Why did my Razer Blade freeze on startup? TL;DR Laptop froze without explanation; fixed it, but asking to help me understand what caused it. As the title says, this NYE has been pretty tense for me as my very expensive Razer Blade, 1 year old, suddenly froze completely. No mouse movement, no audio, no nothing. Restarting the laptop didn’t fix it at all: windows would boot completely, then about a minute in everything would froze just like the first time regardless of what I did in that minute or so. I tried opening up the task manager to check if something was soaking up memory but nothing relevant appeared, normal processes with only about 37% of ram occupied, which for the first minutes of startup seems fine to my untrained eye. I tried booting up in safe mode and no freeze. I tried “fixing startup errors” (or something of the sort) from the boot option menu following some threads I found online, but the procedure failed every time without further details. I eventually ended up reinstalling Windows from storage without delet