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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.
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.
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThank you for following up on this Roy - happy to hear you worked through this after all and I appreciate your update on this thread as it might prove to be useful to many users having such issues in the future.
Have a lovely day ahead and keep Dropboxing!
