Any help appreciated, windows constantly stuttering, freezing and eventually crashing to a hard shutdown.

Curtis vincent

Curtis vincent

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So I was playing the battlefield 6 beta, I went to update my corsair Icue drivers in the background and the whole system blue screened and it seemed to have corrupted windows. Sometimes it would load back up sometimes it would just blue screen again.
Tried doing a repair using a USB boot drive with a windows installer on. Didn't work. Whenever I would get back in to windows the stuttering would be unbearable. I have 4 Nvme ssds so I was able to get majority of the important data off of the C drive before it seems to have gone kaput. Can't see it in bios now or if I go to do a fresh install. I tried a fresh install using a partition on one of my other drives, but within minutes it started behaving exactly the same way, constant freezing and micro stutter even at idle.
My system is a custom build, 14900k, z690 Aorus Xtreme board, 96gb Gskill TridentZ 6400 CL 32, RTX 5090, 9x corsair QX120 fans. Any ideas, I've troubleshooted a lot and have been tearing my hair out. Its so bad the system is practically unusable. Minded just to do a CPU motherboard upgrade to AMD, been thinking about it anyway.
 
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This would be my first suspect. But first the basics: does the PC work in Safe Mode? Does it work if you remove the 5090? Does it work if you run from a bootable USB? Have you checked the thermal paste? Is your cooling loop actually working?
 
Twinz said:
Windows 11 has an issue with one of the recent updates that can result in corrupted drives:
www.neowin.net

Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data

The latest Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday update is causing SSDs and HDDs to reportedly break with chances of data corruption as well.
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Oh fantastic.:D Is it possible to roll those updates back? not sure if thats possible on a fresh install as it will probably just keep it fully up to date.
 
Quartz said:
This would be my first suspect. But first the basics: does the PC work in Safe Mode? Does it work if you remove the 5090? Does it work if you run from a bootable USB? Have you checked the thermal paste? Is your cooling loop actually working?
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Paste is good, temps are all okay. Its a custom loop, not had any real hint of issues till yesterday, It was a pretty cool day yesterday and my system has had days running at far higher temps this summer. Will try taking out the 5090 and see what happens. Need to fish out a cable though as my board has thunderbolt but no normal display out like HDMI or DP

Tried safe mode, seems to work with no stuttering, I can also see the old C drive (the one I thought was gone) in disk management, says its working fine but just can't open it to view any of the files.
 
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Well I left the room for 10 minutes and even in safe mode it black screened and was still on, had to hard restart
Edit: did DDU in safe mode, no stutters or anything even when I went back in to windows normally. Reinstalled Nvidia drivers and it worked in battlefield for about 3 minutes until I toggled 240hz on my display settings and then it went back to stuttering again
 
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Have you been using the latest BIOS for the motherboard, everything all stock setting in the bios for the RAM to eliminate that.

If your power supply is not shot then it may be your CPU and if that has hit the point of no return then there's nothing you can do apart from maybe lowering the all core clocks down and if that doesnt work one has to down all core clocks and also play about with the voltage usually to increase it a little to stabilise it.

Is your system running like the CPU Framechasers recieved from one of his supporters as it has degraded though he was able to make it stable but for how long it was not tested but it may help you in finding the issue. I can understand that people tend to not want to go messing about in the bios and playing with voltages.

 
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Have you been using the latest BIOS for the motherboard, everything all stock setting in the bios for the RAM to eliminate that.

If your power supply is not shot then it may be your CPU and if that has hit the point of no return then there's nothing you can do apart from maybe lowering the all core clocks down and if that doesnt work one has to down all core clocks and also play about with the voltage usually to increase it a little to stabilise it.

Is your system running like the CPU Framechasers recieved from one of his supporters as it has degraded though he was able to make it stable but for how long it was not tested but it may help you in finding the issue. I can understand that people tend to not want to go messing about in the bios and playing with voltages.

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I was using latest bios when it initially went wrong yep.

It seems like there’s something weird going on with Nvidia drivers though. If I DDU there’s no stuttering, latest Nvidia drivers instantly freeze and stutter, older ones seem okay, will take a look at the video though and tweak the CPU as well just in case
 
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Idk I’ve tweaked the CPU and dialed it right back. System still just feels a bit off doing anything. Occasional micro stutter and thing just not performing right. It’s fine until I install Nvidia drivers
 
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