Windows 10: Windows 10 freezes randomly

Why would Micro$oft release an OS in such a broken state? Seems that they rushed it out and hoped for the best.

 

Have had some what of the same issue though not as often as some of the rest. Windows 10 all programs stop responding, then mouse and keyboard input locks up as well. What's odd is sound still plays normally (ie when I am playing music, continues as if nothing has happened).

Has only happened to me twice now, but a little surprised it has at all as I was running the tech preview fine a few months ago on the same hardware.

Specs:
Windows 10 Pro 10.0.10240 x64
i7 5930K
MSI X99S
EVGA GTX 980
Corsair 16GB Quad Channel
Intel 1GB SSD
Water cooled CPU/GPU

I am going to go through my event logs and see what I can find. Will update when I know more.

 

You are correct. My external USB3 drives (connected through the USB SATA interface) didn't work in early builds. They worked in 10041 but RTM they again fail (explorer hangs and so on). I guess they are still working on it.

 

Quick update:
I just noticed that both times it happened, there was pending updates. Update after hard power cycle from first freeze:
Cumulative Update for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3081424)

And after the second time:
Cumulative Update for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3081436)
Security Update for Internet Explorer Flash Player for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3087916)

As a side note, both times my Nvidia driver nvlddmkm crashed on start up. Will look in to this a little further.

 

Hello all... I'm gonna throw my hat into this. I had exactly the same issue with one of my 3 Win 10 machines today - Silverlight. Uninstalled it and it now seems fine.

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EDIT: After writing that I found Silverlight to be the issue... I may have been wrong. Even though things really sped up afterwards, it took all of 2 more weeks for the guilty party to finally announce themselves. I had a faulty HDD. So, if suspect, have a look at the HDD as well.

I hope I didn't steer too many in the wrong direction.

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Same problem here, but not entirely random - can happen anytime, but happens frequently when I close a game, whether online or locally hosted. Totally freezes, no response to mouse or keyboard. Leave it for 10 minutes, nothing changes - hard restart is required. Event Viewer shows nothing. Updated drivers, still happens. Cleanup procedure describe earlier in this thread found no problems.

I'm thinking just have to wait for MS to fix this, or roll back to previous OS version. If anybody has anything that would help, though, I'd like to hear it.

 

I join the club *Confused

Asus G73

 

Welcome! lol. Does your PC have a single HDD or multiple? I'm thinking this particular 'explorer' bug affects machines with multiple HDDs in them (possibly). If I'm right I wonder what would happen if did the upgrade with just your main HDD connected and then see if there was an issue. If not then connect the other HDDs back up and again see if the issue then arises. I'm just clutching at straws really. If I get some time I will do this on my PC and report the results.

 

2 with Raid 0.

( I also own a G75. This one does not freeze, but crashes randomly ( quite often ). 1 SSD & 1 HD. *Sick )

 

As for me, it freezes whether or not my USB drive is connected.

 

Signed up to say I'm in the same boat. It's been smooth sailing since launch but started going wonky today. It's been acting exactly as you described dagnabbit.

 

Hi, I have the same problem - Windows support, of course, could not help. This is my config:

ASUS N73JQ, Intel i7 Q740, Nvidia GT 425M. I added Corsair SSD F90 as second drive when I bought the laptop.

Windows 7 worked flawlessly but Win 10 freezes in the same way - sometimes it freezes on user login, sometimes after several minutes and sometimes it works for several hours without any freeze. I`ve tried clear reinstall of Win10 on formatted primary HDD, but it froze even before I installed anything. It also froze in safe mode. It froze with Nvidia last drivers (355.60), also with drivers from 29.7. and with older drivers from default Microsoft installation too. I`ve tried upgrading my BIOS to latest version, but didn`t help neither.

I`ve also tried to physically disconnect my secondary drive - Corsair SSD - it seems to work so far (2 hours), but it also might be a case when it doesn`t freeze for several hours and it will tomorrow on startup. Anyway, if disconnecting secondary drive works for someone else, this might be temporary solution. Edit: Nevermind, it froze after restart...

What do you mean by explorer bug? Where can I find more info about this or a solution? Thank you

 

Hey everyone !

Just pitching my tent here as I've just run into the same issues. I'm not sure what caused it, but thats 2 freezes today... I've uninstalled the latest batch of updates just in case.

I read somewhere that increasing the virtual memory could help. Any feedback on that ? I'm not sure how to properly dimension it so I havent tried yet...

I'd rather not go back to 8.1 as I was really starting to like Win10...

 

I used: Fix: Start Menu Cortana not Opening in Windows 10 this morning and it hasn't hung since. I was able to get to the task manager when things froze up one time and saw the status for Windows Shell Experience Host process was "Not Responding."

Not sure if this will solve everyone else's problem but I thought I'd run this by y'all since it worked for me.

 

Let us know if it stays fixed.