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I've been having daily system freezes ever since Win11 first dropped.
Which I calculate to have been 2021-08.
Recopying how I'd written this up in a non-Insider forum earlier today - before I learned of the existence of this forum.
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Ever since, roughly, August of last 2021 the new computer we bought in Jan 2021 has been having daily hard freezes.
I put the machine into Windows Insider a couple of months before and I believe Win 11 began to drop at about the same time.
It looked at first like a video driver (Nvidia for this system) problem at first however I've continued to update the Nvidia driver which hasn't fixed the problem and I'm thinking now that it's something in Windows.
The other day I snapshotted the following when it started to get a strange hang which I think might be related. 100% on system interrupts - which lasted several minutes?
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It's quickest to power cycle my machine when it freezes, however, I do have minidumps turned on and uploaded the most recent to my OneDrive:
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patfla123 Hi,
I understand that you have an Insider compilation, so this behavior is possible, but the system is still working (without an error code)?
What channel is it and what compilation?
I see there have been problems before, if you want to have a stable version of Windows11, then write?
Hi Andrezej1 - thanks for your response.
Still working without an error code> largely yes. However, it freezes sometimes 2 or 3 times/day. Mostly I immediately power cycle since that's the fastest way to recover. Occasionally I leave it in that frozen state which after say 5-8 minutes will produce the new 'green screen' that's the equivalent of the old blue screen.
Bugcheck. I've accumulated only 5 or so minidumps (because I mostly power cycle). All bugcheck error code = 0x133 meaning Watchdog. Meaning, basically, the system was hung and it bugchecked itself. So what's the underlying problem? Don't know. Have been regularly updating my Nvidia video driver (via GeForce Experience) but that hasn't helped at all.
I was on the Dev channel but 2-3 months ago switched to Beta hoping that would eventually lead me entirely out of Insider. I had, maybe, reasons for being in Insider a long time ago (it's complicated) but at this point mostly I want to get out. The experience has been a bad one. At some point, I'll just reinstall Windows altogether. It seems to me possible that even that won't solve the problem and I'll have to junk this machine and buy another and I'll feel (whether rightly or wrongly) that Insider was an important part of the problem and will, hopefully, never try Insider again. We're doing MS' testing for them and for free - and with bad interruptions to my own work.
Is this the version number (compilation) you're looking for?
C:\Windows\System32>ver
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22623.1095]
C:\Windows\System32>Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1095 and 22623.1095 | Windows Insider Blog
I have one more question: did you switch to beta without a clean installation of Windows?
