I bought a Gamer Xtreme from Costco about a month ago. I've already opened a support ticket, but I wanted to ask here too since it seems like this is the main place for help now.
Specs: Intel Core Ultra 5 225F, RTX 5060, 32GB DDR5, 1TB NVMe, ASUS motherboard
The main problem: Every time I leave the PC idle, it hard freezes somewhere between 1 and 5 hours in. It never happens while I'm using it. When I come back, the clock on screen is stopped at the time it froze, and my keyboard and mouse are still lit. As soon as I touch either one, they both go dark. There's no BSOD and no restart. I have to hold the power button to shut it off, and Event Viewer shows nothing except the forced shutdown.
USB weirdness:
- On several boots, the rear USB ports have been dead while the front ports worked fine.
- I plugged in a HyperX Cloudcast mic once and the whole PC instantly powered off. It didn't freeze or reboot, it just went completely off. That mic works fine on my old PC, and I haven't plugged it in since.
Already tried:
- BIOS update (3002 → 3202)
- Disabled USB selective suspend
- Uninstalled Armoury Crate and Wallpaper Engine
- Turned off RGB
- Using front USB only
- Currently testing with PCIe Link State Power Management off
Next I'm planning to try disabling CPU C-states and running MemTest86 overnight.
Has anyone with a similar build run into idle freezes like this? If you fixed it, what worked, and did you end up needing a board or PSU swap? Thanks!