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Brand new Alienware Aurora R9, wiped with fresh install fully patched Win 10 Home. I installed only Chrome, nVidia GeForce Experience and up-to-date drivers, and one game, and started experiencing occasional freezes. I thought the machine had locked up and that perhaps I had corrupted something during a RegEdit session to change a stupid MS install option, so I re-wiped everything and re-installed.
This time around, I installed again the nVidia stuff, Chrome, but nothing else, no games, no apps. I didn't touch the registry and was very careful to fully patch and keep everything pristine and clean. Still, the freezes occurred. I waited for about 20-30 seconds to see if it was truly a lockup and the machine was eventually released back to me. It's almost as though I had encountered a severe lag spike which froze all the action and then managed to recover after 30-40 seconds. It happens only once or twice a night, and lasts for about 30-40 seconds or so, but is consistent since I did the install. No matter what app I'm in now, a game, the web, the freezes come.
It's a brand new rig, all diagnostics report clean health, no issues. What could be causing this? Thanks for any insights or suggestions.
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This time around, I installed again the nVidia stuff, Chrome, but nothing else, no games, no apps. I didn't touch the registry and was very careful to fully patch and keep everything pristine and clean. Still, the freezes occurred. I waited for about 20-30 seconds to see if it was truly a lockup and the machine was eventually released back to me. It's almost as though I had encountered a severe lag spike which froze all the action and then managed to recover after 30-40 seconds. It happens only once or twice a night, and lasts for about 30-40 seconds or so, but is consistent since I did the install. No matter what app I'm in now, a game, the web, the freezes come.
It's a brand new rig, all diagnostics report clean health, no issues. What could be causing this? Thanks for any insights or suggestions.
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