Windows 10: PC Randomly freezes with my screen having a weird graphic issue, but all sounds continue

Greetings, I've been using my PC for a solid year now with no issues, I usually freeze Windows updates, but until a solid 2months ago i finally decided to update windows on my PCBut until a month ago my PC started having random issues with my PC freezing and having a weird graphic issue, usally with a weird discolor, or a handful of pixels during a random colorwhilst all sounds continue to play... My mic stops picking up sound and i'm basically forced to hold down the power button and reboot > continue what i was doing. Sometimes it doesn't happen all day, and sometimes it just happens 10

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Screen freezing but sound continues

Thanks for the tip there. I've now udated the drivers for my sound card. Unfortunately it didn't help - still the occasional freeze. But that was well worth trying definitely.

So a few things I've done:

• Updated graphics card drivers
• Checked for viruses
• Put RAM in dual channel configuration (both slots 2 and 4, and 1 and 3)
• Used just one (4GB) stick of RAM at a time - both sticks
• Updated sound card drivers
• Run CCleaner
• Cleaned out any dust from inside the case

All good ideas, but none have helped unfortunately. If anyone has any other suggestions I'd be eager to hear. If not - the tips so far have been much appreciated. Thank you for those. I could look around for an old graphics card somewhere just to try out, see if that helps. I don't mind replacing that (or any other component), but just want to know which one to replace first!

 

Windows 10 freezes randomly

I had already tried turning off fast startup, to no avail.
Will look at the list you provided, thanks. Hard to do when computer freezes on the Windows loading screen though. *Biggrin

I had tried that as well... no result.

 

Screen freezing but sound continues




Looks like AsusTek have a later sound driver than the one showing in your DXDiag report