Computer constantly freezes up even when doing simple tasks

[DoofWarrior]

Windows 10 GTX 1060 AMD FX 8350 16 GB RAM Mobo: M5A97 LE R2.0


For the past few months, every single time I come back to my computer after even barely being gone from it, the mouse becomes extremely laggy, as does the keyboard, and the computer itself. Thus, I am unable to open or close anything on the computer until the lagging stops. This lag happens not only when I return to my computer, but virtually any time I open a program it will lag for at least 10 seconds, and recently it's just been lagging at completely random times too. I can't tell if it's my CPU because by the time I am able to open Task Manager the lagging will have had to have stopped. I'm guessing it either has to do with Windows 10 itself, my CPU, my GPU or my RAM. I've tried using virtual memory and several other things. This is very infuriating. Please help me.

 

[Karadjgne]

Virtual memory doesn't work, all that does is portion out a part of your drive (ssd or hdd) as tempory ram (ram is faster and you have more than enough with 16Gb)

What I'd do first is goto the motherboard vendors website and download every new driver for motherboard chipsets they have, this could take several reboots. Include audio, Lan, USB family, Sata etc.

 

[DoofWarrior]

Virtual memory doesn't work, all that does is portion out a part of your drive (ssd or hdd) as tempory ram (ram is faster and you have more than enough with 16Gb)

What I'd do first is goto the motherboard vendors website and download every new driver for motherboard chipsets they have, this could take several reboots. Include audio, Lan, USB family, Sata etc.

Do I need to disable the Virtual Memory? And what leads you to believe the motherboard is the issue?

 

[ElectrO_90]

First of, if you boot into Windows Safemode - does it do it?

 

[Karadjgne]

It's not the motherboard per se, but the drivers used in the chipsets on the motherboard. WindowsCE implemented a halfway radical change to prior OS, it prefers to always use 64bit (x64) drivers for everything. It has default drivers just for that. Your audio drivers (for instance) are 32bit (x86) and are specific to the audio chipset, just like nvidia drivers are specific to nvidia gpus. But the audio drivers are legacy, windows is uefi and windows sees that it has a newer version (say v3.0) of a file but the audio is looking for v2.2. When it doesn't find 2.2, it starts looping, looking for a way out until windows finally forces 3.0 on it, or it just chucks the bucket and freezes up.

It's an extremely common issue with the new windows updates. So much so that many older chipset drivers will freeze up a pc. So the mobo vendors went back and patched the old drivers to allow it to accept the v3.0 or 2.2 as needed.

Gonna come a day when all drivers are x64 based on x64 platforms and everything will be like it was in Win7, easy breazy, but until that day, for any legacy mobo's and drivers, you gotta go get the band-aid.

 

[DoofWarrior]

It's not the motherboard per se, but the drivers used in the chipsets on the motherboard. WindowsCE implemented a halfway radical change to prior OS, it prefers to always use 64bit (x64) drivers for everything. It has default drivers just for that. Your audio drivers (for instance) are 32bit (x86) and are specific to the audio chipset, just like nvidia drivers are specific to nvidia gpus. But the audio drivers are legacy, windows is uefi and windows sees that it has a newer version (say v3.0) of a file but the audio is looking for v2.2. When it doesn't find 2.2, it starts looping, looking for a way out until windows finally forces 3.0 on it, or it just chucks the bucket and freezes up.

It's an extremely common issue with the new windows updates. So much so that many older chipset drivers will freeze up a pc. So the mobo vendors went back and patched the old drivers to allow it to accept the v3.0 or 2.2 as needed.

Gonna come a day when all drivers are x64 based on x64 platforms and everything will be like it was in Win7, easy breazy, but until that day, for any legacy mobo's and drivers, you gotta go get the band-aid.

I installed the most recent Asus drivers for my mobo, do I just need to run the exe file in each of them? Then what?

 

[Karadjgne]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.windowscentral.com/how-properly-update-device-drivers-windows-10%3Famp&ved=0ahUKEwianaKF6YPbAhWstVkKHXzeDYAQFggsMAI&usg=AOvVaw1m11POaHOpjeliJYxt9GPo

 

[ElectrO_90]

If your windows is "bad" because of malware, you need to boot up in safemode and see if you have problems.
Until then, you won't really know if it is hardware related or software related without a lot more testing.
A simple safemode boot will shave hours off of fault finding.

 

[DoofWarrior]

If your windows is "bad" because of malware, you need to boot up in safemode and see if you have problems.
Until then, you won't really know if it is hardware related or software related without a lot more testing.
A simple safemode boot will shave hours off of fault finding.

Well I just booted in safe mode and the lagging seems to have stopped. What do I do next?

 

[ElectrO_90]

Then it is definitely something that is loading up with windows that is causing the problem.
If you go into task manager at the top you can go to startup tab and turn everything off, then see if that cures it when you are in normal windows.
from there, if it did cure it, something that is auto loading is causing the problem.
Also run ZHPCleaner and clean any malware problems.

 

[DoofWarrior]

Then it is definitely something that is loading up with windows that is causing the problem.
If you go into task manager at the top you can go to startup tab and turn everything off, then see if that cures it when you are in normal windows.
from there, if it did cure it, something that is auto loading is causing the problem.
Also run ZHPCleaner and clean any malware problems.

Ok I'll try disabling the startup items.

 

[DoofWarrior]

Then it is definitely something that is loading up with windows that is causing the problem.
If you go into task manager at the top you can go to startup tab and turn everything off, then see if that cures it when you are in normal windows.
from there, if it did cure it, something that is auto loading is causing the problem.
Also run ZHPCleaner and clean any malware problems.

I'm still experiencing occasional lag even after disabling the startup programs, though it might have gotten a little better. Still isn't fixed though.