Shut down causing windows instability?

[Bowjangls]

I usually leave my computer asleep when I'm not using it, If I have to shut it down there is a 1/5 chance that the next time I startup, windows will lockup a couple times. I'm not sure when this actually started but it seems like 1 of every 5 times I restart or shut down my pc, The next time will not make it past the login screen. Just today I was getting on and in the middle of me doing something, windows locked up to the point I had to power cycle it. After that I had to hard restart the pc about 3-4 times, power cycling it after every login attempt because it would just freeze. The really weird thing is now that I have done this, I probably wont have this happen for about  another 4 months, no matter if I shut down, restart, or just sleep it like normal. I have everything on solid state storage either ssd or nvme, and I have basically everything disabled on startup. Is my boot ssd dying or is it just some weird windows bs?

[emosun]

how old is the windows install

[Bowjangls]

On 8/10/2024 at 6:10 PM, emosun said:

how old is the windows install

I bought a pre-built in 2015-16 and after a few years I moved windows to a ssd and just moved the drive to the build I've had for the past about 2.5 years now. So roughly 7-8 y.o. install.

[emosun]

4 hours ago, Bowjangls said:

I bought a pre-built in 2015-16 and after a few years I moved windows to a ssd and just moved the drive to the build I've had for the past about 2.5 years now. So roughly 7-8 y.o. install.

ok so how about you make a fresh install so we can actually do diagnostics. with an 8 year old install it's a miracle it even runs at all.

time to do the bare basics of pc maintenance and refresh the os.

[Bowjangls]

2 hours ago, emosun said:

time to do the bare basics of pc maintenance and refresh the os.

Reinstalling windows is not basic maintenance but ok.

[emosun]

7 hours ago, Bowjangls said:

Reinstalling windows is not basic maintenance but ok.

that would be accurate if this were an offline copy of windows 95. then sure , you can run that installation for decades most likely without reinstalling it. Not anymore. windows today is a complete cluster f*** of patchwork code that's been cobbled together to barely function even when the installation is new.

if you actually want the machine to be diagnose-able , then bring it to baseline so it can be diagnose-able. otherwise you have 8 years worth of updates and patches that leave so much clutter behind that it's not worth trying to even begin questioning why it has issues.