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SSD dying?

Fr4nt1s3k
By Fr4nt1s3k
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Hello, I've ran into a problem after upgrading my PC.
When I work on desktop, browse the internet or watch YouTube (especially that), I get annoying screen + audio freezes. I can sometimes move the mouse around, but nothing is responding!
When watching YouTube, the sound stops at a particular moment and repeats itself until freeze stops. Very often turning monitor off and on helps, so I'm wondering if it has anything to do with Nvidia G-sync and Nvidia audio drivers?
What's even the point of Nvidia audio drivers if I use Realtek audio? When playing games, I never get these freezes, but the games are on other drives.

 

My SSD is Kingston 128 GB. I've been using it for about 4 years now and knowing it's SSD, I tried not to overwrite and move files too much.


I installed all latest drivers (chipset, IDE/SATA controller, GPU, network... everything… and yes, I made a clean Windows installation before).

 

Nothing helped so far :( 

 

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I doubt it's going bad, but run Crystaldisk on it and see what the health is like.

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Monitor: LG 27GL83B Mouse: Razer Basilisk V2 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red Speakers: Mackie CR5BT

 

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If you use chrome try turning off hardware acceleration in the settings

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I'm using Firefox. I tried Edge and the freezes still happen.
If I run the PC for about an hour though, the freezes don't appear anymore.

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It's hard to tell what the problém could be.
I'll try to make a new clean installation and format all drives again.

Luckily, I have a new 250 GB SSD I got in a bundle with the motherboard, so I can eliminate the old dying SSD possibility.  ?

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Wow, that was fast. I tried just to reinstall this current Windows installation and the problem seems to be gone. Browsing the web seems smoother too.

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