Question Weird PC Freezing issue

[Marcel Schollen]

So lately my PC has been having a really weird Issue where it will randomly start freezing up. the PC is not FULLY frozen, I can still move my cursor and click on things but nothing will work properly. Even when I click Shutdown or Restart it will do nothing except for slowly shutting down all the active apps but not actually turn off the PC itself, if I logout through CTRL+ALT+DELETE it will be stuck on a log out screen loop and everything will just seem extremely laggy. When highlighting something such as hovering your mouse over an icon in the taskbar the highlight of the icon will stay stuck when I move my mouse away.. all this kind of crap, no apps will load properly, etc etc etc..

I have absolutely no idea what is causing these issues, I thought it was a memory leak at first of some sort but nothing seems to be wrong with my ram.. I don't even know if it's hardware or software related.. Does anyone happen to know what I am talking about? I have been trying to much to fix it, clean my PC, reseat all my RAM, check cables, full clean install of windows..

Please someone help me out here.

I will edit this and include a video as soon as it happens again.

Here is my specs/everything in my PC:

Hardware

• Case - Fractal Design Define R4 Window Edition
• CPU - Intel Core I7 4790K
• CPU Cooler - Corsair Hydro H110i
• Disc Drive - Liteon iHAS124
• GPU - Asus GTX1060 Dual O3G
• HDD - Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
• Media Reader - Sharkoon Media Reader 3
• Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3
• PSU - Corsair RM650x
• RAM - Corsair Vengeance 16GB
• Soundcard - ASUS ROG Xonar Phoebus
• SSD - PNY CS1311
• USB Header Expansion - NZXT IU01
• Wifi/Bluetooth Card - Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I
• OS - Windows 10
  
  Edit:
  Here is a video of what it looks like when it happens:
  
  
  View: https://youtu.be/myznssRTHbU
  
  
  Somethings I didn't state in the video.
  
  Usually I can still get to the start menu and actually click shut down or restart. however it will not do anything. and normally when i do CTRL+ALT+DELETE and click any of the options other than task mngr I just get a loop of ''logging off'' screen.
  

 

[Lutfij]

First make sure you're on the latest BIOS version for your motherboard. The next step is to check and see which OS version you're currently on. You might be on Windows 10 but pretty much everyone is on version 2004. The next thing to do is remove all the unnecessary hardware that isn't required for booting to OS, see if that helps.

How old is the PSU, mind you?

 

[Marcel Schollen]

First make sure you're on the latest BIOS version for your motherboard. The next step is to check and see which OS version you're currently on. You might be on Windows 10 but pretty much everyone is on version 2004. The next thing to do is remove all the unnecessary hardware that isn't required for booting to OS, see if that helps.

How old is the PSU, mind you?

My MOBO has not had a bios update since 2016 so that should be all good.
My OS is on version 10.0.19041 Build 19041
Removing the unnecessary hardware can be done but it's gonna be very hard to tell if it helps or not because the issue happens at random, sometimes not for 3 days, sometimes 3 times in one day.
My PSU is 4 years old.

 

[mikkischutt90]

Did you find the solution?? because my PC just started doing it after i upgraded it.
with this
Motherboard : Aorus B550 Pro V2
CPU : AMD Ryzen 5800X
RAM : Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4-3600 C18 DC 16Gb
CPU cooler : Masterliquid ML240L V2

BIOS is updated for support for the new CPU and RAM is running at 3600mhz in BIOS too

Someone said it could be firmware on my SSD but i tried updating it and it's still happens.
My CPU is running are bit hot for low work. 46C while writing this. but i have a small game in background running.

 

[mikkischutt90]

don't know if you have fixed it or just got something new.

But if you have Razer Cortex installed. Then uninstall it. it was the source of the same problem for me. or you may have a different program that is doing the same thing. And that is messing with your CPU or maybe even your RAM.