Random Crashes

[Farnomat]

Hi guys.

I started having random crashes a few months ago, but didn't do anything because I thought it's not that bad (and I'm lazy). But in the last few days it happened like 3 times a day and I really don't know what's causing this. I have only experienced it while doing light tasks, like watching Youtube. Well, rather only while watching YouTube. Maybe that's because I watch videos all the time, but it never has happened to me while gaming or while doing any other high-performance tasks. My screen just goes black and I hear a buzzing noise, which is just the last ~20ms of sound from the video, just over and over again. Usually it will just stay like that, but rarely it goes back to the video. I have to kill the PC by pressing the power button for 5 seconds, a simple click doesn't work.

Has anyone else experienced this? Or does anybody know how to fix it? I have no idea

Thanks in advance

[vorticalbox]

any overclocks? Sounds like a gpu issue. Try disabling gpu acceleration in your browser of choice and see if that helps. That's not a "fix" more of a work around. 

[pommedeterror007]

Make sure everything is dust free. I had an issue like this due to a failing powersupply aswell. Some specs would be nice.

[Farnomat]

23 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

any overclocks? Sounds like a gpu issue. Try disabling gpu acceleration in your browser of choice and see if that helps. That's not a "fix" more of a work around. 

22 hours ago, pommedeterror007 said:

Make sure everything is dust free. I had an issue like this due to a failing powersupply aswell. Some specs would be nice.

 

Thanks to you two for replying.

I had a small overclock on the GPU and I have disabled it. Everything is dust free, I have checked and sprayed my PC with some dusting spry (pressurized air), also I have dust filters on every intake fan, so dust isn't a problem.

I haven't had any crashes today (yet) but I haven't been using my PC a lot today, so wish me luck

 

Here are my specs:

Sapphire Nitro Tri-X R9 390

i5 6600k

Asus z170-a

1TB HDD

500GB SSD

Corsair 650i PSU