Windows 10: Windows 11 random freezing/hanging, forcing hard reset

I recently upgraded most parts of my PC with brand new parts motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM... basically everything except the PSU, two storage drives, and the peripherals, and also installed Windows 11 on it. Since then, I've had random system hang-ups that have impeded a lot of my work.When it happens, basically my PC will stop responding to most mouse clicks. I'll be able to move the cursor, scroll and click on things, but clicking buttons like trying to hit the "End Task" button in the task manager won't do anything and I'm forced to hard reset. It has happened several times when I've been

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Random hang/lock/freezing (sort of)


I have read a thread or five via a Google search about random freezing with Windows 10, but none of their symptoms match mine, so I thought I'd post a new thread.

I'm getting random system freezes or hangs which prevent me from opening apps or programs and clicking on the task bar (or even getting it to come out of auto-hide). When it's happened before, I've left the system alone for a while but it never recovers.
If it is of any consequence, things go a bit quieter when this happens and the normal noise that I assume is from the hard drive stops. There's no clicking or anything alarming either before or after the freeze.

When it hangs, what I can still do is:

• Move the mouse
• Move already open windows around, snap to full screen or to the side
• Get the right click menu on the desktop, although it appears verrrrry slowly and nothing can be clicked on it when it appears
• Ctrl-alt-delete and the regular screen pops up
• Open the task manager and the subsequent performance tab which shows no movement across all the graphs

The only thing left to do is a hard restart as, even though the ctrl-alt-del screen still comes up, when I restart via this, it just loops forever with 'Restarting' on the screen.

What I did to get to where I am:

• Installed the Windows 10 upgrade from 8.1 via the Microsoft Win10 media creation tool
• Used the media creation tool to burn a USB stick .iso
• Downloaded and ran a program (Lollipop key finder or something) to find my new Win10 key
• Clean install from my .iso and my new Win 10 key
• Experienced the problem very often (every 15 minutes or so) with a completely fresh install
• Thought it might be hard drive related, so I re-seated my hard drive connectors on my motherboard
• Did a RAM diagnostic, no problems
• Defragmented HDD
• Problem is still present but only every couple of hours now. Nothing specific appears to trigger it, but at least I've been able to install the programs that I regularly use.

I've also done the recommended steps in this thread, to no avail. Disk health is good, no store corruption detected/obvious errors/noises. I even gave things a monthly blast with compressed air whilst re-seating the hard drives but now I'm at a loss.

Any ideas would be appreciated. *Huh

 

Windows 10 random freeze

Hi,

Did you make any changes recently to the computer which may have led to random freeze?

Random hangs are often due to damage to the Windows configuration, faulty hardware, or malware. However, because this behavior is random, it can be especially difficult to identify the proper cause.

Random hangs can also be caused by other faulty hardware. Consult with your PC manufacturer to run available hardware diagnostics. This could include:

• PC diagnostics that test the integrity of the core PC devices, such as the processor fans and cooling system
• Video and display diagnostics
• Additional hard drive diagnostics

I would request you to perform SFC scan(if you have not tried it) and then check if it helps.

System File Checker is a utility in Windows that allows users to
scan for corruptions in Windows system files and restore corrupted files.

To know about SFC and to perform a SFC Scan, please refer to the below link:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929833

Note: Steps mentioned for Windows 8/8.1, will work fine with Windows 10.

Please revert if you still face the random hang.

Thank you.

 

Windows hangs for a long time randomly forcing hard reset

Hello. Just recently I've been receiving long hangs after a random amount of time on my laptop that is an inspiron 3537 and these usually take a long time to resolve and i usually just end up hard resetting. I've located the source of the problem and it is my hard drive and I have been receiving the errors " The device, /device/harddisk0/DR0, has a bad block." and "Reset to device, /device/RaidPort0, was issued." during or before the hang. I haven't been running any antivirus after receiving these hangs and thought this would be solve the problem but it has accomplished nothing. How can i resolve this problem? thanks i attached my specs