System having hiccups

NunoLava1998 · November 24, 2018

Hello! About a week and a half ago, i upgraded my old Haswell i3 system to a new Ryzen 5 system. Recently however, it's been having some hiccups. Chrome, after 2-8 hours of extended usage, freezes for a few secs (5-10 secs, even the minimize, maximize and close buttons froze) then Chrome just closed. My SSD's SMART says that it's OK. Chrome also did disable Sync randomly when I booted it up today, however after logging in everything was fine, once again. It also said the disk needed to be checked, so I restarted it and it just went forward with no errors.

Do I have to reinstall Windows? This Windows installation shouldn't be old enough to cause problems at all (about 6 months). My system specs are in my signature (removed the OC however). I'm at stock settings (1.3V voltage). The highest voltage my chip's been is 1.55V (BIOS bug, I reset it to 1.3V in less than 5-10 minutes by taking out CMOS, waiting 1-2 mins and putting it back in).

What could be happening?

Semper · November 24, 2018

30 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

Hello! About a week and a half ago, i upgraded my old Haswell i3 system to a new Ryzen 5 system. Recently however, it's been having some hiccups. Chrome, after 2-8 hours of extended usage, freezes for a few secs (5-10 secs, even the minimize, maximize and close buttons froze) then Chrome just closed. My SSD's SMART says that it's OK. Chrome also did disable Sync randomly when I booted it up today, however after logging in everything was fine, once again. It also said the disk needed to be checked, so I restarted it and it just went forward with no errors.

Do I have to reinstall Windows? This Windows installation shouldn't be old enough to cause problems at all (about 6 months). My system specs are in my signature (removed the OC however). I'm at stock settings (1.3V voltage). The highest voltage my chip's been is 1.55V (BIOS bug, I reset it to 1.3V in less than 5-10 minutes by taking out CMOS, waiting 1-2 mins and putting it back in).

What could be happening?

Going from an Intel to an AMD platform, including the motherboard switch, is what likely would have caused this issue if it is directly related to switching platforms, not the age of the Windows install.

Even when switching from one motherboard model to another of the same platform, It's recommend that you do a fresh install so that compatibility issues are removed as a factor.

NunoLava1998 · November 24, 2018

Just now, Semper said:

Going from an Intel to an AMD platform, including the motherboard switch, is what likely would have caused this issue if it is directly related to switching platforms, not the age of the Windows install.

Even when switching from one motherboard model to another of the same platform, It's recommend that you do a fresh install so that compatibility issues are removed as a factor.

Alright. It was working fine for a week or so, then the issues started. Is that normal or not?

Semper · November 24, 2018

2 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

Alright. It was working fine for a week or so, then the issues started. Is that normal or not?

It wouldn't be unheard of.

At an honest level, i'm not the person to ask what causes these compatibility issues outside of usually being driver conflicts. I don't know the what's or why's behind what's actually happening. My IT studies were never on the software engineering side.