PC constantly freezing

[VPA-NI]

Hi guys - I want to pick your brains please.

I have an Asus CM 6730 series desktop (purchased August 2013) which initially had Windows 8, upgraded to Windows 8.1 and then finally Windows 10.

I would say since the Win 8.1 upgrade onwards I have been experiencing hanging/freezing of my PC which can only be resolved by a hard reboot. It seemed to be operating okay for a while but this week it has been freezing 4/5 times a day!!!

I have carried out the following
sfc /scan now - no errors
chkdsk - no errors
Microsoft Office Diagnostics - 1 repair made
Windows Memory Diagnostic tool - no errors
Intel Driver update - one update found but then it said I had more up-to-date ones already so didn't go through with the installation.
No warnings on the Drivers menu

I have created an Event Viewer report from this mornings freezes but I can't see how to attach it? I can email it if anyone has the time to look at it.

There are several Warnings and Errors. The one Critical relates to me powering done the unit.

Warnings
Device Setup Manager
Kernel-Pnp
disk

Error
Service Control Manager
Distributed COM
VSS
Device Set-up Manager

Warnings
Tcpip
Device Setup Manager
Kernel-Pnp

Error
Eventlog

Critical
Kernel-Power

Error
Eventlog

Warning
disk

Error
atapi
App Model-Runtime
Device Set-up Manager
Distributed COM

Warning
Time-Service

I just wondered if any of you could point me in the right direction for what to do next - thanks.

 

[zigojacko]

I just wondered if any of you could point me in the right direction for what to do next - thanks.

Sure. Downgrade to Windows 7.

You're welcome (sorry)

 

[Scalloway]

Does there seem to be any particular trigger for freezing?

One thing I would suggest is checking the power supply is properly pushed in. I had a problem with an XP machine that locked up regularly and it stopped when I pushed the power supply cable fully into the box.

 

[Business-Products.Online]

If it is Freezing, you could try wrapping in a blanket to warm up,

Sorry Christmas humour.

Have you checked that your divers are okay for windows 10.

Hope you get it sorted

Gew

 

[Opinion87]

Anti-virus and anti-spyware? I use AVG (free) and Spybot Search & Destroy (free)

 

[Benjie_P]

Try looking at the Task Manager when it's not freezing yet and see if you can find out some processes that is consuming too much resources. Otherwise if you can't figure it out you may need to have it checked by a computer technician.

 

[Page]

Left of field

Consider how much time it is costing you

Buy new

I put up with an an aging desktop some years back
Waiting for a restart etc

I eventually bought new and the time saved meant it paid for itself in no time

What you can do is buy new - run both until you are happy - then reinstall the second your currnet machine

I run two machines side by side - partly from the days of the aging desktop and having a laptop also to be getting on with stuff while the freeze and restarts were dealt with
And it does up productivity

 

[rmmfree]

It could be a hardware problem but it's difficult to know without seeing it. As others said before I think that you could take your computer to a technician to fix it.
Regards.

 

[lyonsdown]

Yes, hard to know without seeing it. But Windows 8 and 10 have serious freezing (and other ) problems so downgrade to windows 7 might sort it.
Or try different RAM and/or different hard drive, as they are cheap enough.Could be drive not spinning correctly.