random freezing

[steve...121]

I've got an odd situation going on so I recently swapped my r5 2600x with a r7 5700 and swapped my GTX 1660 for a RTX 3050 I got 1 or 2 BSOD after the install thought nothing of it then a few days after when I'd play games part way through playing it would just go to a black screen then would reboot straight away so I reinstalled windows now after a bit of gameplay the game freezes which I would've thought to be a ram issue or something but windows is still useable apart from things not loading like task manager and file explorer not opening at all this is happens at random points usually between 10-30mins up to about an hour so I had a look at event viewer all that's coming back that seems to be a red flag is this "Windows cannot load the extensible counter DLL "C:\WINDOWS\system32\sysmain.dll" (Win32 error code The specified module could not be found.)." I thought I'd ask what people suggest before I reinstall windows again

[CommanderAlex]

Since you replaced some hardware parts, I'd reinstall Windows again to get to a clean state. 

[steve...121]

1 hour ago, CommanderAlex said:

Since you replaced some hardware parts, I'd reinstall Windows again to get to a clean state. 

okay I will do later

[CommanderAlex]

45 minutes ago, steve...121 said:

okay I will do later

Ok, keep us posted!

[steve...121]

On 1/21/2025 at 1:37 AM, CommanderAlex said:

Ok, keep us posted!

it's been a long while since the issue occurred but it seems to have somewhat come back looking for a quick opinion my PC has been randomly freezing sometimes rebooting and just gets stuck bootlooping as windows boots the loading wheel starts to sort of stutter then freeze and sometimes it freezing and staying with windows open but nothing responds and the cursor then chooses not to respond thoughts have come to that I either have a faulty MB or the PSU is reaching the end of the road motherboard is Asus B550-F Gaming WiFi II and PSU is a FSP 500W that's about 7-8 years old now which doesn't see much of being turned off with about 120 hours to 160 on average depending on circumstances the boot SSD is brand new replaced it as thinking that was my issue RAM seems relatively fine I've swapped through multiple sticks of ram CPU isn't even over a year old so motherboard and PSU seem like the likely cause to me just looking for other ppls opinions before I spring out on spending more without what people think also to add I haven't experienced the issue when I boot into Ubuntu but I don't really main Ubuntu and Ubuntu is on a HDD but now that I realise I mentioned this issue happening back in January but I've been busy at points but the original issue used to be around 2-3 hours of usage before it would do it