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Windows 10 freezes
So I know this has been posted about quite a few times, but I've been reading through them and trying to solve this problem for months now, and still cannot solve this.
My computer started randomly freezing soon after upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 8 with the free upgrade. Initially when it froze, the mouse and keyboard would become unresponsive, everything on the screen would freeze, and the audio would make a buzzing sound.
I purchased a fresh copy of Windows 10, and did a fresh install on the hard drive, still had the same problem. Next, since I have 2 identical computers, same everything, down to mouse and keyboard, I swapped hard drives. The computer which was causing trouble worked fine with the other hard drive, but the second computer I put my trouble causing hard drive into began having the same problems. So I switched all peripherals, mouse, keyboard, wifi adapter, monitor, hdmi cable, and bought a new hard drive, and did a fresh install of Windows 10. Still, basically the same problem. The only thing that's changed is that now the audio does not make any noise when the computer freezes up.
I'm at a total loss. Since there is literally nothing left of the original computer that was causing problems, I assumed it must be a driver problem, but as far as I can tell, the computer that works has all the same drivers as the computer that keeps freezing. There seems to be nothing in event viewer, no minidump files generated (I did configure computer to generate them) and CPU and GPU stress tests do not cause failures, though the freezing is more frequent when play games or videos, but not exclusive to playing games or videos. Anybody have any ideas?