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  1. Juuzou

    Pc freezes and makes a buzzing noise please help

    My pc has been freezing and making a weird buzzing noise whenever I'm playing a game or watching YouTube even. And the only thing I can do is hold the power button to restart it back to normal I've had it on windows 10 and decided to do a clean install of 11 and still the issue is there all my...
    • Juuzou
    • Thread
    • buzzing sound freeze freezing
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows 11
  2. D

    Laptop freezes after few hours of work.

    So recently my laptop (Lenovo Ideapad 3) have been freezing after few hours of work. Few weeks ago it would also randomly display blue screen of error and go into BIOS more. Today I did a format and there's no such problem, but freezing didn't stop. I already turned with this problem to a...
  3. nizzy

    PC Randomly Freezing

    Hello. I am new here. I am having issue with my PC randomly freezing. It most often happens while having a video playing in one browser window and browsing the internet in another window. The PC seems to unfreeze immediately after hitting CTRL + ALT + DELETE keys simultaneously. The PC is...
  4. Matt Azzopardi

    Opening games freezes PC

    Pretty much any time I open a game it freezes my computer and I can't do anything about it except hard restart. Most of the time I can still move around my mouse but that's it, everything is unresponsive. Anytime I want to play a game I'm usually stuck for 30-60 minutes just trying to open the...
  5. Z

    PC Freezing 5-10 min after gaming. Won't boot for 5 minutes

    CPU: Ryzen 9 3900x MB: Asus AM4 TUF Gaming X570-Plus Wifi GPU: Geforce RTX 2080 SUPER RAM: G.SKILL NT Series 8GB DDR4 2133 (x2) PSU: EVGA - 750W GQ As the titles says my pc will freeze around 5 minutes from when I start gaming. This is not every game but it seems to be on games that would be...
  6. BIG YOUS

    Solved PC Keeps Crashing while gaming (continued)

    Last week I posted about an issue I was having with my PC where it would make a weird "pop" or "crack" sound in my headphones and crash on a frozen screen. We suspected the problem was with my PSU, so I decided to purchase a new one since I was planning on upgrading my GPU in the near future and...
  7. C

    Solved Graphics issues have been bugging me for weeks.

    Sorry if this is in the wrong place, this is my first time ever posting to a forum I lent a computer to someone for a couple of months and got it back about a month ago. It wouldn't boot when I got it back, an "Install Windows" error box popped up when the windows spinning thing appeared saying...
    • Cyber
    • Thread
    • driver driver error freeze freezing graphics card issue
    • Replies: 29
    • Forum: Internal Hardware
  8. Brotherhood79

    Intel Rapid Storage Technology crashing my laptop

    Greetings, I have a MSI GF65 Thin 10UE gaming laptop that has been freezing very often these days. The problem: The laptop completely freezes and takes in no input. The only short-term fix is to force shut-down the laptop. Sometimes there is a BSOD, but 90% there isn't one. The cause...
  9. D

    Warzone frame drops

    I know this game is badly optimised but anyway. I’ll load on and my frames will be at around 120-140wherever I look but then my game will freeze up my pc and I’ll have to shut my pc. This happens pretty much every first game on. Once up and running again my frames have dropped to about 80 and...
  10. GodHatesDabbing

    My computer randomly “shuts down” for no reason

    Let me preface this post by saying I’m not too well versed in the inner workings of computers, so if this is something obvious, I’m sorry! Thanks for your help! So I built my first pc last October with a LOT of help from a friend. He put together the parts list and helped me put it together...
  11. GreenTomte

    Pc randomly freezing and restarting

    My brothers pc is having a problem that it restarts randomly and freezes. Happens when gaming and looking on youtube. I have stress tested ram with memtest, cpu with prime95, hard drives with something random, gpu with furmark. Crash happend once while doing gpu stresstest. I did it 4 more...
  12. O

    Windows 10 Logo Freeze on startup

    This happened on my Alienware 17 (2014) laptop Just yesterday I had A problem with updating my Nvidia 860M graphics card driver, as I got an error message that stated that my Windows version is incompatible, however I was running the latest version so that shouldnt be a problem, I then found A...
    • OllieVader
    • Thread
    • freezing start up start-up windows 10 boot issue
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Windows 10
  13. A

    Solved PC freezing in games amongst other issues

    Hi Everyone, I really hope someone can help me as I'm getting really frustrated over this issue. I think the first thing to mention is that I've only been having issues over the past couple weeks, but initially I noticed when playing games my PC freezes spontaneously. It's odd because somedays...
  14. Pong876

    Random Freezing on HP Pavillion Gaming 17

    My Laptop keeps freezing after installing my dedicated GPU drivers (Intel(R) UHD 630) freezing is completely random and happens even when completing simple tasks and it just stays frozen until I turn off the PC with the power button.The Laptop works fine when I uninstall the GPU driver but then...
    • Pong876
    • Thread
    • driver updates freezing gpu failure hp pavillin gaming 17 laptop malfunction random freezing
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Laptop Support
  15. HauntedWindowsUser

    Solved Newly built PC experiencing the same issue (Stuttering) that made me build a new one.

    So my old PC was experiencing some stuttering (every 20-30 seconds it would freeze for half to one and a half seconds) after troubleshooting and not solving it for a week I instead decided to build a new one because it was gettting old and Black Friday was approaching. So I built and started...
  16. F

    PC keeps freezing when playing games

    My computer keeps permanently freezing when playing games, at seemingly random times, and I have to manually power off the PC. It's been happening since a few weeks, and I still haven't figured it out why. Things I tried already: Updating drivers (cpu, bios, gpu, sound, lan) Checking...
  17. D

    Computer freezes then gets more stable over time

    I purchased a huawei matebook D 14 AMD and when I first bought it it would start freezing, it did this for a while and slowly got more stable overtime until it was basically completely stable. Now when huawei pushed a bios update, the computer has begun to freeze up randomly again just like it...
    • Deleted member 2294
    • Thread
    • bios firmware freezing help
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Software Support
  18. B

    PC Freezing to Solid Color Screen

    Hi, I've been having trouble with my PC basically since I put it together. It will freeze to a solid color on my monitor (color seems to depend on what I have open) and none of my peripherals will respond. It also has NEVER happened while I was playing a game. I had done some overclocking on my...
  19. M

    Strange Memory Behavior - HP Pavilion All-in-One 24-r0xx

    My all in one desktop is having strange memory and performance problems. It's going up to maximum memory usage sporadically without much open. Usually it's google chrome, or photos showing up. The performance is going up to maximum percentage as well, and the computer slows down and doesn't...
  20. D

    Stutter With Every Activity Because Of DPC Latency

    So my computer has had this pause every couple seconds for the last 10 months or so. This happens when I'm gaming, browsing, watching, etc. After A lot of trial and error (found below) I found that my PC was getting huge DPC latency spikes on LatencyMon yet I'm still unable to fix it. I'm also...
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