PC Stuttering Help

[snake731]

So earlier today I noticed my PC has started to kinda stutter for about 20-30 seconds. It'll just freeze, and I won't be able to use the mouse or anything and if I'm watching a video the audio will keep going for a bit and stop. I built my PC about a year ago and this has never happened before, and I have no idea why this is happening. What could be doing this? It seems to happen randomly every few minutes. Help would be greatly appreciated.

[Hotnuggets]

have you already run antivirus scans?

[snake731]

yep, twice. nothing was found.

[Hotnuggets]

have you tried checking your ram?

[Hotnuggets]

yep, twice. nothing was found.

 

have you tried checking your ram?

also, if you havent, try updating your drivers.

[snake731]

Yeah I checked that the usage was okay, and it was. Or do you mean like check each stick to see if it's faulty? And which drivers would I go about updating? Like video, LAN, chipset...?

[Hotnuggets]

Yeah I checked that the usage was okay, and it was. Or do you mean like check each stick to see if it's faulty? And which drivers would I go about updating? Like video, LAN, chipset...?

checking each individual stick to make sure theyre ok. updating mainly chipset drivers, but keeping all your drivers currently updated will help prevent possible problems, not saying that this is your "solve everything" solution, but it might help.

[snake731]

I checked my drivers and it seems all of them are okay. And it doesn't look like it's my ram. Both sticks are doing it. It seems like after a reboot, my computer will be fine for a few minutes and then it'll start pulling all it's shenanigans. And the weird thing was I was watching a youtube music video, everything froze up and i couldn't do anything but the music kept playing