Computer freezing and a looping sound

[4gony]

I have had this problem for a long time already and it started with League of Legends it started around 6 months ago and would be infrequent and my computer would recover from freezing for a moment but other times it would keep freezing play a machinegun sounding sound (like it is looping a really tiny fragment of sound really fast. Since 3 weeks this problem has spread to other games which never had teh problems before like skyrim and Dota 2. I have recently found out that my computer actually is making a report of this happening so I screen shotted it.

http/imgur.com/OahI37s/

Could anybody help me fix or at least identify this problem. Thank you.

 

[Prostar Computer]

It could be any number of things; software conflict, faulty RAM, faulty/failing hard drive, possible overheating... Do you run into this problem when doing anything else for an extended amount of time? Especially anything fairly demanding on the computer.

 

[4gony]

Well it started with League of Legends even when running at the lowest settings, then it spread to a host of other games which are moderately demanding like skyrim. I can play things like FTL (a not very demanding game) with no issues.

I have more or less ruled out my hard drive by playing the games on an external HD and the issue still appeared.

The issue appears after 5 minutes or after 50 it doesnt really matter, it can even not happen at all for 1 - 2 games straight.

 

[Prostar Computer]

More likely a failing GPU, but since you didn't mention your laptop make and model nor hardware specs, I don't know if you have a dedicated chip or if it's an iGPU. Either way, what you describe sounds like a failing component, and if it's only reproducible in medium + gaming, it is likely your graphics chip is dying.

You can try reloading/updating the drivers for it, if applicable.