red VGA light on motherboard and chrome freezes (new pc)
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Built a new pc last week, and I’ve been having these two problems since. Everything else seems to be working fine.
I would have two chrome windows open, one playing a youtube video and another either general browsing or going through google sheets. Then all of a sudden, the display freezes and the audio from the video follows suit. This happens for a couple seconds, until it goes back to normal (until it happens again). At first I thought it was my monitor, but I could open task manager and other apps, so I think it’s safe to say it’s Chrome that’s freezing. This last happened a couple days ago and I haven’t experienced it since.
More recently, I’ve noticed that there’s a red light that comes on on my motherboard (Gigabyte B650 GAMING X AX V2) as well. I looked at the manual, and it seems to be the VGA light. It lights up after my pc is turned on, which I found out was normal because it disappears after a while and my display is fine. But I also noticed the light turning on when my monitor falls asleep and I wake it back up. It’s currently at that state right now, and I’m not sure what I can do to stop it from happening.
I’m aware both issues can be related to my GPU (5070), but why is this happening and what can I do?