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I'm guessing it's software problem
I'd guess it's a hardware problem.
Spinning hard drives? Are they close to failure?
This sounds like an I/O issue that then buggers everything else until it unblocks. But for it to affect most things sounds like something fundamental like the hard drive, or SSD, etc.
Ran SMART tools? Checked errors?
Velocio-
running off SSD so shouldn't be a disk spin problem
everything here looks OK
@graunch - i haven't looked extensively (cause the system freezes so I don't expect to see anything useful) but also because it happens when i'm browsing and when I'm playing games. Resource use doesn't seem to factor into it.
@aggi - i haven't. My plan was to try and fix or rule out a hardware issue then fresh install of windows to see if that fixes it...
gillies
can anyone give me some troubleshooting pointers?
My pc freezes about 10 times per hour, for anywhere between 5 and 25 seconds. Audio (if it's playing) will sometimes continue (and sometimes not) but everything else stops and the system is completely unresponsive. After this it goes back to normal.
System temps are fine.(40c CPU temp)
Memtest reports no errors
Drivers are up to date.
I'm guessing it's software problem but i don't really know what else to try. Any advice?