Multiple issues with Chrome

antix8989 · June 2, 2019

Ok recently i upgraded my rig.

9700K @ 5.0GHz

Gigabyte Aorus Ultra

16GB Corsair Venenge Pro RGB RAM 3200Mhz

Titan X Pascal +212Mhz

WD Black 500GB NVME SSD

2 x 250GB SATA SSD in raid 0 (for steam)

2 x 4TB + 2 x 2TB WD Green HDD

Corsair TX 650W

All was fine (except no Lan drivers present after intalling windows 10). Then I installed CHROME. I immediately started experiencing periodic lockups i.e the whole computer becomes unresponsive for around 30 seconds to a minute, the mouse is frozen and ctrl+alt+del does nothing. Eventually it comes back, only to lockup a little while later. In addition to this, web pages in chrome are loading extreemly slowly if at all. They more often than not come back with...

This site can’t be reached

www.floatplane.com took too long to respond.

I've tried the following with no sucess:

1. Reset chrome and reinstalled with no Adons

2. Reinstalled W10, installed drivers and clean installed chrome (no adons etc or login for sync)

3. Tripple checked all drivers are up to date. this was done via both gigabyte app centre and SDI_R1904

4. Tested other browsers, Firefox & IE are fine. Chrome, Canary and Opera are not, pointing to an underlying chromium issue.

5. Run the windows network diagnostic with this error "windows could not automatically detect this network's proxy settings", I've checked and LAN settings are set to automatic.

6. Installed the latest JAVA plugin

7. Reset TCP/IP

8. Monitored task manager while the issue presents. No spikes in CPU or memory detected

9. Tested with VPN on/off (PIA). No difference

10. Tested with window defender and firewall on/off

11. Manually set DNS to googles

12. Ensured W10 is up to date.

13. Disabled hardwear acceleration in chrome.

I'm sure there are more but I can't remember. I'm writing this on firefox with chome open in the background. I currently have 5 tabs open and 21 chrome processes. The whole PC has locked up at least 4 times while typing, with the longest being about 4-5mins before it came back. There is nothing in the event log/reliability log and no spikes in task manager. I uninstall chrome, the issue goes away.

I'm completely stuck. Please help! My work is heavily integreated with google, I can get by with firefox, but having chrome back and also understanding what the issue is would be amazing. Especially as I spent nearly £1000 on this system upgrade and I can't use my prefered browser......super lame.