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Freezing (NOT BSOD), network isues, and potentail driver problems
Winver 21H2 OS Build 19044,1889.
The most recent update was KB5016616, corresponding security updates, and KB5015807 cumulative. [FYI, my minidump folder is empty].
Something updated earlier this week, and since then I cannot operate my computer for longer than about 5-10 minutes without it freezing to a point where I must restart. I can't uninstall any updates, update drivers, or do security scans (see below for everything I've done so far).
Before that, I was having trouble with my network hard wire connection not connecting but after a lot of fiddling, I got it to work intermittently. Wireless works fine. **
I had a few Intel driver updates that tried to run, but the computer freezes before they can run.
I am able to run some things, like I attempted to do non-intel driver updates (my CCLeaner said that I had some out of date) but my computer freezes before any of them can be downloaded. I checked all of my drivers in the device menu, and there weren't any that had the little alert on them.
Here are the things I've done so far
- Power cycled
- chkdsk (froze at 68%)
- SFC /scannow (on regular and safe mode - in both situations froze at 60-80%)
- I've tried to uninstall updates in regular and safe mode (froze at 10%)
- I've tried to install any missing drivers, but as far as I could tell from the devices menu, there weren't any that were bad. Even if I did find some, they wouldn't download fast enough before the computer froze.
- DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth (In regular and safe mode). Made it through on safe mode, froze on regular mode.
**I suspect this is a driver issue, but I'm unable to download any drivers due to the freezing.
Is my only option at this point to do a reinstall of windows, or is there some magic thing I can do to get all of my drivers updated? Are there any quality driver updaters that are free? All the ones I've found cost. Thanks in advance for your help!