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I've been having daily system freezes ever since Win11 first dropped.
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>
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/01/05/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22621-1095-and-22623-1095/
I have one more question: did you switch to beta without a clean installation of Windows?
- Nothing told me that I needed to do a clean install when switching to Beta and so, no, there wasn't a new clean install. Had no idea that might be necessary.
The switch only worked in March 2022 if I remember correctly, but surely this is the cause of your problems, Windows11 , to lower the channel on beta must be done a clean installation of Windows that removes everything and reinstalls the beta , write what you want to do about it
- Actually, the freezes first appeared in Aug. of 2021. I only switched to Beta 2-3 months ago. I switched to Beta after putting up with the freezes for a very long time and as part of addressing the problem - after, for example, it became clear that Nvidia driver updates weren't going to fix the problem.
I want to do whatever's necessary to fix the problem and if that involves a reinstall of Windows, that's fine.
- Is the version number I posted a Dev channel version number?