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Which part of my PC is failing? (feddit.nl)
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Lately my PC has been freezing sporadically. Not freezing completely, as I can still move my mouse, videos or music continue playing and window animations still function, but whenever I try to open a new page or folder it doesn't do anything. Sometimes it last for 5 seconds, sometimes for 5 minutes. Then all the actions I tried to do while frozen suddenly happen all at once. It even happens when trying to boot sometimes.

I checked my SSD SMART and it's fine, I performed a RAM health check and it's fine. I don't know how to check if it's my CPU, so it could be that. What can I do?

My specs:

  • CPU: Ryzen 7 1800X
  • GPU: GTX 1070
  • RAM: 2x8GB 2133MHz
  • SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 1TB
  • OS: Windows 11 Education
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know you said that you checked the health of your SSD, but did you use the manufacturer's program to do so? I find SMART tables aren't nearly as accurate for solid state drives as they are for spindle drives.

It's unlikely that it's the CPU. I recommend, if you're able, to grab a copy of Parted Magic and boot into that live environment to see if the issue persists. Any live distro will work but I highly recommend PM since it is packaged for troubleshooting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just downloaded Samsung's software but it can't run diagnostics for my SSD (850 EVO). It also says "Good" for Drive Health but I suspect that's SMART as well.