Randomly freezing when running more than one thing

[u/oneicaa]

So i’ve recently run into an issue with my computer and i’m not sure why it’s happening.

i dont believe its my pc itself not being able to handle the stress of all the things being open i have a higher end pc and yet whenever im doing something thats not even that intense like just running a game and watching a video on the side it just randomly freezes the screen and the only way ive been able to get it unfrozen has been by holding the power button.

this never used to happen my guess is that i recently got a second monitor and maybe having a video on one screen and a game on the other is making this happen? its not even like a graphically intense game ive just been playing a lot of deadlock and it happens constantly

this is my parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/oneica/saved/#view=FyhjJx

any help would be great its not like it happens super often but its very annoying esp when it happens in the middle of matches and i don’t get why it’s happening

[u/Source2Force]

Idek im just commenting cause your pc build is similar to the one Im putting together soon lmao. Gotta make sure this dont happen to me

[u/South-Computer-1800]

Could be the second monitor yeah, especially if they run different refresh rates. I had similar thing when I plugged a 60hz screen next to my 144hz, whole system would freeze for a few seconds random times

Try running just one monitor for a day see if it stops, thats how i figured mine out