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X570, 3070, 64 gig, 5900X, older 1K pwr. supply. No OC.
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Recently when booting to desktop the desktop will freeze, no ctl alt del, no mouse. Frozen. I had to hold down pwr button to reboot and that works every time. The frequency, maybe one plus a week seems to be increasing. I can do the whole strip it down procedure but am hoping not to go weeks adding back one component at a time by waiting up to a week for each pass. I know that stripping it could isolate it to very few components but I wanted to check here first. Lazy shortcuts preferred.
 
Did you try:
1. Open an admin command prompt and run this: sfc /scannow
2. Did you look at your Event Viewer for errors? That will give you a clue to what might be happening.
3. Could be RAM: check it with a MEMTEST86 boot USB.
 
Executioner said:
Did you try:
1. Open an admin command prompt and run this: sfc /scannow
2. Did you look at your Event Viewer for errors? That will give you a clue to what might be happening.
3. Could be RAM: check it with a MEMTEST86 boot USB.
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I am going to follow exactly, 1, 2 3, and follow up. Thanks for helping.
 
narsbars said:
Are you paying?
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no, you are. or youre going to have to start troubleshooting instead of us guessing what youve actually tried, other than just "turning it off and back on again"...
i would suggest you start by disconnecting everything that isnt vital to it booting, ie external peripherals extra drives etc., at the minimum.
 
pendragon1 said:
no, you are. or youre going to have to start troubleshooting instead of us guessing what youve actually tried, other than just "turning it off and back on again"...
i would suggest you start by disconnecting everything that isnt vital to it booting, ie external peripherals extra drives etc., at the minimum.
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I am looking for shortcuts due to the fact this only happens rarely. I could be weeks doing this step by step at a week or more per step. Pendragon reminded me of all the steps I should have been trying first and so far has found some errors that have been corrected. If this happened every day it would have been far easier but Pendragon's ideas don't put me out of service. New would be nice but winning the Powerball would make it affordable.
 
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