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Random system freezes for weeks
Since some time now I am getting system freezes where the only option is a hard reset of the system.
It happens very randomly,
- in office 365,
- gaming,
- watching movies,
- browsing the internet,
- etc.
When it happens the sound stops with the mouse & keyboard, I literally cannot do anything when it happens.
I am currently on my 2nd recent clean installation, though in the first I rushed through installing software because I forgot that I shouldn't do that.
What has been done:
- I've booted in safe mode today while away at school, when I returned I could easily do anything making me believe this problem is not a hardware problem,
- Driver verifier seemed to make things more stable, at least it looked like that, and did not catch anything for as long as I could've let it run (which isn't really long),
- There is no overheating, the temperatures don't reach 40C,
- I've removed the secondary HDD, I read that this could cause problems, unfortunately it had no effect,
- The cables have been reseated and reconnected,
- The memory has been reseated and moved to different slots, diagnostics tests do not show problems,
- Malware/virus scans do not reveal any problem,
- All drivers have been reinstalled, currently I am using some Windows Update drivers,
- SSD firmware was up to date shipped,
- Chkdsk, SeaTools and HDTune do not show any sign of problems,
- Fast startup I do not use,
- Security programs, BitDefender & Malwarebytes, have been removed but did not change anything
- Steam had been removed, I saw event logs of Malwarebytes & Steam having some problems, had also no effect,
- DISM & SFC return no errors,
- Event logs & msinfo32 do not give any useful data
- CPU has been tested with the Intel Processor Diagnostics Tool, no problems,
- Resetted the BIOS to optimal default settings, not that it changed anything but just in case.
There are likely things I did but not added to the list, it are just so many things.
Unfortunately I cannot give more details about the problem, there is no single sign of what it possibly could be causing this problem and it has happened in very many moments.
I could not catch the CPU, memory & Disk activity in the task manager, that is about to change currently.
At the moment I do not have any software installed, I have only removed programs from the app store that I could remove.
Does anyone have suggestions for me that I could try to get rid of these annoying freezes?
Last edited by axe0; 29 Jun 2016 at 02:18. Reason: More typos