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Okay, I've found something new: Apparently my HDD has been constantly running at 100% for some reason. Could that be related to my memory leak? EDIT: This might be a really important detail: Something I've noticed is that even if my memory usage is increasing, there are no outlying programs. My memory just says it's going up, and up, and up, even though none of the apps that I'm using at the time are going up in memory usage. It's like an invisible memory leak or something. Has this happened to anyone, and is there a solution?

I've already got 32 GB of ram, and I don't exactly have the funds to upgrade to more of it. The processor was my biggest indulgence of this year, unfortunately

All drivers are fully updated, including BIOS. No changes to leak. I'll try it out and see what it can do. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who's had this issue!! I was honestly going bonkers at the amount of information I couldn't find. It was like trying to find a solution to a really really specific problem that only I was having. Hopefully ISLC works for me.

Here's a question: Does Win. 11 fix these issues? My main issue with the memory leak is just the inability to find where it's coming from. I've checked services, processes, resource monitor, everywhere, and I cannot find a single thing that's causing it. Are there just hidden processes that could be hoarding cached memory?

It's been hell trying to search for what could be the problem. News Feed wasn't the issue, and I thought Microsoft's Security could have been the issue, but that wasn't the case either. I could try to update my GPU drivers and see if those are the issue, even though I can't see why they would be. Do you have any recommendations for software that tells you what drivers need to be updated, or is that not a thing? Also, I didn't mean to make it seem like I interpreted your message as "Windows bad", that was my bad. I was mostly just looking for more validation to switch to Linux anyways.

The thing is that I will seemingly do nothing except for my normal daily routine, and my memory will just steadily increase in usage over a period of a few days. I've disabled the Windows News Feed, so I'll see if anything changes. I realize how much hatred there is for the Windows OS, and I feel like switching to Linux might end up being the play at this point.

Yeah, lol, figured I'd upgrade anyways so it's a pretty good excuse! I do experience that brief moment of massive lag when I go to different tabs in task manager and Chrome, and it's so jarring when it happens. Not fun.

Oh yeah, I honestly don't know how I didn't consider that to be the issue. What specifically would that be? EDIT: I do use Windows 10 as well, I refuse to upgrade to 11 for the obvious reasons.

I haven't been able to find anything anywhere about this particular issue, so I figured I'd bring it up with you guys since there's a plethora of knowledge here. Specs: MoBo: GIGABYTE AB350 GAMING-3 Problem Processor: Ryzen 5 2600 Current Processor: Ryzen 5 5600X RAM: Vengance LPX 2933MHz @ 32GB with XMP @ 3200MHz GPU: Radeon RX 580 Drives: 2TB Seagate & 500GB WD Black NVMe M.2 Power Supply: RM750x Here's the basis of the problem: There's a memory leak that I've dealt with for the better part of a few months, and only recently have I gone to a last-resort ditch to replace the processor in order to alleviate the problem. I could not find where the memory leak was anywhere. When I check task manager, I'll notice that the memory stat says it's at like, 85% or more, but when I check the Users tab, it only says I'm using around 2GB at that particular time. Here's the troubleshooting I did: - Closed out all applications for a few days at a time and let computer sit idle (only resulted in same issue happening) - Uninstalled potential applications which take up large sums of ram (saw no difference) - Ran Memory Diagnostics twice to see where problem could be (ram was completely fine according to results) - Checked System Resource Manager whilst memory was up around 70-80% (found no outlying programs) - Ran stress tests on both RAM and CPU to see where problem starts (results were inconclusive) As you can see with the specs list, I did end up just buying a new CPU to see if that would fix it. I did also want to upgrade to a newer generation of Ryzen anyways, so I figured why not kill two birds with one stone? Anyways, I'm curious as to if I may have missed a troubleshooting step or maybe it could have been something else? So far it's been smooth sailing for the past day or so, with no abnormal amounts or spikes of RAM usage.

Turns out he fixed it by clearing his C drive, but thank you regardless! I’m sure he’ll use this if he OC’s again.

My friend and I were trying overclocking his CPU past 4.7, and we were messing with the voltage offset because I had heard that it helps to up the voltage. We decided +0.05 would be best because it isn’t a lot (or so we thought), and suddenly the computer blue screened. When we tried booting into windows again, it would stagnate at the same loading ring forever. After a while of messing with the system recovery options, we then decided to restore default UEFI settings to no avail. We then tried installing windows on an external HDD to try and solve the problem and boot from there, but with yet no result. Specs: i7-6700K ASRock Z270 Extreme 4 16 GB DDR4 2133 MHz RAM Corsair RX750 PSU (i think) XFury 256 GB SSD 1 TB 7200 RPM HDD GTX 1080 6 GB (Founders Edition) Corsair H60 Rad. Error codes: 0x80300024 CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR 0xc0000225

I just tried adding a separate SATA power cable to my PSU, and still no dice. Hard drive isn’t even showing up in my partitioning software.

The hard drive just isn’t showing up at all.

Hello, So I just built a new rig. It’s got a Ryzen 5 2600, 16 GB RAM, MSI Radeon RX 580, GA-AB350-GAMING 3, M.2 NVMe 500 GB SSD, 2 TB HDD, CoolerMaster ML360R, as well as a PSU, all inside the Cullinan 500V. My only concerns are with the hard drive (main concern) and my inability to download anything or go onto certain pages. My PSU is a Corsair RM750x, and it came with its SATA power cable, which has its multiple off-ends. I have the main end-port on the hub for the CoolerMaster remote, and I have another plug for the HDD. I’m guessing it’s something to do with that, but I’m not sure. Help?

If it helps any (I appreciate the comments, they’ll help me immensely for budgeting), I’m planning on having this computer for casual gaming on the down-low, but its main purpose will be running algorithms to find large prime numbers. I’m in a group called GIMPS, and large workloads are something I need to be able to run decently.

Alright, so I’m at a pretty bad state right now. I joined here to get suggestions as to how I could improve my system besides just getting a new computer in general: My specs are: AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core 2.2 GHz CPU 4 GB DDR2 800 MHz DIMM RAM M2N68-LA (Narra3) Motherboard AMD Radeon R5 220 GPU It’s pretty crud; how would one go about upgrading this rig without spending over $300?