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RyanM Apr 22, 2020 @ 3:30am

PC freezing after overclocking

2 days ago I was looking into overclocking my gpu. I made sure I knew what I was doing before starting, I used msi afterburner to do it. Once I got to +80 on my clock speed my pc froze while using msi kombuster, so I had to restart my pc multiple times to get back into it. I reset all msi afterburner settings to default yet I’m still getting freezes that make me need to restart my pc. These freezes aren’t always frequent as I went the whole day yesterday without a freeze. I really hope there’s a fix for this.

Also, im trying to reinstall fortnite after doing a full system reset last night. When it gets to the verifying stage at the end of the install, my pc freezes...

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r.linder Apr 22, 2020 @ 3:52am

I would try removing Afterburner entirely and using DDU to completely clean out GPU drivers, just to remove the possibility of software-related issues with the GPU itself.

RyanM Apr 22, 2020 @ 4:03am

Originally posted by Escorve:
I would try removing Afterburner entirely and using DDU to completely clean out GPU drivers, just to remove the possibility of software-related issues with the GPU itself.

okay, ill give it a go. Thanks :)