Windows 10: My PC periodically freezes in Windows 10

Hey Guys

I have an issue I have been so desperately trying to troubleshoot. Literally giving up soon. Please please please help if you have any ideas <3

ISSUE: My PC periodically freezes for either short bursts or needs a force shutdown.

SPECS: ASUS Rog Maximus hero mobo, i7 8700k, msi GTX1080 8gb graphics, 4x8gb corsair vengeance ram, 500gb m.2 drive (windows installed), 6tb harddrive, 750W thermaltake power

WHAT I'VE DONE:

- Clean install of all drivers (take them off, reinstall, update to
newest, several times). So it's not the drivers
- Malware/spyware clean, not even one file found
- Memory checked each ram stick
- Cleared all temp files
- unplugged all USB items and tried drivers again
- Tried to run chkdsk - it comes up with an error saying it can't
- Checked temperatures of hardware, everything is well below dangerous, no spikes, no throttling, hardware is working well from what I can see
- Tried to "reset my computer" and start a fresh install of windows to wipe it, comes up with error saying it can't do this no changes have been made
- Tried to restore from previous backups, same issue as above
- Tried to get the windows ISO on USB to "repair my pc" that way, same issue as above
- Tried to fresh install on secondary drive with windows to test if freezes still happen, I can't due to it being in the partition of the first drive and it freezes everytime I try change it

So... kill me? hahah

Thank so much if you have had a look

:)

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

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