Windows 10 New PC opens programs slowly and has a lot of lag issues

[Evan Horsley]

Recently just rebuilt my workstation PC to be a lot better for this school year (I'm an engineering student). My hardware is as follows:

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x CPU
AMD WX Radeon Pro 5100 GPU
Samsung 860 Evo 512gb SSD
2 WD 2tb HDD in RAID setup
ASUS Rog Strix B350-F motherboard
Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 16gb RAM
I also have a Corsair water CPU cooler. I believe my power supply is around 750 watts (can't remember exactly but I'll have to look).

When my computer first starts up, everything runs fine. Everything is lightning fast. But after a bit of doing stuff, everything slows WAYYYYY down. Minimal CPU and RAM usage, but opening programs takes forever, windows sometimes stops responding, and overall stuff doesn't go anywhere near as fast as it should. Does anyone have any ideas? I assume it's a software issue.

Running a chkdsk returned 0 errors and Samsung magician shows my drive is good.

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[nmsuk]

Thank you and good luck.

 

[Evan Horsley]

Question. So today it seems the computer is behaving fine. Let's say it's the power supply. Could it be intermittent?

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[Evan Horsley]

Could this be a windows issue? I just booked the PC up. Went to the lockscreen. I let it sit there and when it turned the display off, not it's frozen on the black screen. Power and reset button do nothing but all my RGBs are still on everything. Could that really be the PSU? Or is it likely windows?

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[nmsuk]

It could be a windows driver. Have you attempted a clean install of all the drivers.

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[nmsuk]

I'd probably go with a clean install of windows and add a driver test some until all the drivers are there.

AMD chipset and raid drivers first and then video and sound. Then once they're proved working I'd move onto the apps.

 

[Evan Horsley]

I'd probably go with a clean install of windows and add a driver test some until all the drivers are there.

AMD chipset and raid drivers first and then video and sound. Then once they're proved working I'd move onto the apps.

I have two HDDs in a RAID setup from Windows. Do I need the AMD raid driver's?

And would driver's cause the power button to not work? When the freeze happens the hard drive activity light doesn't light up at all.

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[nmsuk]

It wouldn't which is why I suggested the PSU

 

[Evan Horsley]

So I reset windows using the startup options menu and reset windows in there (but kept my files). Definitely seems to be working much better now, however time will only tell. I'll keep an eye on the system the next few days although it seems to already be going much much smoother and a lot snappier. Hopefully it is fixed. I'll post an update soon!

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