Okay I don't even know what happened or what caused this but last night I installed a Windows update. I think it was Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 (KB5033372). Everything went fine until after it restarted. The ASUS TUF splash screen came up and the little loading circle came up as well, then it froze for what felt like 10-15 seconds. It finally booted into the windows login screen but very sluggishly. Then suddenly it BSOD and gave me an error saying kernel security check failed. It then rebooted again and this time no blue screen, however the system slowed to an absolute crawl! It was really laggy, choppy and hiccupping like crazy. The mouse cursor was skipping/stuttering, moved very slowly despite high DPI setting and there were also some screen artifacts on the desktop. (Kinda looked like when an LCD screen gets cracked) So at this point I figured a clean install of Windows was in order because I recently upgraded my motherboard from a B450 to an ASUS TUFF B550 and never did a clean install of the OS. So I figured maybe it was conflicting driver issue from the old mobo?? I dunno. 🤷♂️ I should also mention that I recently updated to the latest BIOS version about a week or so prior to any of this happening but everything was fine for a while. I ran games, booted up my system from sleep, restart, shutdown etc. It all ran beautifully before that damn Windows update!
So anyway, I reinstalled Windows. I installed all latest Windows updates and all the necessary drivers etc. (I even had to spend $15 on another stupid Windows key!) All seemed fine and well until I woke the PC back up from sleep later on in the day. Black screen, no video signal. The PC then rebooted itself. Again, black screen. Finally when the signal came back it showed the TUF splash screen and the loading circle slowed and hung again. My heart sank! NOOOO! NOT AGAIN!! 😭😭 Windows login screen comes up and here we go again with the slow/sluggish/choppy responsiveness! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! What IS HAPPENING?!?! 😡😡😡😰😰😰 It also did those weird screen artifacts again! I ran sfc /scannow and it found and repaired some files. However the issue still persisted after another reboot.
I then ran Windows update and it installed a .NET framework update. I rebooted it again and then this time the system seemed normal and stable again. I ran 3D Mark Timespy DX12 stress test for 20 loops. 99.2% frame stability. No crash, no BSOD, nothing. System was still stable afterward. I then ran Speed Way stress test for 20 loops. Again, 99.2% frame stability. No crash, no BSOD. Also played some Cyberpunk for about a half hour, no crash, no BSOD, game ran smoothly. However, I tried rebooting the system again, same issue. Hang on splash screen, then slow, stuttering responsiveness. Reboot again, and the system ran stable. I then rebooted it a couple more times just to see if I could replicate the issue again and sure enough, boom! It happened again. Did another reboot, and it's fine. Another reboot, still fine. One more reboot, here we go again! I should also note that in Event Viewer I noticed a ton of "Metadata staging failed" errors that came up around the times the issue was present. (Then again it also do when it wasn't) I'm not sure if that's relevant at all, but I feel I should still mention it.
Like this is really weird! It seems like every now & then when I reboot my system it behaves really screwy. WHY?! 😭 Is it the BIOS update? If so, how? It ran great up until that update! Can someone please help?
Here are my specs:
ASUS TUF B550 Plus WIFI II motherboard
Ryzen 5 5600x (No overclock)
G.Skill 32GB 3200Mhz RAM (4 8GB sticks)
ASUS TUF RTX 4070
EVGA Supernova 750W PSU
Windows 10 Pro
So anyway, I reinstalled Windows. I installed all latest Windows updates and all the necessary drivers etc. (I even had to spend $15 on another stupid Windows key!) All seemed fine and well until I woke the PC back up from sleep later on in the day. Black screen, no video signal. The PC then rebooted itself. Again, black screen. Finally when the signal came back it showed the TUF splash screen and the loading circle slowed and hung again. My heart sank! NOOOO! NOT AGAIN!! 😭😭 Windows login screen comes up and here we go again with the slow/sluggish/choppy responsiveness! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! What IS HAPPENING?!?! 😡😡😡😰😰😰 It also did those weird screen artifacts again! I ran sfc /scannow and it found and repaired some files. However the issue still persisted after another reboot.
I then ran Windows update and it installed a .NET framework update. I rebooted it again and then this time the system seemed normal and stable again. I ran 3D Mark Timespy DX12 stress test for 20 loops. 99.2% frame stability. No crash, no BSOD, nothing. System was still stable afterward. I then ran Speed Way stress test for 20 loops. Again, 99.2% frame stability. No crash, no BSOD. Also played some Cyberpunk for about a half hour, no crash, no BSOD, game ran smoothly. However, I tried rebooting the system again, same issue. Hang on splash screen, then slow, stuttering responsiveness. Reboot again, and the system ran stable. I then rebooted it a couple more times just to see if I could replicate the issue again and sure enough, boom! It happened again. Did another reboot, and it's fine. Another reboot, still fine. One more reboot, here we go again! I should also note that in Event Viewer I noticed a ton of "Metadata staging failed" errors that came up around the times the issue was present. (Then again it also do when it wasn't) I'm not sure if that's relevant at all, but I feel I should still mention it.
Like this is really weird! It seems like every now & then when I reboot my system it behaves really screwy. WHY?! 😭 Is it the BIOS update? If so, how? It ran great up until that update! Can someone please help?
Here are my specs:
ASUS TUF B550 Plus WIFI II motherboard
Ryzen 5 5600x (No overclock)
G.Skill 32GB 3200Mhz RAM (4 8GB sticks)
ASUS TUF RTX 4070
EVGA Supernova 750W PSU
Windows 10 Pro
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