My PC constantly freezes if I'm not playing a game or have a game running.
✅ If I'm playing a game, it's fine.
✅ If I have a game running in the background while doing other stuff, it's fine.
❌ If I leave my PC while playing a game and the lock screen pops up, it will freeze.
❌ If I do anything other than gaming, such as browsing the web or digital art, PC will freeze.
❌ If PC goes to sleep overnight, it will freeze.
The frozen PC will typically show no error code and display will show "no input" until I hard reset.
If I hard reset, it often won't successfully turn back on unless I move the mouse while it's resetting, otherwise it will freeze again on the windows loading screen.
Sometimes I will actually get a blue screen with the error code of DPC_Watchdog_Error or something like that.
Anyone know where I should look first to try and fix this? It's been happening for weeks now and it's driving me crazy. I can't figure it out.
Please provide your full system and OS config information:
Since you've gotten a BSOD, you should have a MEMORY.DMP at
C:\Windows\. Copy this to your downloads directory, Grab Windbg from the store, load the kernel DMP file to see what actually happened. This should point you to the faulting object.We could also take a look at event viewer. I'd be interested if you have any WHEA errors listed there.
I'll see if I can't access it, I'm not terribly tech savvy just enough to plug PC components together and it doesn't blow up.
My PC setup is Windows 10 Home Ryzen 9 5900x CPU Asus rog strix b550 MB Corsair vengeance RAM 8GB X4 RTX 3080 GPU updated drivers Asus rog strix 850w PSU Not sure about ReBAR? Asus 32" monitor, 1080x1920, 120hz, HDMI
I don't suppose you could check event viewer? in particular, applications and services logs > microsoft > windows > kernel-WHEA > errors
Can help with the kernel dmp if you're in a pinch