Computer comes to a halt when performing mild tasks

Have you had any bsod?
Have you viewed task manager contemporaneously with the hangs?
Have you used the Windows performance recorder during the problems?

Open administrative command prompt and type or copy and paste these commands:
1) winver (on the pop up view the windows version and build and post in the forum)
2) sfc /scannow
3) dsim /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
4) chkdsk /scan
5) msconfig (on the pop up move the dot from normal startup to selective startup, uncheck load startup items, click services tab, on lower left check hide all Microsoft services, on lower right click disable all, click apply or ok, do not reboot)
6) taskmgr (on the pop up click the startup tab, click the status column so that it sorts with enable rising to the top, right click on every enable and change to disable)
7) shutdown /r

You should now be in clean boot.
Monitor your performance. Are the boots shorter or longer. Are the shutdowns shorter or longer, Are their still hangs? Have they improved? Have they gone away?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...oot-in-windows
How to perform a Clean Boot in Windows 10 - TechNet Articles - United States (English) - TechNet Wiki



For the memory testing Memtest86+ with 8 or more runs is preferred. Sometimes it takes run in the teens to find memory problems.

Please report each in the thread:
winver
scannow
restorehealth
scan

no BSOD, everything stable. I often have HWmonitor and task manager up. As I said, when this happens, everything freezes (all the numbers on task manger and hwmontior). I have never used windows performance recorder. Looks like this is a download?

Version 1703 Build 15063.332 (this was happening before the creators update)
WRP found no integrity violations
DISM - Image version 10.0.15063.0 operation completed successfully
Chkdsk came clean, no issues
Memtest ran all night last night... i think it only hit 7 or 8 passes.. all good


Clean boot. boots a little faster, as expected, i have corsair cue software on boot which takes a second. Still same issue. When i load a program or something, the mouse is all shaky and the task manager numbers fail to update. It happens when i put in a usb device. I run this computer pretty lean, it was already on selective startup, only having corsair cue running and windows defender. once again, this is happening to me on 2 different copies of the OS..

I am actually going to leave the system completely like this (clean boot) with the exception of Corsair CUE. Everything else seems kinda unnecessary anyway.

I just did it on the WPR u cab see the huge spikes in 'computation'

Here is a link to that info:
Uploadfiles.io - info.txt


hdtune - benching while typing this, all good. no errors
Furmark - can run 7680x1440 with no issues. can move mouse fluidly etc. 85 was max gpu temp
Prime95 - am running while im typing this, no issues. cpu showing 52c fans not even spinning up

All temps in check out... one weird reading on Speedfan at 127C for AUXIN0.... same at idle or running/ AUXINT2 reads 7c... im guessing errors

I will run these stress tests longer at night, as i know some of these take time to error. However, it is 80 degrees in the room here, 12 higher than i usually keep it... so its a good environment to stress test. I'm reasonably sure none of my equipment is getting out of check in temperature, etc. I believe my drives are fine (especially as I am dual booting on two separate drives, low chance of two failures.) Same with video cards... issues with either card, low chance of both failing.

Still havent figured this one out. What i don't understand most is how i never can replicate the issue in benchmarks. This happens in games like CS:GO... the FPS wont drop or anything, it will just stop and then resume again. Same with applications. These are light tasks, not heavy tasks like benchmarking or encoding.

Tasks I can replicate
Insert usb drive (any drive, any port)
Adjust monitor refresh rate (any monitor, either video card)
Loading of corsair CUE (with or without corsair keyboard/mouse attached). Loading photoshop, for example, no has issues.

This file I was not able to open as Windows defender is displaying: info.txt is unsafe to download and was blocked by Windows Defender SmartScreen. Please use onedrive for posts.

To replicate the issue you might be able to do that by changing clean boot to normal but and rerunning the stress tests. At this point that may just be academic.
Did you view task manager or WPR at any time during the stress testing?
Have you had any more hangs since you have placed the computer in clean boot?

I do not have onedrive. Clean boot has no effect whatsoever. TGask manager was open the whole time during the testing, along with speedfan. Everything seems normal there. 100% usage on whatever i was testing, but computer still moving fluidly. Benchmarks/stress testing are the same with or without (run flawlessly) on both boot drives, and the hangs are still there and during:

insert usb drive (any drive, any port)
Adjust monitor refresh rate (any monitor, either video card)
Loading of corsair CUE

and in cs go and etc, just those are examples i can repeat easily.

I have Prime95 running, HD tune, 15 instances of memtest, furmark across 3 screens... i am typing this with no issue. I cannot replicate the issue under stress. Drawing only 550w of power from the wall doing all this. CPU tmps are 49c gpu 72c