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How does my computer freeze?
My computer tends to freeze in different ways on and different situations, first of all the freeze usually just makes me unable to use any of the windows I have open and doesn't let me open new ones, expect Task Manager which I have been able to open at least once I recall (I was unable to close any of the windows with my Task Manager and the values my Task Manager was showing were also frozen.) This type of freeze seems to build up, what I mean by this is that it starts with one window the an another and so on. Sometimes this freeze also freezes my cursor, either way the only solution I've found to get out of this freeze is forcing my PC to shut off by holding the power button. I should also mention using Windows commands like Alt + Tab and Ctrl + Alt + Del don't work during the freeze. I came upon a new type of freeze which seemed a lot more severe to me and it's the reason I'm asking for help now and the freeze just froze anything instantly without the build up and froze my cursor just like the previous one but this freeze also turned my keyboard off (mouse was still powered) and made me unable to shut my pc off with the power button.
What causes the freeze?
More like what am I doing during the freeze.. because I have no idea what causes the freeze. First of all I should mention the freeze happens quite often usually once a day, sometimes I can go like 2 days without the freeze and sometimes my PC would crash like 4 times a day. So, what am I doing during the freeze, well just browsing, but not always. My PC seems to freeze the most when I'm just using my browser to watch videos or read stuff or whatever. But I recall at least one time when my PC just froze when I was idling with only my Discord and Spotify open (These are the two apps I ALWAYS have on). There is one interesting this to the freezes though, which is that I don't recall I single time my PC would have frozen when I was playing something even if I have my browser open on the second monitor which seems a bit odd.
Last words and specs
My PC has been doing the freezes for moths now and I bought the PC almost a year ago from someone who had it built (also the guy I bought it from seemed legit, nice helpful and really caring about the PC so I doubt he sold me a broken PC.)
But yea thanks for reading and helping and sorry for such a poorly written essay, I don't usually ask much help I prefer just googling and figuring it myself but I've hit a wall here that's why I fear it may be a hardware issue, my guess is the RAM, but I want to get better opinions before I start buying replacements. And ye I've tried figuring this out myself and tried some stuff and I'm sorry I can't remember the things I have tried, I tried finding the same article of things I tried but couldn't find it again.
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
16 GB RAM
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING (AM4)
Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
BIOS Date: 09/18/19 10:51:30 Ver: 05.0000D
Browser I use: Google Chrome
My computer tends to freeze in different ways on and different situations, first of all the freeze usually just makes me unable to use any of the windows I have open and doesn't let me open new ones, expect Task Manager which I have been able to open at least once I recall (I was unable to close any of the windows with my Task Manager and the values my Task Manager was showing were also frozen.) This type of freeze seems to build up, what I mean by this is that it starts with one window the an another and so on. Sometimes this freeze also freezes my cursor, either way the only solution I've found to get out of this freeze is forcing my PC to shut off by holding the power button. I should also mention using Windows commands like Alt + Tab and Ctrl + Alt + Del don't work during the freeze. I came upon a new type of freeze which seemed a lot more severe to me and it's the reason I'm asking for help now and the freeze just froze anything instantly without the build up and froze my cursor just like the previous one but this freeze also turned my keyboard off (mouse was still powered) and made me unable to shut my pc off with the power button.
What causes the freeze?
More like what am I doing during the freeze.. because I have no idea what causes the freeze. First of all I should mention the freeze happens quite often usually once a day, sometimes I can go like 2 days without the freeze and sometimes my PC would crash like 4 times a day. So, what am I doing during the freeze, well just browsing, but not always. My PC seems to freeze the most when I'm just using my browser to watch videos or read stuff or whatever. But I recall at least one time when my PC just froze when I was idling with only my Discord and Spotify open (These are the two apps I ALWAYS have on). There is one interesting this to the freezes though, which is that I don't recall I single time my PC would have frozen when I was playing something even if I have my browser open on the second monitor which seems a bit odd.
Last words and specs
My PC has been doing the freezes for moths now and I bought the PC almost a year ago from someone who had it built (also the guy I bought it from seemed legit, nice helpful and really caring about the PC so I doubt he sold me a broken PC.)
But yea thanks for reading and helping and sorry for such a poorly written essay, I don't usually ask much help I prefer just googling and figuring it myself but I've hit a wall here that's why I fear it may be a hardware issue, my guess is the RAM, but I want to get better opinions before I start buying replacements. And ye I've tried figuring this out myself and tried some stuff and I'm sorry I can't remember the things I have tried, I tried finding the same article of things I tried but couldn't find it again.
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
16 GB RAM
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING (AM4)
Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
BIOS Date: 09/18/19 10:51:30 Ver: 05.0000D
Browser I use: Google Chrome
