MY PC just started freezing all of a sudden.
I ran SCN and also reloaded a Macrium Image for window system files fron June. But is till freezes.
I am assuming at this point it must be a hardware problem. What could it be?
Primary Hard drive going bad? Not sure how to test for that. Scandisk?
I ran scandisk nothing popped up.
SSD drive
Flash drive failure modes tend to be suddenly going read-only vs. simply freezing.
Is it possible that you have bad RAM somewhere (motherboard or video card)?
Could it be a power supply or voltage issue?
Is there any particular behavior when this is happening? Are you gaming, or compiling, or doing something “intensive” (i.e. could it be heat, or a component failure, etc.)?
When it freezes, does it literally freeze, or does it BSOD, or reboot, or something else?
No BSOD, I was reading on a webpage on Opera and it froze. At first I thought it was the browser’s fault but it has frozen dong other random things but not intensive most of the time. It has happened after just ten minutes after booting up and other times maybe an hour. The mouse and keyboard will not react. Windows is up to date. No new components.
I decided to buy a new PC. I have saved up and was planning on getting something new at the end of 2025 anyhow.so Do not want to start buying components when was going to but something in a year anyhow. Going to give this one to my geek son and he can switch out parts and test it and have something better than what he is running now.
What is the lifetime writes % on the SSD anyways?
I have a weirdly similar problem. Crashing rather than freezing but just started a week or so ago. Happens during gaming, so you would think heat or power. But temps aren’t that high. It wasn’t an issue during our recent heatwave.
I had this problem a while ago and thought it was a boot drive issue. Had to swap almost every component that time round, except the MB. New MB on its way!
I don’t think I can be bothered doing the same thing over again, so if the MB doesn’t do it, I’ll probably live with it and treat as a why not upgrade hint from the universe.
I mentioned this on a thread several years ago and got a bunch of pushback for it, but I had more crashing issues on Win10 than I’ve had on basically all other versions of Windows combined for the last 15-20 years. Across multiple boxes, including one that I’d had rock-solid on 8 for a few years prior to upgrade, and on a brand-new work laptop with actual IT support. Always enough to be annoying, never enough that I was willing to spend real time chasing it down… from what I did dig up, Win10 was very cranky about some drivers or hardware interactions that may have been technically incorrect but that Win8 just shrugged off. Anyways, I finally upgraded a month or so back, and Win11 has been delightful thus far. (Also, work IT figured out their shit at some point and that laptop has been solid for a year or more. Happily ever after.)
I had a similar problem a few years ago. I took my computer to Microcenter and they couldn’t replicate the problem, even after launching the same games off my desktop that always caused it to freeze.
That left only one possibility: it was something I didn’t take to Microcenter with me as part of my computer.
I replaced my power strip with a UPS and it fixed the issue.
Couldn’t hurt.
I honestly never would have thought of that, lol
Well, the PC is dead, hit power button and nothing happens. I guess it is probably the power supply.
Good bet that’s what it is and was. They do all kinds of weird stuff as they die out.
Well, the good news is that the power supply is relatively easy to replace, should you want to do so.
Yes, my son should be able to fix it for himself. He usually inherits my old PCs as the one adult kid who like playing on a PC ( my other three play on their Xboxs).
SHAME!
I didn’t go full UPS but did pick up a Furman ‘line conditioner’. Didn’t help, so back that goes. Have now swapped in a new MB, same model as the existing one. Apart from the case I think that’s the only thing that hasn’t been swapped so far. I don’t think a flakey motherboard is all that likely, but it did also let me swap the boot drive from a slot with no room for a heatsink, to one where there is one, so maybe that’s it. Who knows. Was pleased it rebooted first time after unhooking every last thing though :)
Windows is complaining about TPM and activation stuff but that’s not the worst that could be happening.