Random Color Freezes on Screens? Here Are Some Useful Fixes!

If your Win10 system freezes with solid random color on monitor, it can be a bothersome issue since it can interrupt your work and study. No worries. In this article, I outline some useful solutions to fix the issue. You can try them one by one to fix troubleshoot the issue on your PC.

Solution 1. Reseat GPU and RAM

On Windows, when the screen goes to a random Color then freezes, you can suspect whether there are issues with the GPU or RAM installation. Therefore, you can try shutting down your PC and reseating the GPU and RAM to fix the issue. If it doesn’t work, continue and try other solutions.

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Solution 2. Run SFC and Check Disk

If reseating the GPU and RAM does not solve the “screen goes to a random Color then freezes” issue, you can run SFC and check the disk to fix the issue as well. Here’s the way:

Step 1. Press the Win + S keys at the same time to open the Search window.

Step 2. Type “cmd” in the search box, right-click Command Prompt, and select Run as administrator.

Step 3. In the elevated Command Prompt window, type “sfc /scannow” and press Enter.

After that, restart your computer and check if the “Win10 system freezes with solid random color on monitor” has been resolved. If not, you can continue and use MiniTool Partition Wizard’s Check File System and Surface Test features to check the disk for errors and scan bad sectors.

Besides, this partition disk manager can also help you partition hard drive, create partitions, extend partitions, convert MBR to GPT, rebuild MBR, perform HDD/external hard drive/SD card/ SSD data recovery, etc.

Here’s how to use Check File System and Surface Test features:

Step 1. Download and install MiniTool Partition Wizard on your computer. Then, launch it to enter its main interface.

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Step 2. Choose the C drive from the disk map, and select Check File System from the left panel.

Step 3. Choose Check & fix detected errors and click Start.

Step 4. Next, click Yes in the Question window, and restart your PC.

Step 5. Once your PC is booting, the scanning will start. When it is done, launch MiniTool Partition Wizard again.

Step 6. Choose C drive again, select Surface Test from the left panel, and then click Start Now from the pop-up window.

Step 7. Once done, bad sectors will show with red color.

If the Surface Test feature find some bad sectors on your drive, you can run Command Prompt as an administrator and execute the “chkdsk /f /r /x” command to scan and repair those.

Solution 3. Update Graphics Card Driver

An outdated graphics card driver may also cause the “Win10 system freezes with solid random color on monitor” issue. In this case, you can try updating the graphics card driver to fix the issue. Here’s the guide:

1. Press the Win + X keys simultaneously to open the Quick Link menu.
2. Select Device Manager from the menu.
3. Expand the Display adapters category.
4. Right-click the graphics driver and select Update driver.
5. Click Search automatically for drivers.
6. Then, follow the on-screen guide to complete the process.
7. Once done, check if the issue has been resolved.

Solution 4. Roll Back Graphic Driver Version

If you encounter the “random color freezes on screens” issue, you can try rolling back the graphics driver version to fix the issue. To do that, you just need to do the following steps:

1. Open the Device Manager window.
2. Expand the Display adapters category.
3. Double-click the graphics card driver to enter its properties window.
4. Go to the Driver tab.
5. Then, click Roll Back Driver.
6. Once done, check if the issue is fixed.

Solution 5. Update BIOS

Some people report that they fixed the issue successfully by updating BIOS. You can also have a try. But note that updating BIOS has the risk of making your computer brick, you’d better clone your whole disk and data to another safe location to avoid data loss. To do that, you can use MiniTool Partition Wizard’s Copy Disk feature.

If you haven’t cloned your disk or backed up it before updating the BIOS, you can use MiniTool Partition Wizard’s Data Recovery feature to recover the lost files.

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Solution 6. Other Ways You Can Try

If none of the above solutions can help you fix the “random color freezes on screens” issue, you can try the following ways as well. Some people use these ways to fix the issue successfully.

• Perform a clean boot in Safe Mode
• Clean the computer’s dust
• Check the error code in Event Viewer
• Stop overclocking

In Conclusion

Well, this is the end of the post. It offers several useful ways to fix the “random color freezes on screens” issue. If you experience the same issue, you can try these ways one by one until you fix it successfully. Hope this post is helpful for you.