Windows 10 - Persistent 2-5 second freezes

[miniahobbie]

Soup,

         so I am experiencing small freezes of my system that appear after certain amount of demand has been asked from my pc. These freezes usually last 2-5 seconds and happen every few seconds as I try to navigate through different applications. After a boot my computer is fine and won't freeze but after about 1 hour or when I open a videogame I notice the freezes appear and my CPU and memory usage shoot up. If I have only chrome, skype and steam open then my cpu usage floats between 5% and 30% and my memory usage around 15% to 40%. 

 

However, after a fair amount of time or having been in a game my cpu usage sticks to 60%+ and my memory to 70%+ and will not come back down unless I reboot my system. I have only been experiencing this for the past 2 days and I've gone through reboots, anti-virus scans, driver updates and recovery tools to fix it but I am having no luck in getting rid of the problem.

 

CPU - AMD FX-8350

RAM - Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz

GPU - AMD Sapphire R9 280X Vapor-X

Mobo - Asus M5A99FX Pro 2.0

PSU - Corsair HX750i

HDD - WD Black 1TB

SSD - Crucial MX100 256GB

 

OS - Windows 10 64bit

Original OS - Windows 7 Premium Home 64bit, full retail

[Sauron]

Have you installed or changed anything right before this behaviour started? Did you make sure nothing is overheating? When memory usage spikes did you check task manager to see what was using the memory?

[miniahobbie]

Have you installed or changed anything right before this behaviour started? Did you make sure nothing is overheating? When memory usage spikes did you check task manager to see what was using the memory?

Have you installed or changed anything right before this behaviour started? - Nope

Did you make sure nothing is overheating? - Yep, everything is well within the limits

When memory usage spikes did you check task manager to see what was using the memory? - It's mostly csgo when it is open, after that nothing really stands out.. mostly chrome, skype, steam and system applications.

 

I've been away for 10 days recently, so I haven't installed or downloaded anything... everything is up-to-date... shrugs

[Sauron]

Have you installed or changed anything right before this behaviour started? - Nope

Did you make sure nothing is overheating? - Yep, everything is well within the limits

When memory usage spikes did you check task manager to see what was using the memory? - It's mostly csgo when it is open, after that nothing really stands out.. mostly chrome, skype, steam and system applications.

 

I've been away for 10 days recently, so I haven't installed or downloaded anything... everything is up-to-date... shrugs

 

Normally I'd think of a virus, but if you found nothing it's either extremely well hidden or something else. Another possibility is that while you were away your house suffered a power surge and the motherboard got damaged and is producing these results. Have you tried running a memtest to see if the ram is ok?

[miniahobbie]

Normally I'd think of a virus, but if you found nothing it's either extremely well hidden or something else. Another possibility is that while you were away your house suffered a power surge and the motherboard got damaged and is producing these results. Have you tried running a memtest to see if the ram is ok?

I turned off all the power in the home when I left, so I don't think a powersurge is at fault. I haven't run a memory test however, I shall do it now.

 

Edit: Test came out all clean, no results to show apparently.

[Sauron]

I turned off all the power in the home when I left, so I don't think a powersurge is at fault. I haven't run a memory test however, I shall do it now.

 

Edit: Test came out all clean, no results to show apparently.

 

Do you have a spare hdd? If you do, it would be a good idea to try doing a clean windows install on it and see if the problems are present with that install as well  If they are, it's probably a hardware problem - if they aren't, it's software.

[miniahobbie]

Do you have a spare hdd? If you do, it would be a good idea to try doing a clean windows install on it and see if the problems are present with that install as well  If they are, it's probably a hardware problem - if they aren't, it's software.

Well I went ahead and unplugged my current SSD and HDD and plugged in a spare 120GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD and installed Win7, skype, chrome, steam and csgo. I updated to latest drivers and tried to make the system freeze on purpose to see if the problem followed and it didn't. I went ahead and plugged my SSD and HDD back in and I was no-longer experiencing random freezing... guess it was its time of the month.

[Sauron]

Well I went ahead and unplugged my current SSD and HDD and plugged in a spare 120GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD and installed Win7, skype, chrome, steam and csgo. I updated to latest drivers and tried to make the system freeze on purpose to see if the problem followed and it didn't. I went ahead and plugged my SSD and HDD back in and I was no-longer experiencing random freezing... guess it was its time of the month.

 

strange. oh well