Lately my PC has been freezing sporadically. Not freezing completely, as I can still move my mouse, videos or music continue playing and window animations still function, but whenever I try to open a new page or folder it doesn’t do anything. Sometimes it last for 5 seconds, sometimes for 5 minutes. Then all the actions I tried to do while frozen suddenly happen all at once. It even happens when trying to boot sometimes.
I checked my SSD SMART and it’s fine, I performed a RAM health check and it’s fine. I don’t know how to check if it’s my CPU, so it could be that. What can I do?
My specs:
- CPU: Ryzen 7 1800X
- GPU: GTX 1070
- RAM: 2x8GB 2133MHz
- SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 1TB
- OS: Windows 11 Education
When it happens again open the task manager (might take a while), go to performance and look at your SSD. Is it at 100% disk usage?
I had this problem a few times before and it’s annoying as hell. One time it was a Windows Store hiccup where it started to update in the background. One time Windows update. One time Nvidia Broadcast got stuck installing. And a lot of times I tried to play Apex Legends and EAC (Easy AntiCheat) scanned my entire drive for a few minutes…
I’ve tried a ton of tweaks, but start with the following (use CMD as Admin):
sfc /scannow→ Scans for errors, will probably find some and fix them. Run again till no errors come upchkdsk /f /r C:→ Full SSD scan for broken sectors. Will probably ask you to restart, the scan happens after restarting. This fixed a ton of issues with my Windows 11 installation, even though the SSD tests and SMART showed no issues