Windows 10: PC 'Crashes' - Still Hear Sound and Move Mouse Until Fully Crashes

Hello, Sorry if this is the wrong area for some help on this issue. My system spec I have just added to my profile. My problem tends to occur quite often whenever I leave my PC afk or even just playing low performance games/browsing (youtube) and such. So I know it is nothing solely to do with playing taxing games. It doesn't happen THAT frequently that it bothers me but sometimes it can happen a few times in one day then not happen for a while. If you want me to post any more information then just let me know. I would greatly appreciate any help on this matter. Best way I can explain this so you know how much of my PC is still running until it fully crashes is through a scenario here. Playing a low spec game with a friend, talking through Discord. I know when my PC crashes as all my RGB lights freeze up and I lose the sound in my game first, and shortly the game will crash or anything moving on screen will freeze. After that I can still hear my friend talking to me through Discord, this could be up to a good few minutes. I can still move my mouse and alt tab, cant view the Desktop. I can control alt delete to get my task manager up but it doesn't let me end anything. That is about it, usually then it all grinds to a halt and each time I have to hard power off my PC. Doesn't let me turn off PC the proper way either. ---- Or if I have say Radio 1 playing, that would continue to play as well until it fully crashes.

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PC 'Crashes' - Still Hear Sound and Move Mouse Until Fully Crashes

Reliability History never shows anything other than a critical error for an unexpected shutdown, I am guessing due to me hard powering it down. I will post a pic to show you that is all I get. Nothing before or after in the log. That the day it happened 3 times, I had a couple afk sessions. I wasn't even playing any games.





I checked dxdiag and no notes/problems found. I checked on display for my version and just want to make sure is this what you mean before I do anything else. Where do I even find that version again to reinstall it? The date is nearly a year old, has it not been updating or something? My driver files seem to think they are up to date.





DDU, where is the correct place for this software?

 

PC 'Crashes' - Still Hear Sound and Move Mouse Until Fully Crashes

Hello,

Sorry if this is the wrong area for some help on this issue. My system spec I have just added to my profile.

My problem tends to occur quite often whenever I leave my PC afk or even just playing low performance games/browsing (youtube) and such. So I know it is nothing solely to do with playing taxing games. It doesn't happen THAT frequently that it bothers me but sometimes it can happen a few times in one day then not happen for a while. If you want me to post any more information then just let me know. I would greatly appreciate any help on this matter.

Best way I can explain this so you know how much of my PC is still running until it fully crashes is through a scenario here.

Playing a low spec game with a friend, talking through Discord. I know when my PC crashes as all my RGB lights freeze up and I lose the sound in my game first, and shortly the game will crash or anything moving on screen will freeze. After that I can still hear my friend talking to me through Discord, this could be up to a good few minutes. I can still move my mouse and alt tab, cant view the Desktop. I can control alt delete to get my task manager up but it doesn't let me end anything. That is about it, usually then it all grinds to a halt and each time I have to hard power off my PC. Doesn't let me turn off PC the proper way either. ---- Or if I have say Radio 1 playing, that would continue to play as well until it fully crashes.

 

all games crash!

I suggest you run rthdribl > http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/archives/rthdribl_1_2.zip
Increase the window size step by step and watch your vga temps permanently.
What happens?
If it crashes, run at stock speeds as suggested before and retry.

P.S.: When your system locks, does the display signal turn off after a time?
Stuttering sound or no sound at all when freezing?
What X1800XT model do you own exactly?