C, CPU 54°C under load), when the PC locked up I wouldn't hear the same sounds repeating or anything at all, they stopped. Image on screen just stopped and wouldn't move at all. I double checked my drivers except my motherboard's BIOS driver, could that be the problem? I'm asking this because I'm not on my computer right now and I would like to know what to do when I come home. GPU: MSI GTX 1660 Ti GAMING X (i overclocked clock speed to +115MHz and memory +900) CPU: Ryzen 5 2600X (4 GHz) 1x8GB 2666MHz RAM (overclocked to 28??MHz, im not sure if it is overclocked to 2880 or just to 2800, i want to upgrade my ram later) Motherboard: MSI B350 Gaming Plus

Storage: 1TB Seagate Barracuda (old model). And I checked the Event Viewer before and it was just the Kernel Power problem because I need to hard reset each time. So, should I just upgrade my BIOS drivers and it will be fine or what? (i just dont think the driver is the problem here because it wasnt happening before)

hconverse02 · May 8, 2019

First, disable the overclock, because sometimes an unstable overclock causes weird things. Do you know how to use DDU or how to clear the cmos? Do the latter to reset graphics drivers. If the issue isn't fixed after that, make sure to update the rest of the system drivers and get back to us after that.