Computer randomly slowing down with SSD usage of 100% ?

[Harrygc00]

Firstly I am sorry if I do not explain what's happening very well as I don't actually know whats going wrong.

My PC randomly slows down, I mean after clicking the windows icon it takes roughly 10 seconds for the box to pop up. Then sometimes even longer for the PC to shut down. It has been happening for a week now and at first only happened once or twice when I was just browsing stuff on Chrome, but however it has been happening more often and started to effect games (Sword with Sauce would get barley 30 FPS, however Dirty Bomb would still get 100-130). When this happens Task Manager says that the SSD, which is what I have my OS on, is on 100%, however I have only been able to check this once as it takes quite a while to open.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could be causing this? I think it's the SSD but have no real way to check this, and don't know how to fix it. I have 3 RAM sticks at 1333mhz and one at 1866 (I believe), could this be a problem? I have only had the computer a couple of months.

SPECS (if needed)- I7-4790K, GTX 960, 16GB DDR3 RAM.


Many thanks, Harry.

 

[Insomniac Jack]

It very well could be the RAM. Take out the 3rd stick that's running at 1866 and see if that helps.

 

[MatasJur]

Could be the ram indeed, try take it out and see what happens and if it still happens. Also do a drive health test. If health is good and its not the ram then try disabling any unnecessary programs running or reinstalling windows should more than likely clear it up

 

[Harrygc00]

Firstly, I apologise about the late reply. I took the RAM stick out and the computer didn't turn on at all, the mobo I have has a light that turns green when everything is working (I think that's what it's for) and that was on however the PC wouldn't actually turn on, no fans or anything. So I put the RAM stick back in and the PC now runs again, I haven't been using it long enough for it to freeze/ extremely slow down. Did I do something wrong when taking the RAM stick out?

I don't really know what a health drive test is, so I googled it and it seems to be only for HDD's? My OS is on an SSD, does this matter?

 

[Insomniac Jack]

After you removed that stick was the RAM still in the proper slots? 2 sticks shouldn't be side by side. so if you remove the third stick in line move the 2nd stick to the third slot after you remove it.