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Sorry for the slow reply. Still got the same behaviour after trying this sadly. Thought this could have been an issue so we tried this a few times during our original troubleshooting and didn't seem to help. Even gave the slots a blow with compressed air and didn't see any improvements. Sadly got no spare CPU's lying around so can't try swapping it, but it has been a few years since that CPU was reseated so will see if my friend is comfortable giving it a go and then will report back. Although they're now considering just grabbing a new cheap cpu and motherboard as both the 6700k and the motherboard are over 5-6 years old. Will keep this posted with results of cpu reseating.

PC Specs: CPU: i7 6700k (No overclocking) Mobo: Gigabyte Z170N-WiFi (ITX) RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB C16 @ 3200Mhz PSU: 500w SFX (Don't know brand) GPU: GTX 1070Ti SSD: Samsung EVO 960 250GB + 850 Evo 500GB OS: Windows 10 64 bit Hey Folks, so around a month ago a friends PC black screened a few times in Windows (no blue screens, just immediate black screen and restart) over a few days and then ended up in a constant restart loop with it getting to the BIOS splash screen, the spinning dots sometimes appearing and then the PC screen goes black, fans stop for half a second and then it powers back on - then it repeats till you pull the power. Turning off XMP, lowering memory clock speeds and BIOS/CMOS resets seemed to have no effect. Tried aida 64 stability test, crashed as soon as memory was tested and used memtest to specifically focus on the memory, with the system becoming unstable seemingly after hitting 8GBs with both sticks installed (before it started not getting into windows). However, after taking one stick out if the right channel it appeared to go stable, so I took some spare sticks down a few days later, popped them both in the system and all seemed fine. So I assumed it was a RAM stick issue. About a month later now, and yesterday the exact same issue has occurred again but this time the black screening also occurs now within the actual BIOS itself (which it didn't before), taking out the stick in the right channel again appears to now let it boot and be usable for a while but still seems to hit the black screen eventually. I don't have the ability to check either the CPU or motherboard to specifically pinpoint the issue but I'm assuming the right memory channel (or something related) is on it's way out, given the board is at least over 4-5 years old I'm not too surprised. I believe that replacing the motherboard should fix the issues we're facing, but hoping to get some confirmation of my suspicion from some folks on here as well before pulling the trigger and buying a new motherboard. So if anyone has some extra troubleshooting tips that don't rely on replacing a component then feel free to fire away. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the shout. I doubt a restore point will fix anything as this has happened after I full reinstalled windows however I'll give the others a go.

For the last month or so my computer has randomly been freezing and becoming unresponsive and requires me to forcefully shut it down with the power button. It happens 1 or 2 times a day at most. When it freezes, what ever was on my monitors at the time remains there and a loud popping/crackling noise goes through my USB headset (the sound last for less than a second). I initially had my PC overclocked to 4.7GHz (4.0 base) and figured that would be the problem but after leaving it a stock for a while it hasn't stopped it. Also, it happens both during playing games and just browsing the web. My PC Specs are as follows: i7 6700K @ 4.00GHz / Asus Z170-A / GTX 970 (base clock) / Corsair Vengence DDR4 16GB @ 2100Mhz / H100i AIO / 500 Samsung 850 evo / 1TB WB Blue + 2TB Seagate Barracuda / Corsair CX500 / My personal opinion is that the PSU might be on the blink as I have had it for around 1.5 - 2 years. However I'm not the best when it comes to troubleshooting so I'd like some more opinions. If you need anymore info then ask away. Extra: Event Viewer shows no logs relating to anything other than "Critical: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly". Temps remain below 65C on my cpu and below 60C on my GPU under load. Cheers.

Example of what I mean.

I have been doing this for the past couple of days and nothing seems out of the ordinary, normally have about 6-7 chrome tags open and some other programs and it fluctuates between 30-40% CPU usage and 8gb ram with little disk usage. The only thing not normal is in Resource monitor during my darwing on Photoshop, it'll become unresponsive and show up red whilst my cpu usage stays low.

The creators update isn't installed as far as i'm aware - No 'Gaming' option in the settings menu.

I've looked through Hardware Monitor and nothing is hogging any resources, looks perfectly normal to me. I have done a couple of scans using Malwarebytes as It's what I initially thought it was and it turned up no results. However I'll try it again.

I'll have a look through it now and check but it's the fact that even when i'm not playing games my system is incredibly slow to respond to anything. For example right now I have 5 chrome tabs open and photoshop (using 8gb ram out of 16gb) and Photoshop keeps becoming unresponsive to my inputs.

Yes i do.

Hey guys, I've been having this issue recently where my computer just seems really slow to respond to anything i do. Moving chrome tabs around is very choppy and slow, changing tabs in chrome can be slow, every so often in Photoshop there's a large delay between me clicking and it appearing on screen and it struggles to even open, in games like Rust, CSGO and Dota i've noticed significant FPS drop to where I can barely turn around on some Rust servers. Yet i have no idea what is causing this, it began happening around 5 days ago and updating my drivers has done sod all for it and clearing out space on my SSDs. I honestly don't know where to begin with troubleshooting this system wide slowdown. My specs: i7 6700K @ base, GTX 970, Sandisk ultra ssd (system drive), Samsung Evo 850 ssd (storage). I have run some benchmarks using AS SSD benchmark which i'll include below. During these tests my system became fully unresponsive during the 4k-64Thrd test for both drives and using task manager, the response time for all tests varied between 0.1ms to around 800ms. If anyone can help me It'd be greatly appreciated and feel free to ask any questions if needed.

Should take a look at the Motorola 360 - It's a great watch that I use everyday. Charge it every 2-3 days as i leave it on every night.

Hi guys, For the past couple of days I've noticed small amounts of packet loss within Teamspeak and Dota 2 ( around 4%) which I just ignored thinking it was just the servers. However to this day I am still receiving packet loss on my network. My packet loss (measured with teamspeak) wavers between 8% and 50% with both in and out traffic being affected. So I've tried using both on my Ethernet ports and my WiFi with the same results; I have uninstalled and reinstalled all drivers which also hasn't helped. I have tried resetting my router multiple times with the longest being 10 minutes and this still hasn't helped. I have also tested my internet on my phone which also results in around 11% packet loss and I'm officially out of ideas. I believe that my router may be on it's way out (it is 3+ years old) however I'm not an expert in this field. System specs: i7-6700K / GTX 970 / Gigabyte Z170N-WiFi Router: ZyXel P-2812HNU-F1 Thanks in advance!

It seems that the LNA were causing the issues, removed them and both fans are running fine. Thanks for the help guys!

Both are 4pin PWM Thanks for the information, ill check this out when I have time. I will try this once I have some spare time, thanks!