Which part of my PC is failing?
Which part of my PC is failing?
Lately my PC has been freezing sporadically. Not freezing completely, as I can still move my mouse, videos or music continue playing and window animations still function, but whenever I try to open a new page or folder it doesn't do anything. Sometimes it last for 5 seconds, sometimes for 5 minutes. Then all the actions I tried to do while frozen suddenly happen all at once. It even happens when trying to boot sometimes.
I checked my SSD SMART and it's fine, I performed a RAM health check and it's fine. I don't know how to check if it's my CPU, so it could be that. What can I do?
My specs:
- CPU: Ryzen 7 1800X
- GPU: GTX 1070
- RAM: 2x8GB 2133MHz
- SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 1TB
- OS: Windows 11 Education
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I know you said that you checked the health of your SSD, but did you use the manufacturer's program to do so? I find SMART tables aren't nearly as accurate for solid state drives as they are for spindle drives.
It's unlikely that it's the CPU. I recommend, if you're able, to grab a copy of Parted Magic and boot into that live environment to see if the issue persists. Any live distro will work but I highly recommend PM since it is packaged for troubleshooting.
I just downloaded Samsung's software but it can't run diagnostics for my SSD (850 EVO). It also says "Good" for Drive Health but I suspect that's SMART as well.