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After March 2020 Update: Power BI Desktop Randomly Freezes
Hi All,
After the March 2020 update I've found that Power BI desktop randomly freezes, sometimes for a few moments, sometimes indefinately.
I can't find any strong causes, sometimes it's after I open a new tab in chrome or open a Powerpoint presentation. Other times there doesn't seem to be a cause at all.
Sometimes I can hit 'ctrl, alt, delete', open the task manager and it will return to normal, other times it just sits there unresponsive until I 'end task' at which point I lose whatever work I've done up to that point.
I'm not running any particular computational intensive data sets and up until now I haven't had any troubles at all.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem? I'm running Windows 64bit.
Thanks,
Jake
5 Replies
- Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Funny, thing is I feel like I was running into that more on the February 2020 version than the March 2020 version. Running the March 2020 version seems to have made things better for me!! But, yes, I know what you are talking about it's just that I was experiencing that exact same thing on the February 2020 version.
- amitchandak
Super User
Anonymous ,
I think there a few challenges with new releases. I am not keeping more 1-2 pbix open at a time. CPU usage problem does hit me hard. But it is High.
Please refer, if you can see similar issues here or log a support ticket : https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/support/
Same here. That said, I've gone ahead and simply reverted to the Dec. 2019 version, which I was able to download from Microsoft's archive of previous releases (info + download links) here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-latest-update-archive#december-2019-update-2765678661
Hope that helps! I think we're all hoping to use the latest version of Power BI, just as soon as it's fully stable.
-Jude C.
