PC freezes for half a second

[jonasa97]

So since about one month my ASUS G73Sw has been freezing up sometimes when I'm not in a full screen application. (It doesn't occur in games). I thought it might be a RAM problem. Any suggestions on how to diagnose/fix this?

[mrenusso]

Could be a disk problem where your disk is having problems reading/writing to the platter. Do a full backup now just in case.

But it could be a lot of other things. This is pretty hard to diagnose but you could try running a disk test like ATTO and see if freezes still happens.

[qwertywarrior]

well ive been having this problem since 2 months ago

my drive is dying and im just waiting for its final breath 

but for me its not half a second its about 6 seconds

[mrenusso]

Yeah, failing disks are a pain. The only solution for @jonasa97 is to try with a different disk and see if the hangs are still happening.