Windows not working right.
My gaming pc is acting up and has been for months.
A few months ago my pc started crashing in games, I updated everything and fixed it but then Windows start3d acting weird. Sometimes when I go to shut down, I cant click the button and it won't respond to cmd shutdown commands either. Sometimes when I click shut down or restart it just stays on the black screen woth the spinning logo. Sometimes explorer or drive Manager won't respond after opening. My browser freezes until I grab it from the top and reposition it.
I've tried multiple things to fix this.
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Ran the second and dism commands, it always finds something but won't fix the issue.
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soft reinstalled windows, issue came back
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Fully reinstalled windows from scratch, fixed for a month or so then it came back.
I have a rtx 5089, 12700k, 32gb gskill ram, new ish psu, msi z690 carbon wifi mb, 1 2tb nvme ssd.
Not sure if it's a program that could be causing this or if one of my hardware components is failing.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Posted Sep 21, 2026, 6:12 PM UTC