Windows 10: Getting random lockups on Windows 10

This is going to be a doozy. I have a phantom bug in my computer that causes random lockups in Windows 10. It makes it to where I cannot ctrl+alt+delete out of it and I have no choice but to do a hard shut down. I have no idea what triggers it, so there is no way I can reproduce the error. It happens maybe four times a week. Is there anything I can post to help? I don't want my computer to break from a ghost bug.

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Random Lockups

any1 got ant ideas why i would suddenly be getting random lockups in games and in windows?

it just freezes and i cant even use the reset button,i have to press the power button to get out of it.
temps seem ok around 38 - 42c idle and mid 50s under load ,when it locks it games theres no looping sound or anything ,just a frozen screen.

most of the pc was bought and built last August ,with the exceptions of the PSU + HD`s
its been running at the spec listed since then and ive had nps until now

any help would be appreciated.

if any more info is needed just ask.

 

Random Freezes & Lockups. SSD Issue??

Okay - so an update.

PC woke up sometime during the night between 01:50 and 04:00 (I woke to go to the toilet at 4am and the PC was on. A simple tap of the on/off button put it back to sleep).

As per the advice from steve108 in this post on this link https://www.hellotech.com/blog/why-does-my-computer-keep-waking-from-sleep-mode I followed the steps under the section 'How to Find Out What’s Causing Your Computer to Wake Up'

I ran powercfg from an elevated command prompt.

powercfg/lastawake was no help as it showed the power button which I used to turn the pc on this morning (!)

If this happens again (pc wakes from sleep), I'll have to leave it on and then run the powercfg/lastawake command

powercfg/waketimers is puzzling as it shows the hard disk volume 2 as the culprit.

I have no idea what 'StartMenuExperienceHost' is but it looks like ONG's suggestion of looking in the Startup programs and Background Apps may bear fruit.

powercfg -devicequery wake_armed shows two entries for both the mouse and keyboard. Both now disabled.

Command Window:





Startup Programs/Apps as follows:





I'm thinking I don't need the following to be enabled?

Adobe Gamma Loader
Apple Push
Cortana
Eraser
Intel Driver and Support Assistant
Quick Time Task

However some advice/confirmation would be great.

CDA Server (Part of Samsung Easy Printer Manager) for a wireless networked AiO Printer and as such should be running? Apparently, an obsolete or defective version of CDASrv.exe can cause problems

There were 31 'Background Apps' that were turned ON.

List follows:





Apart from, perhaps, Windows Security and maybe iTunes, is there any reason for any of these to be on?

For example, I don't use One Note, Skype nor the Xbox Game Bar (I'm not a gamer) so I'm confident in turning those off (inded I already have).

Are there any that I really NEED to be running in the background - e.g Get Help and Office?

At the moment, Get Help and Office, Settings, Windows Security and iTunes are the only ones that I have leftswitched on.

Help/suggestions as to whether (or not) I need these apps running in the background are most welcome.

Thanks to all that have offered help and suggestions so far, it is much appreciated.

Art

 

random lockups

Basically for the past 10 days I've been getting random lockups now and then while playing World of Warcraft or while I am in Firefox. I will be on firefox and suddenly it will lockup and say not responding and soon after I can't do anything on the rest of my PC.. only my pointer will move.

My proc is at stock and all.. At first I thought it was my sound drivers for WoW because there were issues with the card and the game but I reinstalled from 2 different copies of Win7 and now im on Win XP and am still getting the problem.

Could this be a voltage problem? In begginign to think perhaps my BIOS settings got reset and possibly my RAM is not getting enough voltage?

Otherwise I'm thinking it is RAM or the MOBO.. guessing if it was the HD the whole thing would of gone out by now..