Hi. Recently I accidentally powered off my computer during windows update due to not having any video output at the time, thus not seeing that it was updating. After this incident I kept getting BSoD until I booted in safe mode, followed by a regular reboot. Now I can get into windows fine, but whenever I do anything that strains the system even a little bit (opening a new tab, starting a youtube video, rotating a 3D model in Maya, etc) the system stutters, and any audio that's playing also does this weird robotic stuttering whenever it happens.
I suspect something may have become corrupted and I don't know how to fix it. Here are some things I have already tried which had no effect:
chkdsk command found no problems
sfc /scannow found no problems
Creating windows install media on a USB drive and performing a repair install of windows (keeping all apps, files, etc intact) didn't seem to do anything
Performing a complete reformat is only to be considered as an absolute last resort since I have a lot of files on this system that are important and a ton of software that would need reinstalling if I had to reformat, costing a ton of time, not to mention that I don't have any spare HDDs or SSDs laying around.
I suspect something may have become corrupted and I don't know how to fix it. Here are some things I have already tried which had no effect:
chkdsk command found no problems
sfc /scannow found no problems
Creating windows install media on a USB drive and performing a repair install of windows (keeping all apps, files, etc intact) didn't seem to do anything
Performing a complete reformat is only to be considered as an absolute last resort since I have a lot of files on this system that are important and a ton of software that would need reinstalling if I had to reformat, costing a ton of time, not to mention that I don't have any spare HDDs or SSDs laying around.