PC freezes unexpectedly a few months post-installation, accompanied by incomplete black screens.
PC freezes unexpectedly a few months post-installation, accompanied by incomplete black screens.
About 14-15 days ago while playing Civ 6, my screen "froze", it wasn't a true freeze but it was just the game that froze, then after trying to use TM to force close it as Alt+F4 wasnt working, my browser then froze, no applications would open, and TM froze with my backgrounds. I used the panel button and restarted the pc. Hours later doing something else, it froze again. Same deal backgrounds froze, applications weren't working nor opening, used the button again. I did some looking to not much info. Day later, same thing again and same thing day after that. I thought I fixed it by updating my Graphics Driver and updating Windows, etc. Nothing happened for ~2 days even playing Civ 6 until now. Playing with my friend again and the pc just completely restarted. Game > Black Screen for a bit > Loading Screen > Lock Screen. Another thing I have tried before, although I couldn't understand how to read it, was check event viewer. Nothing stuck out other than once on the 3rd freeze/crash, something about Watchdog. I'm also kind of suspecting but not sure, if its a Heat issue, because when I built this pc near the beginning of October, I had to clean the paste cuz I put too much on and the paste almost fell into the Mobo's Pins but got it cleaned and finished putting it together. I'm also wondering if it could be air bubbles in the AIO cooler pump. The pipes on Pump are down with the Radiator being top mounted Pipes near front. I also tried about a week ago was to see if a restore point would work but it keep failing due to a file being missing or failing to extract.
Another thing occurring is at random though rare, black shapes will flicker onto my second monitor, when appearing mostly shows as squares. (After a bit this has yet to happen again)
If more info is needed, please ask, I wanna be able to game without this freezing or crashing going on.
My Specs if that is needed are:
CPU: Ryzen 9 7900x
Mobo: Asus ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming Wifi
Cooler: DeepCool LT720
GPU: Asus KO RTX 3060 12 GB
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 32 GB (2x16gb) 6000mhz CL30
Storage: Crucial P3+ 1 TB & Crucial P3 4TB
PSU: Corsair RM850x 850W Gold
OS: Windows 10 Pro (IDK if this matters but was bought from Other World Computing, a MAC Dealer, Ironic)
Fans: Most of the fans are Lian Li SL140 & SL120, fans on the radiator are the ones that came with the AIO being FK120
BIOS Version: American Megatrends Inc 0805, 11/4/2022
Monitors: Primary - LG 32GN500 | Secondary - Acer ED273
I have also seen a few posts that Asus Armory Crate could cause this but still not sure if its the issue or not. I'm not wanting to do a reset unless its absolutely necessary as I don't want to reset, redownload everything, and it do this all over again. As I have had issues in the past with previous pcs and resetting never fixed it.
And Just had another black screen to lock screen screen restart today.
Shortly after noticing the age of the bios, I made the update and turned on EXPO II again.
It looks like Microsoft GameInput might be triggering the crashes. The system displays "reconfigured" while it's happening, and I'm unsure how to resolve this since I rely heavily on Xbox features. This is becoming frustrating.
The test succeeded, I also configured GameInput Service Host to Manual and disabled auto.
The Randomy Black shapes continue to show. Recently, they occupied most of the second monitor, covering about 11/12 of the screen, with a small area remaining in the top left. This issue is limited to the second monitor.
I constructed my PC a few months back and suddenly it began freezing unexpectedly. When it runs for a reasonable amount of time with little load, it freezes. Under heavy stress tests, the system also freezes. I have to force a hard reset using the case power button. If I attempt to power it back up immediately, the screen lights up, fans spin, but it doesn’t appear and then restarts repeatedly without any monitoring. When unplugged and plugged back in, it powers on normally but freezes much quicker this time, taking about a minute. I have reinstalled Windows and unplugged all peripherals, yet the issue continues. A CPU test indicated 7% throttling—its meaning is unclear. It functioned without problems for several months before freezing constantly now.
Could this be related to hardware or BIOS? Any suggestions to pinpoint the problem would help. I’m confused.
Specs:
- MSI MGP Z790 Edge Wi-Fi
- Latest BIOS: I7 13700K
- Evga 3080 FTW
- Evga Supernova 1000+
- Corsair DDR5 6200MHz
- 10 Lian Li Infinity Fans / 2 Lian Li Streaming GPUs/MB
it seems the problem might have been resolved after removing the new monitor and switching back to the old one. I recently got a new monitor, and the issues began once I connected it as the primary and used the old one as secondary. After unplugging the new primary monitor, everything worked fine again with just the old one. Not sure what caused it, but it seems to be resolved now.