Last week, I opened up the default Firefox installation in Mint and imported bookmarks and passwords from Brave. But I’m not sure it’s a hardware problem. The ‘fix’ for this was to tweak C-states, which I did, with no effect.įurther BIOS upgrades for my mobo are not recommended by AsRock for AMD Raven Ridge processors (what I have). I initially searched for hardware bugs and found that Windows on Haswell processors were suceptible to a low current bug at idle. After the APU/memory upgrade, I maintained a mostly stable system.Īround 6 months ago (after the APU/memory upgrade and the switch to Brave), my computer started behaving the same as my original configuration … namely, Youtube freezing the computer randomly, and the frequency has gotten steadily worse (operating times as short as 30 minutes before hard reset is required). By a combination of BIOS and kernel upgrades I eventually achieved some stability. When I built the computer (roughly 3 years ago) I immediately started having the video instability that the Ryzen APU’s became famous for. My computer is a self-built Ryzen 5 3400G (an upgrade from a Ryzen 5 2400G w/ 8G of memory)) on an AsRock x370 Killer SLI/ac, with 16G of QVL memory for Raven Ridge processors … no graphics card (hence the Ryzen APU, I’m not a gamer). I had previously used Pale Moon because I couldn’t get Brave to function well on Ubuntu 16.04, but upon upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 I installed and started using Brave browser.

Once the sound stops, nothing will accept input. Most of the other problems I’ve seen have the video freezing while sound continues, then closing Brave my problem is the opposite … the sound stops, the video continues for a few seconds, then a hard reset. The behavior is not like many of the other like problems with Youtube as once the video freezes, the mouse will move for a bit but neither the mouse nor the keyboard will accept inputs before the screen eventually goes blank, requiring a hard reset. 88 (Official Build) (64-bit)) and I’m running Linux Mint 20.04 (previously Ubuntu 18.04). My usual (and favorite) browser is Brave (currently installed Version 1.17.75 Chromium. I’ve been having persistent problems with my computer freezing while watching Youtube videos. TL DR - Watching Youtube videos on Brave browser freezes my computer.

Pale moon browser freezes