Question Windows 7: Screen freezing every minute or so for about 5 seconds, but I can move my mouse and audio still works.

[Koogan]

So I first noticed this problem a few weeks ago while playing Tarkov. I thought it was just the game, but the freezes continued after the game had been quit out of. Th eonly way to know tthat there is a freeze is if there is some continual visual output, such asd a video. The audio to the video will function normally and I can move my cursor around, but every thing on the screen is frozen.

I have cleaned my fans, resat my gpu and ram, run disc checks, updated graphics drivers, cleared up space on both hard drives, monitored cpu and gpu temps, and restarted countless times.

A week ago I updated my Geforce drivers in an attempot to stop the freezes, and it was successful for about a week, but now they are back.

Any idea on what is happening and how to fix it? I am at a loss.

 

[me 1]

Does it do the same in safemode ?
Anything in eventviewer? checked for minidumps?
Check temps( try speedfan)
Any process in task manager behave weird on cpu usage?

 

[Koogan]

Log Name: Application
Source: VSS
Date: 3/11/2020 4:14:28 AM
Event ID: 12348
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: PC
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service warning: VSS was denied access to the root of volume \\?\Volume{9c6c6a34-6fc2-11e6-910e-4ccc6a090757}\. Denying administrators from accessing volume roots can cause many unexpected failures, and will prevent VSS from functioning properly. Check security on the volume, and try the operation again.

Operation:
Removing auto-release shadow copies
Loading provider

Context:
Execution Context: System Provider
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="VSS" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">12348</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2020-03-11T08:14:28.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>68341</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>


I saw this in the eventlog after the most recent freeze. I don't really know what I'm looking at.
I also saw some warnings about DNS servers not responding.
<EventData>
<Data>\\?\Volume{9c6c6a34-6fc2-11e6-910e-4ccc6a090757}\</Data>
<Data>

Operation:
Removing auto-release shadow copies
Loading provider

Context:
Execution Context: System Provider</Data>
<Binary>2D20436F64653A2053505250524F564330303030323333312D2043616C6C3A2053505250524F564330303030323237332D205049443A202030303030333530342D205449443A202030303031313336382D20434D443A2020433A5C57696E646F77735C53797374656D33325C737663686F73742E657865202D6B2073777072762D20557365723A204E616D653A204E5420415554484F524954595C53595354454D2C205349443A532D312D352D313820</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

 

[VOIDEV]

are you able to test your system on windows 10? at this point you might even have a virus using windows 7

 

[Koogan]

I don't have a Windows 10 key, but I can get one and upgrade to it. I have Norton professional and i've scanned multiple times.

 

[VOIDEV]

you dont need a windows key to install windows, its just the watermark
I highly recommend upgrading to windows 10 you can get cheap keys here
https://www.g2a.com/microsoft-windows-10-pro-microsoft-key-global-i10000083916004

 

[Koogan]

I checked my bios and it told me that my second cpu fan was not working. I'll check it out, but I've been monitoring my temps via CAM and my CPU hasn't gone too high.