Random freezing

[Rainbrew]

Hello, I recently ran into an issue with my PC where it would randomly freeze for a second or two with an audio glitch and then continue working as normal. I did a clean install of drivers with DDU and when that didn't work I did a clean windows install. Now the issue has developed as now when the computer freezes certain programs stop functioning entirely while others are fine. For example I was following a Blender tutorial on one monitor with Blender open on the other, and both VLC and Blender stopped functioning while I was still able to click around windows and use Firefox. What's odd is however that I was unable to shut off my PC through windows and unable to use almost any functions but my browser was fine. I installed Crystal Disk and according to it both SSDs are in good health so I'm not sure what the issue could be and what to check further.

Specs:

Ryzen 7 5800x

Asus TUF x570 Plus Wifi

32gb DDR4 3600Mhz

Gtx 1060 6gb MSi

1x m.2 512gb ssd

1x 256 Sata ssd

 

Any help greatly appreciated

[Rainbrew]

On 10/31/2021 at 11:24 PM, Rainbrew said:

Hello, I recently ran into an issue with my PC where it would randomly freeze for a second or two with an audio glitch and then continue working as normal. I did a clean install of drivers with DDU and when that didn't work I did a clean windows install. Now the issue has developed as now when the computer freezes certain programs stop functioning entirely while others are fine. For example I was following a Blender tutorial on one monitor with Blender open on the other, and both VLC and Blender stopped functioning while I was still able to click around windows and use Firefox. What's odd is however that I was unable to shut off my PC through windows and unable to use almost any functions but my browser was fine. I installed Crystal Disk and according to it both SSDs are in good health so I'm not sure what the issue could be and what to check further.

Specs:

Ryzen 7 5800x

Asus TUF x570 Plus Wifi

32gb DDR4 3600Mhz

Gtx 1060 6gb MSi

1x m.2 512gb ssd

1x 256 Sata ssd

 

Any help greatly appreciated

Update for anyone experiencing this issue in the future. It turns out that the audio driver on my motherboard manufacturers website was NOT the newest version, and after running Asus armoury it actually showed that there was an update available for it (even though I downloaded the latest version off the website). Since that update everything has been running fine.

TL;DR Onboard audio driver + gpu driver conflict, plus not having latest driver on mobo website.