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Random hang/lock/freezing (sort of)
I have read a thread or five via a Google search about random freezing with Windows 10, but none of their symptoms match mine, so I thought I'd post a new thread.
I'm getting random system freezes or hangs which prevent me from opening apps or programs and clicking on the task bar (or even getting it to come out of auto-hide). When it's happened before, I've left the system alone for a while but it never recovers.
If it is of any consequence, things go a bit quieter when this happens and the normal noise that I assume is from the hard drive stops. There's no clicking or anything alarming either before or after the freeze.
When it hangs, what I can still do is:
- Move the mouse
- Move already open windows around, snap to full screen or to the side
- Get the right click menu on the desktop, although it appears verrrrry slowly and nothing can be clicked on it when it appears
- Ctrl-alt-delete and the regular screen pops up
- Open the task manager and the subsequent performance tab which shows no movement across all the graphs
The only thing left to do is a hard restart as, even though the ctrl-alt-del screen still comes up, when I restart via this, it just loops forever with 'Restarting' on the screen.
What I did to get to where I am:
- Installed the Windows 10 upgrade from 8.1 via the Microsoft Win10 media creation tool
- Used the media creation tool to burn a USB stick .iso
- Downloaded and ran a program (Lollipop key finder or something) to find my new Win10 key
- Clean install from my .iso and my new Win 10 key
- Experienced the problem very often (every 15 minutes or so) with a completely fresh install
- Thought it might be hard drive related, so I re-seated my hard drive connectors on my motherboard
- Did a RAM diagnostic, no problems
- Defragmented HDD
- Problem is still present but only every couple of hours now. Nothing specific appears to trigger it, but at least I've been able to install the programs that I regularly use.
I've also done the recommended steps in this thread, to no avail. Disk health is good, no store corruption detected/obvious errors/noises. I even gave things a monthly blast with compressed air whilst re-seating the hard drives but now I'm at a loss.
Any ideas would be appreciated.