My Pc freezes Randomly

[dotripo]

My computer has been doing this for quite a while and I don't know what to do

It sometimes freezes randomly or when I switch tabs (mostly from Valorant to Chrome between my 2 monitors) I can move the mouse and interact with the interface and it responds to the action that I perform but nothing is updated on my monitors I can only tell anything has happened because it still makes the sound. I have clean reinstalled Windows and my graphics drivers. I suspected that the SSD was overheating because the temperature in India is usually around 43°C
the temps of my CPU and GPU are usually 40°C and 50°C while running Valorant

Please help if someone knows the solution to this issue.

My PC specs are
intel i5 10400F
Gigabyte RTX 3060 12G
16GB DDR4 RAM
Asrock B560 steel legend motherboard
Gigabyte 650W power supply
Nvme crucial 512GB SSD (Boot drive)
Sata crucial 512GB SSD
512 GB HDD (Probably failing)

[VaderCraft_]

What drive is valorant stored on?

[dotripo]

Just now, VaderCraft_ said:

What drive is valorant stored on?

Nvme drive which is also my C drive

 

[VaderCraft_]

Oh okay, I re-read your OP and I just realized I didn't have the same issue as you. I'm not sure what temperature is bad for an SSD, cause if it was overheating the whole OS would also struggle and possibly crash (I believe). I don't know too much about thermodynamics and computers except for more heat = bad.

[SpookyCitrus]

10 minutes ago, dotripo said:

512 GB HDD (Probably failing)

A failing HDD can cause the whole computer to freeze, if you're confident your HDD is failing I'd remove it entirely. Even if you aren't accessing or it's in use, even it just being plugged into the system can cause crashing and freezing.

 

Also, a common issue with running dual monitors and having the game in full screen is that if you are alt tabbing it will freeze occasionally for a few seconds before you select which program to focus on or whilst tabbing back into the game. That's just normal behavior. To prevent that, if that is what is happening. It would be as simple as running your game in borderless windowed or standard windowed, that will allow you to alt tab between programs and the game without it freezing. Alt tabbing a game that is in Fullscreen or exclusive fullscreen is going to have some level of freezing or black screening whilst tabbing in or out. 

[dotripo]

25 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Also, a common issue with running dual monitors and having the game in full screen is that if you are alt tabbing it will freeze occasionally for a few seconds before you select which program to focus on or whilst tabbing back into the game. That's just normal behavior. To prevent that, if that is what is happening. It would be as simple as running your game in borderless windowed or standard windowed, that will allow you to alt tab between programs and the game without it freezing. Alt tabbing a game that is in Fullscreen or exclusive fullscreen is going to have some level of freezing or black screening whilst tabbing in or out. 

I play in windowless windowed mode and my PC freezes indefinitely until I hard reset the system, I will remove the harddisk.

[VaderCraft_]

Wait do you have a slideshow as your background image(s)?

 

 

Edit: If so turn it off, I had this same issue 3+ years ago and every time it switches to a new image it needs to load that specific image as quick as it can so it can easily eat up drive usage.

[dotripo]

29 minutes ago, VaderCraft_ said:

Wait do you have a slideshow as your background image(s)?

 

 

Edit: If so turn it off, I had this same issue 3+ years ago and every time it switches to a new image it needs to load that specific image as quick as it can so it can easily eat up drive usage.

No

[dotripo]

On 6/25/2024 at 10:04 PM, SpookyCitrus said:

A failing HDD can cause the whole computer to freeze, if you're confident your HDD is failing I'd remove it entirely. Even if you aren't accessing or it's in use, even it just being plugged into the system can cause crashing and freezing.

Well I unplugged the failing HDD and my computer is still becoming non-responsive while  changing tabs indefinitely 

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

1 hour ago, dotripo said:

Well I unplugged the failing HDD and my computer is still becoming non-responsive while  changing tabs indefinitely 

You could try different things. I know some of this might be a hassle. 

1. Try memory diagnostics test, to ensure it's not your RAM that has failed sectors on it. Recommend to take the long test and let it run overnight, can take hours.

How to Use Windows Memory Diagnostic | Microsoft Surface

 

2. I know this is a hassle, but could be your SSD which is failing. I experienced this on an Intenso 120GB ssd, where it would randomly freeze, music still running, mouse moves, but when I click on tabs, unresponsive and picture frozen. 

Try installing windows on another drive using that new bootdrive, see if the problems' gone. (didn't go away after reinstalling on the same SSD for me, so the problem WAS the SSD. I replaced it, problem gone, now the SSD is used as a game drive, and works good enough for that ).