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[Win 7] Computer is freezing shortly after start up.

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IrvingJanis

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Hello, I've been having a minor issue the last couple of weeks. Five or ten minutes after first starting up my computer it will freeze. Sometimes if I wait a while, ten minutes or so, it sorts itself out but more often than not it gets stuck there and I end up doing a hard restart. The funny thing is that usually after one restart (two at worst) it runs fine from then on. The same is true for the times it works itself out with a little time on the first go around. I'm guessing it must be related to something that runs at start up given the way it's behaving.


I've already tried a few things to sort it out myself but I'm at a bit of a loss for what to try now. I have used event viewer to look for errors and while I did find some I was able to resolve them with no change to my problem. I've run chkdsk and sfc/ scannow, neither finding any issues. I've run Malwarebytes with nothing detected. I cut down what runs at start up and stopped whatever services I knew were safe to do so in system configuration. I've updated my drivers. It's possible I'm forgetting something but those are the things I know I attempted.


Any ideas on what I might do to fix the problem would be appreciated. It's just an annoyance at the moment but I'd rather not leave it like it is if I can help it. Thanks.
 
Power on the computer and tap the F8 key about once per second until you come to the Advanced boot menu. Select Safe Mode with Networking and press enter. Once Safe Mode starts up, see if you are having any of the same problems. Try booting to Safe Mode a few times. If the computer runs OK, you have a program that starts up with Windows that's most likely causing the issue.
 
Thanks for the replies. It a took me a while to test the RAM and HDD which did lead to me finding out it was hardware related. I actually had run the computer in safe mode quite a bit while trying to work out the issue but it never presented then for whatever reason. I'm fairly certain my issue is resolved now and again appreciate the help.
 

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