PC Freezing after upgrade

[Jonathan Pilaar]

Hello, I upgraded my motherboard, cpu and powersupply. And since then I have occasionally had my pc just freeze. Chrome just freezes, what ever game I am playing will freeze, Spotify will repeat the last 1 second of the song it was playing. I'm able to go to the windows start menu and press restart however, it then seems to just stay at a restart screen just saying its restarting and not doing anything. I've tried to load Task Manager to see if something is going on and it opens but doesn't seem to load. 

 

The only way I have been able to repeat the problem consistently is when I'm using facebook messenger when doing a video call. It normally takes a couple minutes and my Microphone stops working is the first indicator and then I can still hear them talking but then everything freezes. The video feed still goes but not always, but then everthing else is starting to freeze. 

 

What seems to temporarily fixing it is forcing the pc to restart with the power button, then when it turns back on the pc is fine again.

I have applied tiny OC with MSI Afterburner and I dropped those down dramatically to just above standard and problem persists.

 

PC specs:

I5-11600k (New)

850 psu (New)

motherboard (New)

3070

32Gb Ram

SSD's and HDD

[Jonathan Pilaar]

I have checked and updated my drivers for gpu and cpu.

[glenalz81]

If you didn't do a fresh windows install when you upgraded then that would be the first thing i would do after experiencing these issues.

[Jonathan Pilaar]

1 minute ago, glenalz81 said:

If you didn't do a fresh windows install when you upgraded then that would be the first thing i would do after experiencing these issues.

So a fresh install of windows does that mean I can't reuse the SSD drive which had my windows start up on it and would have to wipe it? What actually is a fresh windows install.

[podkall]

8 minutes ago, Jonathan Pilaar said:

So a fresh install of windows does that mean I can't reuse the SSD drive which had my windows start up on it and would have to wipe it? What actually is a fresh windows install.

you can reuse old disks, fresh install just wipes out everything that's on the disk you're trying to install the windows on [so it removes everything before it installs windows] (this includes files that are just on Desktop for example, Documents and appdata)

Edited March 26, 2023 by podkall
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[Harmsway1283]

Also check for a BIOS updates. 500 series motherboards have a lot of updates for system compatibility and stability issues.

[Jonathan Pilaar]

On 3/26/2023 at 9:27 PM, Harmsway1283 said:

Also check for a BIOS updates. 500 series motherboards have a lot of updates for system compatibility and stability issues.

Starting with doing a BIOS update how can I do that without having to try an back up my nearly full 1Tb nvme ssd starting drive?

[Jonathan Pilaar]

On 3/26/2023 at 8:33 PM, podkall said:

you can reuse old disks, fresh install just wipes out everything that's on the disk you're trying to install the windows on [so it removes everything before it installs windows] (this includes files that are just on Desktop for example, Documents and appdata)

Is it easy to move my files accross containing useful data compared to to just user files that don't really matter? Or will I just have to spend ages going through it and moving across the data I want to keep.

[podkall]

7 hours ago, Jonathan Pilaar said:

Is it easy to move my files accross containing useful data compared to to just user files that don't really matter? Or will I just have to spend ages going through it and moving across the data I want to keep.

depends what files, if it's pictures and movies, music, etc. sure you can move them somewhere

[Harmsway1283]

16 hours ago, Jonathan Pilaar said:

Starting with doing a BIOS update how can I do that without having to try an back up my nearly full 1Tb nvme ssd starting drive?

Don’t worry, the BIOS is kept separately from your drives. The motherboard has its own little bit of storage for BIOS.

[Jonathan Pilaar]

The PC is not running games now, atleast not well if they do launch. I am able to get into the launcher, and when trying to join again it says it crashed, whe playing ClusterTruck there are several long freezes but then it runs buttery smooth. Minecraft seems to run fine though. I'll start with trying to update the bios but think I'll also need to do the windows fresh install.

 

[Jonathan Pilaar]

I've done a windows fresh install and a bios update. So far it seems back to normal but I'll confirm in a week or so once I've used it more.

 

[Jonathan Pilaar]

Seems that doing the bios update and fresh windows install has fixed my issues so cheers for the help