Freezing computer

My computer has been freezing for like 10 seconds. Sometimes I can move the mouse, sometimes not. If I click a bunch of stuff nothing happens until the freeze ends, then it all opens at once.
It's getting very frustrating.
It's a work from home machine, pretty much just work on Chrome with several tabs open at once.

Also, I recently installed a free copy of Borderlands 3 and I was unable to play it at all, it just kept freezing. Even the intro story kept freezing.

I built it myself in 2019 and haven't had any issues with it. It's a B450 with a Ryzen 5 2400G and 8GB of DDR4-2400 with a single SSD running Windows 10.

I ran a Windows memory test and it didn't find any errors.
I also ran a Windows hard disk check which found errors. Then it asks if I would like it to fix errors on the next bootup, and it does, it takes about 40 minutes, but then when I run the scan again, it again finds errors. I've done it 3 times and it still say's there's errors, do I want them fixed on the next bootup.

Should I just keep doing it over and over or is there some other issue?

 

Thanks for the reply. What exactly will I be looking for after a freeze?

 

No it's usually very low, it's the memory usage that's high if anything. Weird thing is I've been online all morning and not one freeze.....maybe it was HD errors like windows said....but I've run it 3x and it still found errors. Should I just keep running the fix over and over and maybe eventually it'll say "no errors found"? Or is this the beginning of a HD failure?

 

Yes, there is another issue: Your hard drive is failing.

 

Still not one freeze today. I ran and fixed errors two more times, but it still finds errors. However the computer is running great since the "fixes", not sure what to think. I also gained disk space, which is odd, like 5 gigs after running the "fixes".

I guess I'll start browsing SSD's, it IS the oldest component in my case.

 

Any of you guys up to date on hardware, if you could recommend a good 500GB SSD in the $50 range it would be much appreciated. Don't need top of the line but don't want cheap either.

Thanks in advance.

 

Western Digital "Blue".

 

Ok so I cloned my old drive to a new drive and it works perfectly. However, the computer still shows C as the old drive, it say's "55.3gb free of 222gb".

The drive is 500gb. Is this an issue? Is it going to let me use the full 500gb?

Oh and this is the funny part...I ran windows disk check on the new drive just for kicks, and it found errors and "fixed" them on re-boot. WTH? For some reason I bet if I run it again..it's still going to find errors...lol.

 

You cloned over the file system errors. That's why Windows shows the errors.

Anyway, I'm glad it's not locking up anymore.

 

Thanks for the help guys, I really appreciate it, and I learned a bunch. It runs faster than ever now.