Startup suddenly lagging or freezing.
Startup suddenly lagging or freezing.
What's poppin forum. So, usually I have at least some ideas as to what's going wrong with my hardware, but I'm genuinely drawing a blank here. My computer is slow on startup, and this persists for a long time afterwards. This was a sudden change. I hope you can help me identify the issue! WINDOWS VERSION IS: WINDOWS 10 PRO - VERSION 1809 - BUILD 17763.253 Here's my system spec: CPU: Ryzen 7 1700 (3.875GHz @ 1.35v) MOBO: ASRock AB350 Pro4 RAM: 16GB Crucial 2400MHz (2733MHz @1.42v) GPU: Powercolor RX 580 8GB Red Devil CPU COOLER: Cooler Master Masterliquid 240 SSD: WD Blue 250GB M.2 2280 HDD 1: WD Black 1TB 7200RPM 3.5" HDD 2: WD Blue 1TB 5400RPM 2.5" PSU: Cooler Master 550W Elite V2 Case: Corsair 270R Issue: So let me describe in a little more detail. Before this occurred, I could boot up my computer, and do everything at lighting pace and my CPU usage would match the workload being put on it. So for example, booting into Windows wouldn't cause immense pressure, and browsing the web was pretty light, gaming was a good way to push the system usage, video editing/encoding would also push the CPU to it's limits. Normal behavior; you ask the CPU to do something, and it will operate according to the task it is assigned. The issue now is that I boot into the system, and it would seem that my CPU is pegged at 99% usage. And it is SO SLOW that even the cursor follows behind my actual mouse movements, it's jelly like. Opening up Task Manager is a 50/50 because it crashes half the time, and I barely got into the settings menu to see the build of Windows that I'm on. Context: I always put my computer to sleep rather than shutting it down, so yesterday I woke it back up because I wanted to try out Chrome Remote Desktop from my laptop to control my desktop (the system in question). So after waking up the system, I went over to my laptop and ran Chrome Remote Desktop. I did a couple of basic things on my Desktop (via my laptop); open up the web on my desktop, look at the file explorer, just mild stuff. So after I was done confirming that remote desktop worked properly, I went to open up the "Sleep" dialogue in the start menu on my desktop. This is when the Chrome Remote Desktop connection got very slow & choppy (I'm thinking it may have been my actual desktop). The desktop did however go into sleep mode. So later in the day, I go to wake up my desktop, only to find it acting funny. The login screen is somewhat unresponsive, and it takes me a little longer to type my pin in to login. I reach the desktop screen, only to be surprised by how slow everything has become. Task Manager is incredibly slow and sensitive, and doesn't refresh very often (like once every minute), but for what it's worth, I didn't see CPU usage drop below 99%. The system has been on for the past little while, and it's still acting the same. Slow, unresponsive and it sucks because I can't determine what's up. I've restarted the system one time through, and no change. Additional Information: I've had issues in the past with Ryzen overclocks, wherein you can set a frequency in BIOS, but in reality it you're actual frequency is much lower (for example 3.9GHz in BIOS but in reality you're running at 1.7GHz), and HWInfo64 can confirm that this IS NOT the case, it reads frequency @ ≈ 3.875GHz. Again according to HWInfo64, the system IS NOT overheating, the highest temp I saw TCtrl get to was 51°C. I tried to run JRT (Junkware Removal Tool), for the purpose of nuking any unnecessary processes, and that didn't seem to do much, still slow and unresponsive. While it would appear that JRT did manage to kill background processes, strangely enough it couldn't complete the system sweep, it crashed at the last phase. Moreover, JRT now acts sort of temperamental. Sometimes, I can just run it as per usual. Other times I'll get an error message and the program won't run. I am still somewhat skeptical about the "99% Usage" on the CPU for one reason. My PSU (the Cooler Master Elite V2), has a very sensitive fan curve. The fan will spin up audibly at very moderate load ( related post I made ). Task Manager reads (kinda sorta) 99% usage, but my PSU is next to silent? I'm not sure how true that 99% is. For some other Task Manager curiosities, certain processes will read at well below 10% total CPU usage, but be categorized as "Very High" power usage Also "System Interrupts" shows up in Task Manger very briefly every once and a while at 99% usage. As I'm writing this, I just witnessed a Bitdefender system scan stop working
Bitdefender is now proceeding independently, but it appears to be halted at 3%.
UPDATE: Looks like an update is available (KB4476976), I'm going to install and see what happens.
It seems Chrome remote desktop might be the issue. You could attempt to remove it and perform a complete system reset. I've experienced similar problems where restarting resolved the matter, especially with Win10 waking from sleep mode before programs loaded.
It looks like the problem might be related to an SO issue. Task manager running unevenly is common; try running chkdsk /f and check SSD health. Review event logs—high CPU usage from interrupts could indicate a failing device. Disconnect all connected devices temporarily. Consider using a live Linux distribution for better diagnostics, though it may slow things down. Reset your BIOS settings as well.
You're starting fresh after the update—see how it turns out! Let me know what you experience next.
I'm currently waiting on a restart (that's also taking a while), but once I get back to the desktop I'll give this stuff a good look at. Pardon my ignorance but what is "chkdsk /f"? I'm unfamiliar. Also when you say "devices failing" do you mean internal/external or both? And I'll get a live distro ready in the meantime, but my boot SSD is partitioned between Windows 10 and Ubuntu (although I haven't used it in a while). Would that be enough, or is the idea to isolate my drive?
interrupts work with both outside and inside components, chkdsk /f verifies the filesystem condition. If Ubuntu comes preinstalled, you can restart it and see if performance remains stable.