Programs/PC freeze but audio still plays.

[NeMo69420]

I recently built my pc 2 weeks ago. The first week everything went smoothly, but the second didn't. I was playing Valorant until my game froze, at first I thought my fps went to 0 but when I tabbed out I realised that none of my programs were loading. I thought nothing of this so I booted my PC. I went on Valorant again and then a few hours later same thing happened. I realise that I could interact with the task bar but it wouldn't allow me to restart the PC from windows. I booted my PC and restarted my PC from windows and everything was fine until 2 days later. Same thing was happening with Valorant. Sometimes when I would load up Roblox, the same thing would happen. I updated my bios and checked if all my drivers were up to date and still none of them helped. At first I suspected it was my integrated graphics but when it froze I reset my graphic driver and it didn't fix it. I now suspect its my AIO that is causing this, as I installed it a few days after my build. But I'm not sure how it is possible of the AIO of crashing my PC. Has anyone has this issue or have a fix to it?

 

Specs:

Ryzen 5 3400g (integrated graphics)

B450-f Gaming Motherboard

32gb Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3600mhz

NZXT Kraken Z73 AIO

 

[mickeybroski]

what power supply do you have buddy?
To my knowledge, AIO cannot crash pc. Unless there is something wrong with the software that you had to install to control it. I mean the problem can be anything, not much data to go by other than games and windows crashing...

I would run benchmarks, CPU and GPU intensive ones; meanwhile, check the voltage and powers and clocks and look for any anomalies...
you can also try rolling back you drivers for you IGPU, reinstall windows/repairing it.
best of luck