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ok so im having problems with my pc freezing up and requiring me to do a hard reboot and it seems to happen mainly during gaming but will also happen while watching youtube or just browsing online. ive noticed that caps lock and num lock wont turn on or off while its frozen. 

specs are windows 10 64 bit, I5 6600k with an aio cooler, 16gb of ram, asus z170a motherboard, gtx 980 ti thats water cooled, evga 650 BQ power supply, 1tb wd hard drive. if i forgot anything let me know but im starting to get pretty frustrated and dont really know what else to do to troubleshoot

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First, I'd download and run memtest86 from a flash drive to test your RAM.

 

Next, I'd run a AIDA64 stability test stressing everything and watching thermals.

 



 

Main Rig:

Case: Lian Li Lancool Mesh RGB

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 

Cooler: CoolerMaster MasterLiquid 240

MB: MSI B550 Gaming Pro Carbon 

Ram: Gskill DDR4 3600 x 32GB 

GPU: Asus Arez Strix Vega 64 OC

PS: Seasonic FOCUS Gold Plus Series SSR-750FX

SSD1: Crucial P1 1TB NVME

SSD2: Adata SU800 512gb M.2 Sata

HDD: Hitatchi 2tb 7200RPM + 3x 2TB WD Passport USB 3.0

Monitors: AOC C24G1

Keyboard: Cheap Blue Knockoff Mechanical

Mouse: Uhuru Gaming Mouse
OS: Pop! 21.04



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Asus P5A-B Socket 7 Box, Tandy 1000RLX-HD "B" & 1200-2FD, VIC20, Zenith ZFL-181-93, Packard Bell 300SX.

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