Computer freezing in a strange way.

[jaredseg]

So, recently a built a new skylake based computer with an old gtx 760 GPU, and something strange has started to happen occasionally. When I'm using my computer, at a random time, the computer may just start freezing everything for about 3 to 5 seconds, then unfreezing for anywhere from 2 seconds to 10 seconds, and repeating. This will not stop no matter what unless I completely restart my computer. I can not figure out what on earth is causing it. When I go into task manager and look at what processes are being used, my CPU and CPU both aren't anywhere near max load, and no programs are hogging resources. Anyone have any ideas as to what the cause may be? One more thing I might add is that my 6600K is overclocked to 4.5 Ghz, but not a constant overclock, its adaptive. Any response is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[aheuer6]

When you go into task manager, does it show your hard drive as full usage? I had this problem. It was a driver issue.

Even if it's not the hard drive causing problems, it could still be a driver issue, as the default Microsoft drivers that come with windows don't always play nice with certain hardware.

 

[jaredseg]

When you go into task manager, does it show your hard drive as full usage? I had this problem. It was a driver issue.

Even if it's not the hard drive causing problems, it could still be a driver issue, as the default Microsoft drivers that come with windows don't always play nice with certain hardware.

I'll have to wait til it happens again to see if that's the issue, but I don't think there was a maxed out disk issue, it happened before I even got my hard drive, when I was only using an SSD.

 

[pingu_Z]

I would start by removing the OC, you say it is adaptive but adaptive to what what condition does it have for ramping up or down. Secondly what OS are you running on that? Part of the newer WDDM setups does a lot of auto driver recovery instead of the good old BSOD it could be the NVidia drivers constantly crashing and reloading. Hell I had one machine that was doing something similar and it turned out to be Steams authentication crashing in the background because an AVG update broke it.

What I am getting at is I need a little more information about your setup.

 

[aheuer6]

When you go into task manager, does it show your hard drive as full usage? I had this problem. It was a driver issue.

Even if it's not the hard drive causing problems, it could still be a driver issue, as the default Microsoft drivers that come with windows don't always play nice with certain hardware.

I'll have to wait til it happens again to see if that's the issue, but I don't think there was a maxed out disk issue, it happened before I even got my hard drive, when I was only using an SSD.

That's the exact problem I had, when I installed a new SSD. I've seen a large number of posts across the internet regarding SSDs freezing due to improper drivers.

If this seems to be the case with your computer, try to find AHCI drivers for your machine on Intel's website. Then you'll have to go into device manager and find your storage controller and switch the driver.

 

[jaredseg]

I would start by removing the OC, you say it is adaptive but adaptive to what what condition does it have for ramping up or down. Secondly what OS are you running on that? Part of the newer WDDM setups does a lot of auto driver recovery instead of the good old BSOD it could be the NVidia drivers constantly crashing and reloading. Hell I had one machine that was doing something similar and it turned out to be Steams authentication crashing in the background because an AVG update broke it.

What I am getting at is I need a little more information about your setup.

The BIOS handles the ramping up and down with a "tweaking AI" but for the voltage, base is 1.120v with turbo at 1.3, and an additional offset of 50mv for a max power of 1.35v. I'm running Windows 10. So what do you recommend I do outside of removing the OC?

 

[jaredseg]

When you go into task manager, does it show your hard drive as full usage? I had this problem. It was a driver issue.

Even if it's not the hard drive causing problems, it could still be a driver issue, as the default Microsoft drivers that come with windows don't always play nice with certain hardware.

I'll have to wait til it happens again to see if that's the issue, but I don't think there was a maxed out disk issue, it happened before I even got my hard drive, when I was only using an SSD.

That's the exact problem I had, when I installed a new SSD. I've seen a large number of posts across the internet regarding SSDs freezing due to improper drivers.

If this seems to be the case with your computer, try to find AHCI drivers for your machine on Intel's website. Then you'll have to go into device manager and find your storage controller and switch the driver.

I'm using a PCIe SSD, I don't think I should have the same issue with drivers should I?