I’ve been dealing with a strange issue over the last week or so. Apologies for the lengthy explanation.
Initially noticed after exiting a League of legends game, my windows explorer was no longer responding. I could not move any windows, or click on any options, but I am able to still alt+tab along with open programs through the windows key.
Restarting explorer through task manager does nothing. Weirdly enough, turning off and on my keyboard/mouse would occasionally give me control over the top window.
This issue continues to occur if restart, and will occasionally occur on a cold boot, but I can usually get explorer to work for a period of time shutting fully down and back on.
After going through all the steps I can think of and find online. I’ve updated my drivers, I’ve updated my bios, ran SFC and DISM, memtest, nothing comes up as an issue.
Last night I did a clean install of Windows 11 on my Gen4 WD NVME, downloaded all security updates, downloaded and installed latest GPU driver.
System seemed to be stable while idle with 0 issues. Restarted multiple times, shutdown and back on, all booting back to a responsive system.
I decided to plug my gen 3 Samsung NVME back in to start installing a few programs, only for Explorer to then again begin to freeze the same way. Huzzah! The drive must be the issue yeah? Well, I unplugged the Samsung drive, booted my system only to be frozen right from the get go.
I’m at a COMPLETE loss. This system has been stable for the last year without really any issues.
Temperatures for the CPU and GPU all seem normal (idle 30-40c typically).
Any suggestions would be greatly welcomed.
My next thought is to do another Windows install and do more stress testing without plugging in my Samsung drive?
Then potentially swapping out the motherboard?
Windows 22H2(build 22622.2283)
Specs
13700k w/contact frame
360mm AIO
Asus rog z690-E
Corsair Vengence DDR5 CL6000
ROG strix 3090 oc
WD black SN850x nvme
Samsung 970 evo plus nvme
Initially noticed after exiting a League of legends game, my windows explorer was no longer responding. I could not move any windows, or click on any options, but I am able to still alt+tab along with open programs through the windows key.
Restarting explorer through task manager does nothing. Weirdly enough, turning off and on my keyboard/mouse would occasionally give me control over the top window.
This issue continues to occur if restart, and will occasionally occur on a cold boot, but I can usually get explorer to work for a period of time shutting fully down and back on.
After going through all the steps I can think of and find online. I’ve updated my drivers, I’ve updated my bios, ran SFC and DISM, memtest, nothing comes up as an issue.
Last night I did a clean install of Windows 11 on my Gen4 WD NVME, downloaded all security updates, downloaded and installed latest GPU driver.
System seemed to be stable while idle with 0 issues. Restarted multiple times, shutdown and back on, all booting back to a responsive system.
I decided to plug my gen 3 Samsung NVME back in to start installing a few programs, only for Explorer to then again begin to freeze the same way. Huzzah! The drive must be the issue yeah? Well, I unplugged the Samsung drive, booted my system only to be frozen right from the get go.
I’m at a COMPLETE loss. This system has been stable for the last year without really any issues.
Temperatures for the CPU and GPU all seem normal (idle 30-40c typically).
Any suggestions would be greatly welcomed.
My next thought is to do another Windows install and do more stress testing without plugging in my Samsung drive?
Then potentially swapping out the motherboard?
Windows 22H2(build 22622.2283)
Specs
13700k w/contact frame
360mm AIO
Asus rog z690-E
Corsair Vengence DDR5 CL6000
ROG strix 3090 oc
WD black SN850x nvme
Samsung 970 evo plus nvme
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 11
