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Syncing causes system freeze
It took me a while to figure out that Dropbox was in fact the cause of this. This morning, after being away for a month, the PC (windows 10) froze up every 10-30 minutes after booting. A hard re...
Update 19-06: I fixed this issue. Sorry to blame Dropbox for this. It turned out to be a bad RAM module (1 of 2 8GB sticks Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK16GX4M2B3000C15) turns out to be faulty. Over 2k of errors within a few minutes of RAM testing with Memtest86. When syncing a big Dropbox folder like I had (300GB+ it crashed more often because of the increased activity on the PC).
Hope to help out others with this update. Thanks for the quick support, really appreciate it!
Case closed.
@Walt3R thank you for the fast reply, appreciate it.
I thought it was my Windows acting up first, so I had to do a Repair of the system. However, after re-installing Windows, the freezes still occured. When I removed the Dropbox (which was very busy syncing, leading to high CPU usage as well), the problem did not occur anymore. Still running since the start of this post without a single freeze. I guess I will have to test it again tomorrow try and re-install again, but as you know, syncing folders and lots of individual small files with a total amount of 300GB is not a 10-minute task :)
Jane
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for checking - the system freezes even appear now when Dropbox is completely removed, and Windows has done a ''re-install/reset''.
The issue seems related to something else. In both Chrome (used for years) random tabs crash, so I moved to Firefox but the issues remain. Tabs crash at random, or FF shuts down completely. This is on a clean Win10 pro install (1709). I will need to find out another cause for this. I jumped to conclusions to soon, although Dropbox had a very high CPU/MEM usage at the time of syncing the 300GB so I thought it had something to do with that. I will not install Dropbox until I have permanently fixed the random system freezes and tabs crashing. Difficult to find a solution for random stuff like that happening, even on a clean install without any bloated drivers hanging around.
Thanks for the help!
- Walter
Thanks for keeping us posted x0royx!
I am sorry to hear that this persists for you. If I were in your shoes in this case, I would update my Windows version to see if this is resolved on a newer build. I would also suggest that you took a look here as well to see if there's any tip you could use to resolve this issue with your Windows 10 device freezing.
I hope this helps and please let us know what worked out for you in the end.
Thanks and have a great week ahead Roy!
Update 19-06: I fixed this issue. Sorry to blame Dropbox for this. It turned out to be a bad RAM module (1 of 2 8GB sticks Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK16GX4M2B3000C15) turns out to be faulty. Over 2k of errors within a few minutes of RAM testing with Memtest86. When syncing a big Dropbox folder like I had (300GB+ it crashed more often because of the increased activity on the PC).
Hope to help out others with this update. Thanks for the quick support, really appreciate it!
Case closed.
