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This should stop happening though once the drive has relaxed and usage is normal.Ī screen only freeze. As soon as I swapped out the cooling system it stopped freezing and I was able to use it for six years straight and never got a freeze again.Īnother type of freeze I dealt with before is a hdd at 100% load. The temperature spike would happen so fast that it wouldn't display in metrics overlay. It was my old FX 9590 that had an issue with cooling system all along. Whenever it felt like being a pest, really. Then freeze at desktop or maybe during boot. I used a pc that froze before and it was overheating. On the rare occasion a game causes a freeze up, once again, a hard reset fixes it. It also only STRICTLY happens with Avast. My PC can and does become slow for example when Windows Updates or Steam is downloading something (my OS is on an HDD, not SSD), but certainly never unresponsive or breaking the desktop and windows explorer. And while yes, Avast is pretty garbage as far as antivirus is concerned, the free version never gave me these problems (probably cause it didn't have to update all the shields that are limited to the Premium version). I've had games freeze my PC, requiring either a hard restart or if I'm able to access the desktop or task manager, I either restart the PC or kill the offending program. I mean, freezes can happen, especially due to software. Usually a cpu will do this if it's unstable (I'm looking at you AMD FX). On another note I feel like it's not Avast causing the freeze.

I'm not sure why you would have that garbage installed.

Originally posted by Hardware Hero™:I have to agree with the others.
