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Discus and support My PC sometimes randomly freezes completely often during gaming. I am forced to shut it off... in Windows 10 Gaming to solve the problem; I have tried everyting, updating my drivers, checking BIOS, followed tons of YouTube videos and i´ve given up many times and just lived with it for... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Gaming' started by Alfred joe_handsome, Dec 19, 2024 at 8:07 PM.

  1. My PC sometimes randomly freezes completely often during gaming. I am forced to shut it off...


    I have tried everyting, updating my drivers, checking BIOS, followed tons of YouTube videos and i´ve given up many times and just lived with it for like 3 years... I´m turning here in hope that someone can help me debunk this.The computer most often freezes during gaming sessions, most often in online games, which is very annoying. Online games like Rainbow six siege or overwatch 2, , but sometimes in single player games like Cyberpunk 2077, minecraft or Skyrim. It just does it when it feels like it. Funny it happned while writing thisWhen it freezes all RGB lights in my computer also stop t

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    Alfred joe_handsome, Dec 19, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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  2. Computer freezes randomly

    So I dont remember when this started but my computer freezes randomly while browsing internet and playing games and I need to force to shut down. when it freezes my screen will completely freeze and it looks like an image, I have done memory check and
    sfc /scannow and it says there is no problem and I reset my whole computer too and it didn't help either so i dont know whats the problem help pls
     
  3. HP Pavilion 15 randomly shuts down incorrectly if fast startup enabled

    I've just updated an HP Pavilion 15 from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 (Home 64 bit). If fast startup is enabled, the laptop freezes at the very least step of the shutting down process. The shutting down process goes like this:

    1. First you click on shut down
    2. The shut down screen appears
    3. The screen turns off and then the fan starts to spin at high speed
    4. After 4-5 seconds, the fan stops
    5. The laptop is completely turned off, no lights are turned on (in most of PC's)

    Well, my problem is that randomly, the Pavilion 15 freezes after step 4 has been completed, with the light of the ON/OFF button turned on forever. Sometimes it turns off correctly, but many other times this happens. If I disable the fast startup, this won't happen and it will always turn off correctly.

    What can I do?
    How is it that it's random?

    I've tested this with no apps running on background, so that can't be the reason, besides, no apps or programs can freeze the system after the step 4 has been completed, since they are all shut down after step 1.

    Also, the fast startup option was activated when I was using Windows 8.1 and never had a single problem with this laptop.
     
  4. Madpoli Win User

    My PC sometimes randomly freezes completely often during gaming. I am forced to shut it off...

    PC freezes while shutting down/restarting, have to force shut down

    Basically after just a few seconds of shutting down/restarting the PC just completely freezes with the spinning circle stopping and it never shuts down until I force shut down. This has been happening for a few days now. I have tried to look up solutions myself but every video I've seen on the issue the spinning circle keeps going rather than freezing so I think my problem might be different. I tried basic stuff like sfc /scannow, chkdsk /f, dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth, and also in gpedit I enabled the highly detailed status messages but the only text that shows before it freezes is shutting down/restarting so I can't figure out where it's having problems shutting down. Looked in the event viewer as well even after waiting over a half hour at the frozen screen but I can't see anything obvious that sticks out, in both the application and system sections. However in safe mode I'm able to shut down/restart normally, so perhaps it could point to a software issue? UPDATE: I also asked this question on reddit and someone suggested that it could be a BIOS update that I recently installed because he has seen several HP PCs that had the problem with failed shutdowns. I don't know how I can go about reverting the update or perhaps I can factory reset BIOS? I tried to recover the BIOS with Win + B and holding the power button for 2-3 seconds like it says to do for HP and although it said it recovered the BIOS, it didn't revert the version back to default so I'm still having this issue. No guarantees it would solve the issue but I think it's likely, any suggestions?
     
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