Desktop freezing up after being idle for a short time

[gddrummerboy]

Hello,

My self built desktop has been having a weird issue where it freezes up whenever I spend too long idle on the desktop or on a pause screen in any game. It only started happening a few days ago but it is driving me crazy. It freezes up anywhere between 10 minutes and 15 seconds after i stop doing stuff. When it freezes up it's completely unresponsive (Num lock won't even turn off). I am completely confused to whether it's a software or hardware issue. Temps are only around 30C. I upgraded to windows 10 a few months ago but only started having issues around January 2nd.

My Specs:

AMD FX 6350
Kingston 120gb ssd
Seagate Barracuda 1 TB HDD
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
Gigabyte R9 280X GDDR5-3GB
Corsair Builder Series CX 600 Watt
Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB Kit (2x4GB) 1333MHz DDR3 CL9 DIMM

What I've tried:
memtest86
Malwarebytes
Updating graphics drivers
played with the power settings

Any help/suggestions would be great, I've looked at the other threads and they seem to be similar issues but not the same.

 

[Laptop_Nerd]

Hi,

Please do try changing some power option of your laptop that may do the trick.
- Open Power Option and click on Change plan settings then Change advanced power settings.
- Expand Hard disk then Turn off hard disk after and set it to Never.
- Expand Allow hybrid sleep and set it to Never, set Hibernate after to Never as well.
- On Power Option main menu, on the left pane click on Change what the power buttons do.
- Once open under Shutdown settings remove the check on Turn on fast startup then click Save changes.
- Also do disable the screen saver mode of your PC when it idles.

 

[gddrummerboy]

I tried all of it and got no luck . Anything else you can think of to diagnose what the problem is? My RAM sticks are the only things I can think of that could be it based on the specific way it crashes. It passed memtest86 though so I guess it's not that.

 

[KineticFrost]

I tried all of it and got no luck . Anything else you can think of to diagnose what the problem is? My RAM sticks are the only things I can think of that could be it based on the specific way it crashes. It passed memtest86 though so I guess it's not that.

I have the same problem with my Asus AMD A10 with windows 10 pre-installed. Sometimes clicking on the toolbar at the bottom will refresh the screen. Other times no response and ctrl alt delete doesn't work in win10. Then I tried pressing the windows key and that worked. It refreshed my desktop and everything worked again. I still have to isolate what's causing this but it got me out of the lock up.