Random performance issue that is really annoying

[Dilwei]

Hello! I am here as I have a very weird performance bug with windows that is making my gaming desktop almost unusable. It seems to have started when I upgraded my old desktop to all new hardware. Here is the basic information before I get into symptoms. 

 

Current PC Specs:

AMD Ryzen 9 5900x

RTX EVGA 2080 black gaming water cooled (recently upgraded to gigabyte 3070 gaming, same issues)

32gb 4000 mhz ddr4 g-skill cl18

rog strix x570e motherboard gaming wifi 2

512gb m.2 nvme crucial p5

2tb QVC Samsung 870 sata

 

Previous PC Specs

Intel i9 9900K

MSI 1080ti duke

32gb 3600 mhz g-skill cl16

aorus pro z390 motherboard

250gb m.2 nvme samsung 970 evo

2tb QVC Samsung 870 sata

 

I recently sold my old PC and upgraded to my currently speced PC. I used Acronis True Image to clone my boot disk from my old system to a different drive on my new system. Overtime after using my new computer I would start getting some weird symptoms that would occur pretty frequently but also randomly. The symptoms seem especially prevalent after a restart or a full shutdown after holding shift, however the symptoms will randomly reappear even with consistent use. The following symptoms are:  

 

- File explorer seems to frequently crash, or at least not appear after 2-5 minutes after a restart or shutdown. Same with task manager

- The start menu will not appear even after pressing the windows key or clicking the windows icon for several minutes, even though there is often a border around the windows icon signifying that the start menu is selected

- Sometimes even when start menu is seemingly working, I cannot use the search function as it would crash the start menu.

- occasionally after startup, my entire desktop would turn black, with only my mouse visible for several minutes 

- a 5-10% decrease in performance when running benchmarks was noticed, but unsure if this is relevant

- shortcuts such as ctrl+alt+del, ctrl+shift+esc, or windows+ctrl+shift+b either took forever to execute or didn't work at all 

 

After doing some basic investigation, I noticed the following:

- When in safe mode, these symptoms seemed to have gone away, however it was hard to tell as I couldn't use the system as I normally would

- When viewing the event viewer system logs, I did notice a bunch of critical DCOM errors (10005) happening every couple of seconds, which seemed like the obvious culprit at the time. However, after uninstalling an SSH software and disabling java update and a few other software's in the task manager startup menu, this error seemed to have gone away after a system restart. However, the symptoms persisted.  

- Checked thermals using hardware monitor, everything seemed normal

 

After doing what I have mentioned above, I did the following as actual troubleshooting steps in no particular order:

- Ran Crystal Diskmark, found no issues with SSD's.

- Ran chkdsk /f, did not find or improve anything

- Ran the windows system recovery tool, which didn't find anything

- Entered safe boot, then ran the sfc command which found and seemed to fix something, but didn't specify what and didn't fix the symptoms

- Ran DISM scans also in safe boot, did not find or improve anything

- Cleared TPM, did not fix

- Cleared CMOS, did not fix

 

At this point I realize downloading a fresh install of windows is probably the best option, however doing so would be a real pain as I have crappy internet and it would take probably weeks to redownload everything and reset all the settings. I just built and started using my new PC, and am hoping there is somehow a simple-ish fix to this as these symptoms make using my system extremely tedious. Any suggestions?

 

 

 

[emosun]

6 minutes ago, Dilwei said:

At this point I realize downloading a fresh install of windows is probably the best option

you're trying to just stuff the old installation into the new machine thinking....... that somehow windows has a feature that supports drive hopping the OS?

 

this isn't windows 95.  drive hopping isn't a windows feature , it's a thing that SOMETIMES works. When it doesn't , for example your machine , you reinstall windows.

9 minutes ago, Dilwei said:

am hoping there is somehow a simple-ish fix to this as these symptoms make using my system extremely tedious. Any suggestions?

finish building and setting up the new computer correctly before trying to do tasks with it. Don't be surprised that the OS didn't magically move to all new hardware with zero issues despite it not being a feature the os could do anyway.

[DoctorNick]

1 hour ago, Dilwei said:

Hello! I am here as I have a very weird performance bug with windows that is making my gaming desktop almost unusable. It seems to have started when I upgraded my old desktop to all new hardware. Here is the basic information before I get into symptoms. 

 

Current PC Specs:

AMD Ryzen 9 5900x

RTX EVGA 2080 black gaming water cooled (recently upgraded to gigabyte 3070 gaming, same issues)

32gb 4000 mhz ddr4 g-skill cl18

rog strix x570e motherboard gaming wifi 2

512gb m.2 nvme crucial p5

2tb QVC Samsung 870 sata

 

Previous PC Specs

Intel i9 9900K

MSI 1080ti duke

32gb 3600 mhz g-skill cl16

aorus pro z390 motherboard

250gb m.2 nvme samsung 970 evo

2tb QVC Samsung 870 sata

Yes do a clean install. Download the windows iso from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Download and run media creation tool. 

[Dilwei]

I realize a clean install is probably the best move, however I was hoping there might be another option out there as my slow internet would take more than a week to redownload everything again. Are there any other suggestions? If not I will just deal with the process of a clean install.

[emosun]

3 hours ago, Dilwei said:

I realize a clean install is probably the best move, however I was hoping there might be another option out there as my slow internet would take more than a week to redownload everything again. Are there any other suggestions? If not I will just deal with the process of a clean install.

download the iso from a faster connection

[Dilwei]

3 hours ago, emosun said:

download the iso from a faster connection

That’s not the problem, it’s all the software I need to redownload. If “a faster connection” was an option I would have just done that

[emosun]

2 hours ago, Dilwei said:

That’s not the problem, it’s all the software I need to redownload. If “a faster connection” was an option I would have just done that

ok well part of owning a computer will involve doing some amount of work in maintaining the software aspect of the machine

I understand if you don't feel like doing any form of archiving software (despite being in the situation of having no way to redownload any of the software you use and it being something that would be beneficial). But if you want any aspect of the machines software to work correctly.... you're going to need to not half ass the software aspect of the machine. Nobody here works at microsoft , nobody here wrote windows , and everyone here will tell you to reinstall the OS first before spending tons of wasted hours doing diagnostics for a machine that doesn't need them because you don't feel like doing it the correct way.