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.
See if just opening the task manager and leaving it open also keeps the pc from freezing. If so - that points towards a malware.
Additionally you can set up a monitoring software to get the load readouts on your phone and see if maybe something weird is going on when the pc should be idle (like 100% cpu load or disk usage). Pitikapp + hwinfo is a free combination for such setup.
Does the keyboard numlock button change state when the pc is frozen (led turning on and off when you press it)?