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I have started having an issue where the computer is locking up. started doing it with windows in production, swapped it out and testing with ubuntu and still crashing.

System is a ASRock Z590 Pro4 motherboard with a i9-11900k and 2 sticks of RAM

Have run memtest and got a pass, have checked that it is running current BIOS.

In windows it would Hard lockup no BSOD nothing in event viewer.

In ubuntu it locks up and then reboots after a while.

Was running with onboard graphics, have put a GPU in and run off that with no difference.

It seems that if i run a CPU heavy task it will lock up quickly but with a gup load it will take longer, sometimes a few days.

I dont have another LGA1200 system to troubleshoot swapping parts.

Is there known problems I should know about? Anything I should try? or do i just take the opportunity to upgrade?

Thanks for any advice

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6 hours ago, pyrosrock said:

I have started having an issue where the computer is locking up. started doing it with windows in production, swapped it out and testing with ubuntu and still crashing.

System is a ASRock Z590 Pro4 motherboard with a i9-11900k and 2 sticks of RAM

Have run memtest and got a pass, have checked that it is running current BIOS.

In windows it would Hard lockup no BSOD nothing in event viewer.

In ubuntu it locks up and then reboots after a while.

Was running with onboard graphics, have put a GPU in and run off that with no difference.

It seems that if i run a CPU heavy task it will lock up quickly but with a gup load it will take longer, sometimes a few days.

I dont have another LGA1200 system to troubleshoot swapping parts.

Is there known problems I should know about? Anything I should try? or do i just take the opportunity to upgrade?

Thanks for any advice

how are those temps? is the system overheating? if it's sort of old you might need a repaste if the system get toasty 

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14 hours ago, y0ur5h4d0w said:

how are those temps? is the system overheating? if it's sort of old you might need a repaste if the system get toasty

Good thought ill give that a go, cant hurt. though the temps seem fine to me, idling around 37-41c loading the gpu and general use Im only seeing numbers in the 60s

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On 8/25/2025 at 3:10 AM, pyrosrock said:

I have started having an issue where the computer is locking up. started doing it with windows in production, swapped it out and testing with ubuntu and still crashing.

System is a ASRock Z590 Pro4 motherboard with a i9-11900k and 2 sticks of RAM

Have run memtest and got a pass, have checked that it is running current BIOS.

In windows it would Hard lockup no BSOD nothing in event viewer.

In ubuntu it locks up and then reboots after a while.

Was running with onboard graphics, have put a GPU in and run off that with no difference.

It seems that if i run a CPU heavy task it will lock up quickly but with a gup load it will take longer, sometimes a few days.

I dont have another LGA1200 system to troubleshoot swapping parts.

Is there known problems I should know about? Anything I should try? or do i just take the opportunity to upgrade?

Thanks for any advice

Try checking for corruption in windows. Run CMD as administrator and put in "sfc /scannow"

If it cannot repair corruption, try repairing it with "DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth"

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8 hours ago, pyrosrock said:

Good thought ill give that a go, cant hurt. though the temps seem fine to me, idling around 37-41c loading the gpu and general use Im only seeing numbers in the 60s

ok then temps are not the issue, do you have any HDD or SSD which are old? can you write down the full specs of your PC?

 

could be an issue related to a near to death drive, also if you can extract some logs from journalctl or dmesg from ubuntu we might find out something useful since windows event log doesn't show much usually.  

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                `+oooo:                  Host: Darkness
               `+oooooo:                 Kernel: Latest  
               -+oooooo+:                Packages: Only what i need to keep it simple
             `/:-:++oooo+:               Shell: ZSH
            `/++++/+++++++:              Main Monitor: LG Ultragear LG 27GS85Q 
           `/++++++++++++++:             Secondary Monitor: Asus MG28UQ
          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`           DE: Plasma Always Bleeding Edge  
         ./ooosssso++osssssso+`          WM: kwin 
        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`         Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3] 
       -osssssso.      :ssssssso.        Icons: Breeze-dark [GTK2/3] 
      :osssssss/        osssso+++.       Terminal: Kitty 
     /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-       Terminal Font: Noto Color Emoji 17 FreeMono 13 
   `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-     CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (16) @ 5.307GHz 
  `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:    GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 7800 XT 
 `++:.                           `-/+/   GPU: AMD ATI Radeon Graphics 
 .`                                 `/   Memory: 61830MiB

 

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I don't think it is drive related or install related, I swapped the drives (both NVME) I had my Ubuntu drive in a different motherboard with an Intel 265k. I swapped the windows drive into that motherboard and the Ubuntu drive into the 11900k system, the crashing stayed with the motherboard/CPU.

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