Windows 10: System Freeze

Hi there,


so this is a problem i thought had been fixed but has popped back up again.


In late February - right after an Nvidia driver release - i started to get system freezes, as in mouse not moving, nothing responding, hard restart needed, however it only ever happened in a very specific situation. Namely, i use 3 monitors for work architecture but then switch that back to one monitor for gaming. The system freeze only ever occured right after i turned the second and third monitors off.

The freezes then got progressively worse / seemingly more random, until the machine wouldnt even boot to windows. I unplugged the main monitor from the graphics card MSI 1080Ti and into the mobo, system back up, and then on advice from the Nvidia forum, rolled back to an older driver using DDU in safe mode.

Everything has been running smoothly since then 3rd of April and then tonight, right as i was finishing up work and turning off the extra monitors BAM - another system freeze.

Since the first round of problems i had installed whocrashed and got back the following message:

[COLOR=rgba17, 17, 17, 1]The following dump files were found but could not be read. These files may be corrupted:
C:\WINDOWS\LiveKernelReports\PoW32kWatchdog-20210421-2243.dmp[/COLOR]


ive run chkdsk, sfc /scannow and the windows memory diagnostic tool, all came back clean.
Is there anything else i can do here short of the nuclear option?

note: one theory i have is the power settings for the graphics card. I have this set to adaptive, and the freezes all seem to occur when the card is "powering down" or moving from a state of higher workload 3 monitors, gaming to lower workload 1 screen, in the 20-30 second window after gaming. Im going to try switching this over from adaptive to performance so that it maintains power and see if it crashes again

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:)

 

Windows 10 Computer Randomly Freezes

Hi,

Listed below are some possibilities why the computer keeps on freezing:

• Outdated drivers.
• Virus and malware.
• Corrupted system files.

We suggest performing the steps on this article that can help resolve the issue.

Get back to us if you have other concerns.

 

all games crash!

ive watch my temps and both the cpu and gpu are within normal ranges. when it freezes it simply freezes the image and stops the sound. i must reboot to get back to windows.

 

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?