Strange memory issue, maxing out memory

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Darkearth10

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Hey everyone,

I've been having this odd issue with one of my computers that I haven't come across before, nor can I figure out what is causing it or any pattern to it.

Basically my PC will slow down to an extremely slow pace, struggling to load anything or even open up task manager, the problem seems to be that when I check my usage stats in Task manager my Memory and disk usage is at 98%-100% with very little memory actually being used.

As far as I can tell the issue is seemingly random, I haven't found a certain pattern or something that I do that triggers this to happen. I can go weeks without it happening to it happening every day or multiple times a day. The only way I've found to temporarily fix it is to boot into safe mode and then boot out of safe mode. This will resolve it until it decides to happen again.

If anyone happens to have any ideas it is much appreciated.

Extra info: This has been happening since days within the computer being built.

Here's a screenshot of taskmanager: http://i.imgur.com/G1GfA2w.png

Here are the systems stats:

Windows 10
Intel I7 6700k
MSI Gaming Z170A M5 Mobo
16GB DDR4
500GB Samsung Evo SSD
1000W gold PSU
Nvidia GTX1080
 
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cilliers
Thanks for the images. I've never had this happen to me before. If this happened to me, then I would probably try to determine the root cause by exercising the following methodology:

Before you do any of the things below its worth a shot to remove the OS drive from your computer and hook it up to another computer as a secondary drive. Either via USB or SATA. Just make sure that you don't boot from it. The host computer should have up-to-date antivirus and malware software. Then run a full scan on your suspicious disc, using the malware and anti virus software. Also try to look for errors on the drive, using windows scandisk.

If nothing showed up during the aforementioned step then keep the drive in the host PC and back-up your current...
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How much RAM is windows actually recognizing?
If you could please send pics of the following task manager tabs as well:
1. Performance,
2. Details (arranged by highest first)

And then a screenshot of of your system information (windows key + pause)
 
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Darkearth10

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I wish I hadn't but I just safe booted the PC shortly after posting this so I could actually use it. (Stupid me). So the issue isn't occurring at the moment to reflect on the task manager tabs. (As soon as it happens again ill upload those photos for ya) I can say that from previously checking there windows is recognizing the full 16GB in the performance tab, it shows that it's using 15.8GB~ of the memory at all times, but not showing what is actually using the memory.
 
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Cool. Sounds good.
 
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Darkearth10

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Hey, update here.

Sorry this has taken so long to reply back, the issue finally happened again. (True to it's literally randomness, going from happening two days in a row to almost a month)

Here are the screenshots you requested.

Performance: http://i.imgur.com/w1Cozee.png
Details: http://i.imgur.com/XYN7qI2.png
System Info: http://i.imgur.com/nWDKByY.png
 
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Thanks for the images. I've never had this happen to me before. If this happened to me, then I would probably try to determine the root cause by exercising the following methodology:

Before you do any of the things below its worth a shot to remove the OS drive from your computer and hook it up to another computer as a secondary drive. Either via USB or SATA. Just make sure that you don't boot from it. The host computer should have up-to-date antivirus and malware software. Then run a full scan on your suspicious disc, using the malware and anti virus software. Also try to look for errors on the drive, using windows scandisk.

If nothing showed up during the aforementioned step then keep the drive in the host PC and back-up your current OS to a separate drive (if you have things on there that you want). If not, then put the drive back into original PC and do fresh windows install.

Also please try the following:


1. Flash motherboard to latest firmware.
2. Ensure that your RAM kit is on your motherboard's list of approved memory, by visiting the manufacturer's support website.
3. Steer clear of "dirty" installation files and beware of the fatal malware in torrents that can slip past anti virus.'

Good luck!
 
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