pc randomly freezes

[jay-uk]

Hi wonder if anyone can help,

i have a Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon board,
I7-6700k, 8gb of corsair ram, a cx 600 corsair psu,
samsung ssd for windows and a wd Blue hard drive for everything else

recently it seems to randomly freeze for a few seconds at a time
i could be doing anything including just browsing and it will freeze briefly.
i recently update the bios and was wondering if that could be the problem,
or something else is causing it. any help would be great

Thanks

[AlienALX]

I am getting this too, and I have not updated my bios. I suspect it may be something to do with the new patches for Meltdown and Spectre.

I would run a memory test and a few stress tests though.

[jay-uk]

Thanks for the fast reply. any particular programs you think i should use to test, Have microsoft said anything they are doing to help this issue if it is the cause, Also what have you done about your issue ?

[AlienALX]

Run a memtest (it will require a reboot IIRC). Asus Realbench is a good stress test