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I did flash the BIOS with the latest update. So far so good. Best guess is that it was always the video drivers, but something also got corrupted with the OS with the freezes, so I had to both update the drivers and then do sfc/ scannow to completely fix it. Anyway, thank you all for your help!

According to CPU-Z the BIOS version is 1.B0 - AMD AGESA ComboAM4v2PI 1.1.0.0 This morning was the first time in a long time that my computer wasn't frozen up. It would have frozen by now for sure, so apparently it's fixed? Maybe I just needed to do the scannow thing after updating the video...

No, it's not overclocked. Everything is running stock speeds. I don't know what version of the BIOS I'm running, but I've never updated it. I will have to pull the stupid HDD to boot into the BIOS and check (probably tomorrow). Anyone know how you are supposed to boot into the BIOS without...

I stopped FurMark. It seemed like stressing the GPU didn't do anything. After that I walked away for a while and came back to the PC and it had obviously restarted. Looking at the event viewer I finally see something that looks interesting, or at least looks like it might be a clue I can...

On a whim, I just ran sfc/ scannow and it found corrupted files and repaired them. That's odd, because the original boot disk was fine, but had the exact same problem as this one. After doing that I've been running FurMark for over 20min and so far so good. How long should I run this BTW?

I don't have another GPU that will work on this motherboard. I do have a Ryzen 7 5800X I can run on this motherboard though. The good news is that I've been wanting to build another PC anyway, so I might as well just buy the components and then I can swap stuff out and test.

My new boot drive is having the exact same problem as the old one, so I would think that would rule it out as being corrupt? I tested the original boot drive and found nothing. I'll give the stress tests a go and see what I find.

So I actually have two of the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB drives. The original HDD that this was happening on was pulled and I reinstalled the OS on the second drive and that's what I've been running while trying to troubleshoot. I already ran repair install on the original drive as well as checkdisk...

Well, that didn't work. I used the computer for maybe an hour or so, left and got lunch and it was frozen when I got back. Not sure what to try now.

Quit memtest. Made it through 3 passes with no errors and I got impatient. Just installed the latest nvidia driver for the GPU. Now we'll wait and see...

It’s not solved yet. Still finishing up the memtest, but so far that’s clear. Assuming it finishes all clear my next thing to try is to mess around with the GPU drivers.

Running memtest now. Finished two passes with 0 errors. Default was 4 passes I believe, but so far so good on the memory. I’m also thinking GPU driver related. How am I supposed to run the PC overnight without the GPU in it and know if it freezes? My only display ports are on the GPU. When it...

I tried the windows memory test and it said everything was fine. Is that sufficient, or should I try a 3rd party test? If so, which one? The boot drive is a good idea. I'm going to try that.

It's random, but usually within an hour or two of restarting the machine after it froze the last time. I normally leave the machine running all the time. I've had times when I've been using it and suddenly it just freezes (ie just web browsing). I've had times when I've walked away from the...

I built my PC over a year ago and it has run flawlessly until about a month ago when I started getting random freezes. The screen just completely locks up. The mouse doesn't move and the keyboard doesn't do anything. I have to press and hold the power button until it shuts off and then turn it...

I've been watching The Hookup on youtube and trying to get my own ultimate home network setup. I'd like to get Home Assistant set up on a server in my house to run all of my IoT devices. From the video it sounds like some people run it on a Raspberry Pi, but he mentions that it's more reliable...

That did seem to work. I also found that if I just turn off sleep mode for the monitors and let it go to a screen saver then it won't change the refresh rate. Seems like a bug they need to fix. Another really annoying thing is that the LG Ultragear Control Center only works with one monitor...

I have three 38GL950G's connected to an MSI RTX 3090 Suprim X through the display ports. I have them set to run at 160Hz through the Nvidia Control Panel. In the power settings I have the displays set up to turn off after 20min. If I lock the computer and wait until the screens turn off and...

It's the P2 version of the PSU. In hindsight, I don't think sleep had anything to do with it. I think it went to sleep, then some conductanaught dripped down on the CPU pins and/or socket and shorted something, which kept it from turning on again.

Thanks for believing me so I didn't waste my time with BB or an RMA lol! :D Seriously, I appreciate the help.

Well, lesson learned. It was the CPU. As soon as I installed the CPU into the socket it wouldn't start, even with the power cables for the CPU unplugged. I had used Conductanaught on the CPU and I believe some of it slowly dripped and shorted something in the CPU socket as the case sat upright...

Well, it’s not the motherboard. Took it out of the case, only had one stick of RAM in it, no cpu, no gpu, just the motherboard 24-pin connector connected to the PSU and it powered up. So, now I guess I will add it to the case, try again and then add components one at a time.

I just talked with MSI again because I forgot to ask where the battery is. The guy didn't know. LOL. He said shorting the jbat jumper would do the same thing, as well as pushing the clear cmos button on the back by all the I/O's. I've tried both and no luck. Tonight I'm pulling it out of the...

Well, seeing as how it won't be able to go out until Monday, that will give me the weekend to keep trying things.

I called MSI today and the guy I talked to thinks it's the motherboard. So, back it goes. :(

Yeah, I will definitely be disabling that once I get this fixed. Windows defaults to having it on and I just hadn't had a chance to really get everything set up the way I wanted before this happened. That being said, I'm not sure that sleep mode would cause this. I would think that resetting the...

Will do. Thanks for the help all, I appreciate it!

Yep, tested that and the PSU started fine.

Just tested the PSU and it started up fine. Plugged it back into the system and no go. I still get the same lights on the power switch and dial from the picture I posted above. Does that mean it’s likely the motherboard?

Yeah and gently prodding some of these plastic covers doesn’t give me confidence I won’t break something. Seems ridiculous not to have that in the manual. I hate to say it, but I only have so much time. Got an appointment scheduled with BB geek squad tomorrow, so I may just give it to them to...

I know right? You think that would be in there. Looking to see if I can carefully remove one of these plastic covers to find it...

Yeah, I’m not sure if it is related to sleep mode. I’m pretty sure I had it set to go into sleep mode after 30min or 1hr. It might have still been at whatever the default win10 setting is. In any case, I locked the PC when I went to bed last night, assume it went into sleep mode, and when I got...

Ok, did this part except yanking the battery. Still nothing. Where is the battery on this mobo? I don’t see one and none of the plastic covers look like they are meant to be removed? Not exactly sure what you mean by this. Bridging wires sounds dangerous. Can you elaborate a bit?

Just tried that and still nothing. Case: Phanteks P500A Motherboard: MSI X570 Godlike CPU: AMD 5800X Cooler: Liquid Freezer II 280 RAM: G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 128GB (4 x 32GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 4000 (PC4 32000) Intel XMP 2.0 Desktop Memory Model F4-4000C18D-64GTZR GPU: MSI RTX3090...

These are the only lights I get as soon as I plug in the power supply. Also, I just finished re-seating the CPU, RAM, video card, and power connections. Still nothing.

No lights turn on at all. The only lights that come on are the power button on the motherboard and the performance dial next to it. They turn on as soon as I plug the power cord into the power supply. Pressing the power switch on the case does absolutely nothing. Pressing the power button on the...

I just recently finished building a PC. Everything seemed to work fine until tonight. I had Windows 10 installed and was up and running. Last night I locked the PC and it was set to go to sleep after an hour IIRC. This evening when I tried turning it on, nothing happens. I tried moving and...