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PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

I rebuilt my system a couple days ago, but I've noticed some odd behavior, where Windows seems to just stop responding to inputs? I can see the mouse cursor moving around on the screen, so presumably my GPU is working normally, but I can't click on anything, Control-Alt-Del does nothing, and the only thing I've been able to do is reset or power cycle it. Once I do everything goes back to running fine for hours at a time. Any guesses or advice on where to look for clues on what's going on?

Temperatures look normal, I was paranoid it was that since I recently noticed my case fans aren't turning,[e: turns out they're running fine I'm just blind] but it just happened while I was just using remote desktop to access the office, meaning neither the CPU or GPU were really doing anything, temps were both like 40C.

Windows is currently running off a brand new NVMe SSD (WD Blue SN550), though I could switch to booting off my old SSD and seeing if that changes anything I suppose.

PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Aug 17, 2021

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Scruffpuff
Dec 23, 2015

Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?
Two things to check:

- When it freezes, is the drive light on solid?
- When it freezes, can you cycle numlock/capslock on the keyboard?

PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

Hmmm well that may prove difficult to evaluate, turns out my case lacks a drive activity LED and my keyboard lacks caps and num lock LEDs :v:

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Make sure W10 is fully updated.

You may want to update to the latest motherboard BIOS if you aren't on it already.

You may want to use onboard video temporarily if you have it.


Listing your system specs may help narrow the issue down more.

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