Need HELP! with freezing windows 10

[G9XFTW]

Specs: AMD R5 2600

            B450M board

            8gb corsair ram stick

            1x 64gb Transcend SSD

            1x 1tb HDD

            1x 320gb HDD

            GTX 1060

 

My windows PC has been freezing consistently since pretty much first assembly in early september. The nature of the freeze is temporary (about 10 secs avg ~ 30 secs max). The screen freezes and then things resume and function normally a while later, however I can move the mouse cursor and also if there was any audio playing in the background it will play normally without any glitches during freeze. Firefox, fortnite and ARK survival(both unreal engine games)  noticeably the worst since the freeze occurrences are highest in those apps/ games. 

I can remember a few occasions where the windows "USB plugged in" and "removed" chimes played when the freeze stopped. 

Other apps that freeze are Premiere Vivaldi browser, pretty much everything. But previously mentioned apps have the highest frequency of freezing.

 

I have an old dvd of windows so installed from that which got updated to 1803 and now 1809. It freezes across all builds. Ran memtest86 pro too and the stick got no errors over 5 passes + separate test of another 2 passes. Excluded hammer test for some reason.

 

Heres another thread regarding the same issue from the start of issue.

 

 

 

[Shreyas1]

Could you maybe try with a different cable or a different monitor to see if the issue still persists? It could be one of those two.

[Airdragonz]

Could be graphics related. Try nuking and reinstalling your gpu drivers. 

[G9XFTW]

18 hours ago, Shreyas1 said:

Could you maybe try with a different cable or a different monitor to see if the issue still persists? It could be one of those two.

Yes. Issue persists. Even used a 3rd gpu, NVIDIA GS7100 on vga. Same issue.

[G9XFTW]

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[G9XFTW]

AHCI link power management needs to be set to active.