My pc freezes (in a weird way) with vibrations like the ones when you attach a steering wheel to the desk...

[TJPCR]

Hello all!

As the title says, my PC freezes when a sudden movement is applied to the case, took me a while to pinpoint what was the trigger for the issue, until one day I accidentally kicked the leg of my desk and it froze inmediatly, after that, I installed the case in the floor and never again one single freeze.

The weird thing is that when this happens my pc does this “click” sound (the one that sounds when turning on/off your pc) then video goes to black and all fans spins at 100% so it’s kinda scary, after that pc wont freeze for like 10 seconds (I can keep talking with my friends in discord for example) and then it will completely die until reboot, windows report a kernel-power error 41.

I have a 4090 rog strix and I was wondering if maybe being a heavy card with oscilations it would move inside the pci-express slot causing a critical event. My case has a holder for big video cards it can be seen on this photo:

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My question is, is it normal for vibration to trigger freezes like the ones on my pc? or maybe a component should be taken care of?

[Rustys]

Could be …

HDD failure starting.
Fan hitting something.
Something loose.
I have heard it from PSU’s.
Since you have a water cooler could be the pump.

[TJPCR]

Could be …

HDD failure starting.
Fan hitting something.
Something loose.
I have heard it from PSU’s.
Since you have a water cooler could be the pump.

Currently not using any HDD so I’ll leave that out of the questions.

[Rustys]

Could be …

HDD failure starting.
Fan hitting something.
Something loose.
I have heard it from PSU’s.
Since you have a water cooler could be the pump.

[Bruce]

if it only happens when the PC is on the desk, and is fine when on the floor, you’d have to say something is not quite seated right, or a lose cable.
I assume you have checked all that.

not knowing the specs, if the CPU/mobo supports onboard graphics, remove your GPU and see if the issue goes away when desk mounted.

lastly, you could sit the case on some foam, rubber, speaker isolation pads, or some cut down pool noodle foam - something to test that side of things.