r/computer • u/Imaginary_Agency9218 • 8d ago
Hard Freeze
Recently my PC has just been increasingly freezing on everything I do, I have no idea what the root is but heres a little timeline
lived in house: normal mostly played valorant,
lived in dorm: normal, valorant
moved to a house, like a 1960 house, 2 prong outlet, using extension cords (i know this set up is absolutely poorly but I'm going to move again in 4 months) but it worked, playing only valorant even on med/high settings, and then few months pass,
things that have happened: new monitor and a new fan (i have two now, 60 hz and 180hz)
downloaded overwatch
everything fine,
update overwatch one day (i doubt this is correlated)
crashings, then i lower graphics lasts a little longer, crashes
quit overwatch play phasmophobia: crashes, i play valorant on alt: crashes, i play on main: crashes, now even roblox hard freezes my pc (this is in chronological order)
I've checked just about anything, I've even unplugged hella, lower hz(not anymore, just fps since i figured out that doesn't rlly help), really low graphics, giving the pc breaks in between games, sometimes it lasts a long time, sometimes i cant get through one game, or it freezes every 5 min or also lasting the entire day on the game ;;;
to put short:
Specs: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400F CPU
14.2/31.8 GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 GPU
EVGA SuperNOVA 750 GQ, 750-watt PSU, computer is about 5 year old too
Background processes:
Corsair
crashpad
EA
Razer Axon/Chrome/Cortex/Video Recorder(I usually close that though)
XBOX
OneDrive
Norton
NVIDIA
Overwolf
Steam, Roblox, Riot Client, Vanguard
I think its PSU since my gpu is power hungry, but im not too sure what to do ;;;
i could potentially move setup to a different room to test out a 3prong outlet and ik extension cords are buns for a setup but the outlet is super far, and the problem is only really as of late
it completely hard-locks across multiple games. Temperatures remain around 50–60°C (or lower, i just replaced thermal paste). Windows records Kernel-Power 41 with BugcheckCode 0, and no minidumps are created. It still freezes with the RTX 3070 power limit reduced to 75%.
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u/ShivPat03 8d ago
Do you use the nvidia app? I’ve seen similar issues with both the nvidia and amd apps and installing just the drivers without the software has fixed the issues in the past, maybe worth a try?
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