The Windows 11 PC began acting very poorly without any obvious reason.
The Windows 11 PC began acting very poorly without any obvious reason.
I rebooted my PC last night because it wasn't honoring my sleep and power-off settings for several days. When it started again, the performance was noticeably sluggish, resembling a Celeron 420 in Windows 10 with 4GB RAM and an ongoing update. Running hwinfo's sensors section caused the system to display bluescreens. The only unusual action I took before these problems was using powercfg to generate a SleepStudy, including a run from the command prompt since no GUI is available. The slowness continued after multiple restarts, disappearing only in safe mode. Steps I've tried so far: swapped RAM and graphics drivers several times, changed the GPU to a GTX 1060 (the 3060 Ti worked fine elsewhere), ran sfc /scannow which detected errors and repaired them over an hour, checked Cinebench R15 results, which were slightly lower than before, rolled back the latest Windows update even though it was two weeks ago. Specific recurring issues: HWInfo sensors view showed bluescreens, GTA5 ran at about 30fps under similar conditions, frame pacing seemed consistent, YouTube buffered every 60 frames, Apple Music stuttered in browser, Task Manager used around 6% CPU (usually 0.6-2%), and the search bar didn't function after restarting Explorer. Overall, it feels like the CPU is operating at a fraction of its true speed. Anyone have other ideas besides reinstalling Windows?
Specs: R7 3700X, B550, TUF 2x16, D4-3600, RTX 3060 Ti, 970 Evo Plus, 512GB drive.
It happened to me once; do you know if the CPU was overclocked? The problem disappeared within a few hours.
It remains consistent with PBO for more than a year. It was static OCed earlier, but an AGESA update required adjusting the voltage to achieve the same clock. Updated June 4, 2024 by Sukhoikip
Recent advice suggests using DISM, but it doesn’t match your image version and keeps failing due to missing source files. You’ll need to update DISM or configure an image that points to the correct files locally. Let me know how you’d like to proceed.
Have you considered running a virus scan? You might want to remove any apps you recently installed.
I haven’t made any changes lately, besides running a sleep study using powercfg. After talking to someone experienced in IT who’s been around for two decades about DISM issues, I think a fresh install would be the most effective solution.