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Random freezes
Couple of days ago I started experiencing random buzzing sound (on speakers connected through 3.5 mm standard pin) and a freeze that lasted for a fraction of second. To solve this trouble, yesterday, I updated my graphics card driver using the Geforce experience panel. I checked for windows update and there was nothing to be updated.
The driver installed was:
GeForce Game Ready Driver – WHQL Version: 397.31 - Release Date: Wed Apr 25, 2018
It made matters worse, my computer started freezing totally. I waited for 10-15 minutes and deep pressed the power button of the CPU to immediately close my PC. Using latest version of DDU graphics driver uninstaller in safe mode, I uninstalled NVIDIA driver.
Hoping an earlier version of this driver would resolve the trouble, installed the driver of following version by downloading from NVIDIA’s official website.
GeForce Game Ready Driver - WHQL
Version: 391.01 - Release Date: Mon Feb 26, 2018
It didn’t change anything. My computer still experiences freezes all of a sudden regardless of whether I’m surfing the internet, working on a spreadsheet or doing some graphics work in Adobe InDesign. I do not have any computer games installed. Neither I installed any new software recently or did any hardware upgrade. The last hardware upgrade I did was in January 2018 when I bought a new 1TB WD hard drive because my last hard drive became non-functional.
Last time I updated windows was probably two weeks ago. Upon checking for the updates, it showed that my windows had all the updates installed.
What should I do to resolve this issue of random computer freezes?
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