Windows 10: Windows 10 Issue - Boots fine and works for 2 mins, then freezes

Specs:
AMD FX-8350 @ 4.3GHz
16GB RAM
GTX 970 4GB
120GB SSD
1TB HDD

So I have had an earlier build of Windows 10 TP on my system installed onto my SSD and I was using that as my daily driver for about a month or so. It worked great and I was loving the new features! However, there was an update to build 10041 that failed multiple times trying to install, and eventually screwed itself up to the point where I had to do a fresh install. After doing a fresh install of 10041, I reinstalled all my programs and everything was wroking just fine in the first boot. However, after rebooting a couple of times, I'm noticing some problems. I can login and go to my desktop just fine and everything works perfectly for about 30seconds to 2 minutes, and then after that things go haywire. Start menu won't work, the cortana search goes blank, explorer hangs, chrome freezes, windows updates will pause, and my pc just becomes unusable and I have to manually reboot. After doing this many times and troublshooting (disabling startup programs/services, etc) Safe mode would open up saying it had an "unknown hard error" when I tried to boot into it. I had to reinstall again. This time, I'm running on build 10049 and it's doing exactly the same thing as before. Anybody have any suggestions? I'm about to just reinstall my windows 7 again.*Mad

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Windows 10 works fine, then eventually freezes

Hello,

Thank you for providing a detailed information on your issue. I appreciate the step-by-step troubleshooting and the pains you took to resolve your issue. However, there are a few more steps that we can try to fix the issue permanently.

As per the issue description your computer freezes. The issue could be if there is some system file corruption or there is some third party conflict.

Let’s boot the computer in Safe Mode and check if issue reappears. Safe mode is a diagnostic mode that starts your computer in a limited state. Only the basic files and drivers necessary to run Windows are started. The words
Safe Mode appear in the corners of your monitor to identify which Windows mode you’re using. You may refer to the article mentioned below to boot the computer in safe mode.

Change startup settings in Windows 10

If computer works fine in safe mode then try to perform clean boot and see if it brings any difference.

Putting your system in Clean Boot state helps in identifying if any third party applications or startup items are causing the issue. You need to follow the steps from the article mentioned below to perform a Clean Boot.



How to perform a clean boot in Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135/en-us

Note: Refer "How to reset the computer to start normally after clean boot troubleshooting" to reset the computer to start as normal after troubleshooting.

Do keep us updated.

Regards,

 

Windows 10 works fine, then eventually freezes

Since I updated my computer to Windows 10, everything works fine for a while, then after some number of hours of using the computer, the whole computer will freeze and become completely unresponsive to anything and the only solution
is to hard reboot. Before I updated I did everything Sony recommended including software updates to prepare for Windows 10, updated BIOS, etc.

My machine: Sony Vaio SVE14A390X

Processor: Intel Core i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.20GHz

Installed memory: 8GB

64-bit OS, x64-based processor

My Windows build: 10.0.10586.0

Things I have tried so far:

Checked Windows update (no updates available)

Checked Vaio update (no updates available)

Checked for driver updates (no updates available, although "Programmable interrupt controller" and "system timer" have no drivers at all, no available updates, and disabling/re-enabling did nothing)

sfc/scannow (found no issues)

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth (scan found no issues, completed successfully)

Please help! I think I'm outside the window to revert to Windows 8.1 at this point.

 

Check this forum for AMD graphics issues and see:
http://forums.amd.com/game/messagevi...hreadid=183761

Rich

Edit: Link for Win10 forum: AMD working on drivers for Windows 10 preview builds

Edit #2: Whoops! Missed you are using NVidia