Windows 10: Laptop freezes randomly - ruled out a hardware issue. Any ideas?

So one day I'm using my laptop and it just starts freezing out of nowhere. It's not a hardware issue - I know this because I've replaced the RAM and SSD thinking that would be the issue, but it wasn't. I also tried booting Ubuntu from USB and it ran fine, so this is something windows related. I've also clean re-installed windows so it's no malware issue either. Every time it freezes, I have to force shut down and restart, only for it to freeze again after running for like 1 minute, rendering the computer unusable under Windows 10. I'm out of ideas.

Specs: i7-6700HQ GTX 950M 500 GB WD Blue NVME SSD 16 GB DDR4 RAM 1 TB WD black hard drive

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Windows 10 freezes randomly

I had already tried turning off fast startup, to no avail.
Will look at the list you provided, thanks. Hard to do when computer freezes on the Windows loading screen though. *Biggrin

I had tried that as well... no result.

 

LAPTOP FREEZES RANDOMLY

Hello Community,

As my title says, my laptop freezes randomly.

I have tried so many ways, but didn't go well.

The laptop freezes randomly, I can't do anything about it except force it to shut down by long pressing the power button.

Can't put it to sleep, can't use the crtl+alt+del, nothing.

Could it be a hardware problem?

Very frustrated with it freezing up on me randomly, and I believe it hurts the computer too with force shut down,

please help!

Thank you!

 

Windows 10 freezes randomly


Turning off fast startup helped with this issue for another user on a different forum. For newbies, see steps Windows 10 Freezes Randomly.