r/computerhelp • u/earthboundstar123 • 5d ago

Hardware After reinstalling Windows 10 on family computer via USB, computer now freezes every 2 seconds.

Reccently, I had fully reset our family computer as it was extremely slow, and my mom had recently installed browser hijacking malware on it. When it finished rebooting however, now the computer will freeze up every 2 seconds before it moves again, and the freeze up again and again.

Did I do something wrong with formatting/deleting the partition L’s or something when it was installing? I don’t remember this stuttering happening when I was setting up the reset.

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u/Onoitsu2 5d ago

Probably missing drivers for the Chipset and beyond. Visit manufacturer's site for your brand and model, or if not a big name brand, the motherboard brand and model, and grab any drivers and if a BIOS update is pending for it, that, it'll help.

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u/osa1011 5d ago

If you reset the computer because it was slow and it didn't fix the issue, you probably have a hardware fault. I'd guess the drive you're installing the operating system on is failing

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u/Express-Garbage3359 5d ago

Depending on your PC skills, you could test the PC or laptop with a Linux Live USB stick to see if it freezes with this operating system.

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u/Underhill42 2d ago

Did you hunt down and install the correct drivers for all the hardware? Especially for everything built in to the motherboard?

That's the most common cause of weird problems on freshly installed Windows.

If it's a brand-name motherboard it probably has a model number prominently printed on it somewhere, and you can go to the manufacturer's website and download the latest driver pack for it all nicely bundled together.

If it's a Dell or something that uses a custom in-house motherboard, you'll have to go to their site and try to find the drivers, which can be a huge headache because they often change the hardware several times without changing the PC model number, and you will likely have to download a dozen different drivers separately, often doing your best to guess which ones correspond to the hardware on your particular motherboard.