Whole PC freezes when rendering in Premiere Pro CC 2023

[le s]

 Hi people.
 So, this happened to me ALL DAY. I try like 10 times rendering changing certain aspects or just trying for the sake of doing it: nothing. It freezes up in the middle. I also tried giving it some time to defreeze and continue its process: again, nothing.

 It doesn't show up a problem sign or anything similar, it just freezes and then I have to hard reboot.

It also happens sometimes when I'm editing too. I have to close the program every 10 minutes to make sure it doesn't freeze the whole PC. I can't even open the task manager to close it from there.   I'm rendering at 1080p 60fps. Don't know what type of details you guys need to give me a hand.

 Thank you!

[R Neil Haugen]

Is this on several projects or only one?

[le s]

Only one

[Ann Bens]

Only one

By @le s

Make new project and import old one.

Dump Media Cache.

[le s]

Thank you for your response. Even though it just went back to normal out of nowhere, I appreciate your help!

[Christian.Z]

Please provide detailed specs of your system, including your storage configuration as well as your OS and version of Premiere

[le s]

Thank you for your response to this. It fixed itself lol but appreciate the help!

[Peru Bob]

There was probably something working in the background stealing CPU and/or RAM.