System Freezes Regularly. Black Screen and no input.

[ToastedCrumpets]

Hi,

 

I'm facing a really frustrating issue where my system regularly freezes. I have no idea what is causing the issue, but I suspect it's my graphics card.

 

How do I identify which piece of hardware is faulty (or confirm it's the GPU). I switched my GPU to a very, very old one and the issue went away so that indicates GPU in my view.

 

Is there anything I can do to fiz the issue?

 

Any help on this would be amazing!

 

Description of issue

Every so often, my system will freeze. I'll be unable to provide any inputs (e.g. moving mouse or typing has no affect) and the display will freeze for 2-3 seconds. Then, the display will go black for 2-3 seconds. Then my display will reappear and everything will be back to normal. If I was playing a game, the game will crash during this.

 

System Logs

This log always comes up:

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

The log is always followed by this one:

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{2593F8B9-4EAF-457C-B68A-50F6B8EA6B54}
 and APPID 
{15C20B67-12E7-4BB6-92BB-7AFF07997402}
 to the user NICOLAS-PC\nicol SID (S-1-5-21-2079866106-2751985538-3490447069-1001) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

 

Solutions I've Tried

• Underclocking GPU
• Undervolting GPU
• Rolling back display driver
• Disabling HDR on my monitor/windows
• Reducing refresh rate on my monitor from 140hz to 120hz

 

[drdrewnatic]

On 5/19/2022 at 12:00 AM, ToastedCrumpets said:

I switched my GPU to a very, very old one and the issue went away so that indicates GPU in my view.

How do you know the issue went away? Can you recreate the issue?

 

How long has it been doing this?

 

Troubleshooting Steps (in no particular order):

• Complete driver reinstall using DDU
• Turn XMP off
• Running the system with a single stick of RAM
• Installing the GPU into a different slot?
• Testing memory with MemTest86
• OS reinstall
• Stress test system
• Update BIOS
• Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers" in registry and change the value of "TdrDelay" to 10

I am currently dealing with a very similar issue to yours. I'm intrested in what your results are.