Mystery BUG, PC people, i'm in a dilemma.WTF is with these hangs?

#1

For those of you PC gamers who have spent 700+dollars on a high end video card, wtf is making your system freeze?
I’m on a windows 10, recently on 7, but there is one thing that bothers me. Its these sudden freezes.

My video card is an RX480 with ample 650Watts of PSU, lots of ram 32 Gb worth. A few SSDs, and the OS is running on an Nvme m.2 chip harddrive! CPU is not overclocked. Intel i5 7500 @3.4gz .
I might be watching a video at the time either on VLC or Chrome on youtube.
and my PSU doesn’t make a sound and every fan is running proper.
Here is a clue: The video of the desktop freezes anything that is moving (most notibly the mouse cursor). showing a visible vertical multiple frame existence. Like there is one or two visible lines of vertical multiplication of the cursor. Why is that?
Is it a video card problem? Nothing is overheating.
But suddenly during thihs moment, i need to hit both the reboot and power button to get this thing to reboot. Even sometimes, i may even need to switch the PSU off and on again.

Any clues?
Am I over reacting? Or do some uncomplicated situations give random uneventful hangups?
Like sometimes, even Windows Update makes my system crash or a new driver for the video card. So instead of warning me, it would just hang my system!

I mean does a Windows Defender update tell my computer to suddenly crash for no reason?

Respect to my PC peoples. They have answers! i know it!

@Scarface_1983 @JelouGaming @Samhain13 i need your mega powers!

i also don’t own an active copy of Windows 10.

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#2

Dont know much about that technical stuff

#3

@Sam have you have experienced hangs that you just can’t even figure out? and just kind of like leave it in the world of …blackholes? If hangs that happen 2twice a week every week for ever, you either think that maybe its a software issue and you ccan never figure it out- and you leave it in the wonderland of mysteries?

#4

wat ask @BeerWarrior66

#5

Sounds like a GPU problem

I would start first by making sure drivers are up to date and check on AMD forums for any known issues with a particular driver version against a specific Windows update. You may need to apply a hotfix if there is a known issue, or wait for one.

Second, get Furmark and run it for at least an hour and observe the behavior

I would pay close attention to overheating issues. Make sure the GPU core doesn’t go over 85C.

Third I would check (If you don’t have any other GPU) changing the GPU to another PCI-e lane.

If the problem persists, it is more than likely the GPU. If changing it from the PCI-e lane gets rid of the problem, you have a faulty mainboard that will eventually fail. This is exactly what happened to BTL’s PC.

and of course, if you are running any kind of overclocks, turn them off.

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#6

I use Adrenaline. Seems like a preferrable way to monitor the temps as it tracks in a realtime graph. would you say Furmark is more reliable?

Seems to be at a constant temp of 49C on idle and about 53 or rso while video watching. Fan speeds actually change when watching a video up to 950rpm from an idle of zero.

Good knowledge though I’ll take a look at Furmark.

#7

furmark is my go to benchmark and stress test tool

if furmark doesn’t trigger any failure, is more than likely a software problem

#8

Ive never monitor before so maybe I’ll try to see if there is some weird significant changes before my hangs.

#9

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#10

Lol! 700?

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#11

You need to record the problema.

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#12

I could just explain it. Because its not really specific. You know?
In fact it never happens during any gameplay of any type of game! It only happens either just general browsing of a website, or navigating windows explorer, while watching a video on VLC with nothing else on, or watching a video on you tube.
My assumption is that it has something to do with windows and videos and maybe the chrome while …doing stuff.
I have to say its not really CPU or GPU intensive but since there was and normally is video involved, it could be some kind of RAM issue? But i have 32 GB of ram and its DDR4. pretty fast too.

#13

to be specific it was probably 800-900CAD. do the conversion. The price isnt the problem but the specs are pretty high up there. Unless someting is up with PCi-e at x4 or x16 which is what it is running at, i don’t think the connectivity is a problem, or the bandwidth- unless it is, i don’t see how there is a way to check.

#14

I often find that on my Laptop that is a dell running also on Windows10 , would suddenly crash to a bluescreen everytime a new update happens on Windows. Could that just be a co-incidence or does this happen routinely?

#15

stop downloading videos from sketchy porn sites

#16

$700 for a GPU seems about right for high end cards, at least in the USA

https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-GeForce-Graphics-WINDFORCE-GV-N3080GAMING/dp/B098TZ3RMZ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=424ZUQW3T829&keywords=gtx+3080&qid=1663033479&sprefix=gtx+3080%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-2&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.ac578592-0362-4e0a-958c-0f2dd61d30d4

#17

Yo don’t go there…go to clear my cache!

#18

sounds like a skill issue

#19

Absolutely nothing, for 700+ it works flawlessly.

You need to upgrade your PC4 base.

#20

0/10

It makes no sense.
I know what that actually is and it doesn’t fit in this situation at all.