Computer Freezing After Power Outage

[Kestryll]

Okay this one has me a bit stumped.

About a week ago we had a power outage and my comp was on, not the best way to 'shut off' your computer.

Ever since then at random intervals my computer freezes up, no mouse, no keyboard, no Ctrl+Alt+Del, no video movement. I have to hard reboot it and then it start up again, runs a bit and freezes up again.

I'm running Windows 7 64 on a ASRock MB w/ 16 Gb or RAM and AMD Radeon RX 560 video card

I ran SeaTools on the Seagate HDD, it pass every test twice.
I ran memtest on the memory, again passed every test twice.
I left a motherboard monitor running so I could see the voltage and temp data when it froze, everything was well within specs.
I installed a new power supply unit in case the old one got damaged by the power outage.
I reinstalled motherboard drivers, network drivers, audio drivers and video drivers.

No joy. I have no idea what got messed up.

Here's the rub.
I've been running it all day today doing everything I normally do with the exception of listening to audio in Safe Mode and no freezing at all.
Obviously something is not loading in Safe Mode that is causing freezing in normal mode but I have no idea what it could be.

On the plus side I can stop buying hardware since this is pretty solid evidence of it being a software problem.

Anyone run across anything like this or have any ideas on what to look at next?

[lazyworm]

what about temperature?

[Kestryll]

Every time I check temps they are well below limits. The one time it froze while I had the monitoring software up there was no anomalies in the temp readings.

Temp is always a concern but I've never had much issue with it, I have enough fans in this comp that it can almost hover.

[Skip_Dog]

Run the restore/repair option. Hold down shift while you restart to bring up this option. Choose trouble shooting. Click the option to reinstall keeping your files (make sure to back up files incase something goes wrong). When windows shuts down from power failures some system files get screwy. You could try running from cmd
Chkdsk C: /r

That works sometimes....

[FeuerFrei]

Video or sound card drivers may be corrupted. Re-install those drivers. Video first and test. If it still gags then do the sound card drivers.

Bad stick of memory can get past the post and heats up and causing freezes.

Make sure it's not hardware related at a minimum. Unplug everything except the monitor, mouse and keyboard and boot to test. Network cable unplugged too.

I just had a video card go out yesterday preceded by freezes. I feel your pain. Box/OS was reporting normal temps.

[The War Wagon]

Memory's easy to replace, and more often than not a culprit after a power outage. You need an upgrade to 32mb anyways.

[meno377]

Reset CMOS?

Scratch that. If not freezing in safe mode, it has nothing to do with CMOS. However it makes me think it's the videocard driver. I would try loading an updated driver.

[C.G.]

Do you have hibernation enabled? If so, disable, reboot and see if it continues.

[CessnaDriver]

In the past I had luck with reseating RAM. Even swap slots.

[DAZE752]

Did it update with out you knowing?
my windows 10 updated once it booted up and corrupted, so I have to try safe mode and re update to fix my freezing.

[meno377]

FWIW. One of my friends had a power outage with her computer and it appeared fine, but had the exact same problem. It turned out it was a USB stick that she totally forgot about being plugged in. It became corrupted and would freeze the computer randomly. Once she realized she had the stick still plugged in, she unplugged it and it stopped freezing up.

Bought a new stick and hasn't had a problem since.

[Ivan275]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2641432/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors-in-windows-7

[the86d]

Try a "cmd":
chkdsk /f
As admin... then reboot and let it check the FS.

[Dragunov]

chkdsk /f

Check video driver.

Check ram.

Hopefully, you're not getting PS issues.

[MyOdessa]

Update your drivers.
Check your primary drive for errors (on restart).
Pop in you Win 7 disk/usb and run repair install.