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Which part of my PC is failing? (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/techsupport

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Lately my PC has been freezing sporadically. Not freezing completely, as I can still move my mouse, videos or music continue playing and window animations still function, but whenever I try to open a new page or folder it doesn't do anything. Sometimes it last for 5 seconds, sometimes for 5 minutes. Then all the actions I tried to do while frozen suddenly happen all at once. It even happens when trying to boot sometimes.

I checked my SSD SMART and it's fine, I performed a RAM health check and it's fine. I don't know how to check if it's my CPU, so it could be that. What can I do?

My specs:

CPU: Ryzen 7 1800X
GPU: GTX 1070
RAM: 2x8GB 2133MHz
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 1TB
OS: Windows 11 Education

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[–] StringPotatoTheory 1 points 1 year ago

try having task manager open during a freeze, maybe there's something that spikes the usage for a while?

are there any interesting errors in windows event viewer?

when's the last time you ran a full virus check + Malwarebytes?

you could also try partitioning a drive and installing windows fresh on that, see if it still happens (if the new installation runs fine, you can remove the partition and do a fresh install)