Current Events > What could be wrong with my PC?

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It keeps like freezing for a minute at times. I did a scan and for some reason it found some trojans in FFVIII on steam for some reason and I haven't played it for years.

Any good tools I could use to find shit?

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I remember I had AVG Tuner free month, it did wonders for my PC. Is it worth buying? It's not that expensive. But still...

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Malwarebytes and windows defender. Stop downloading porn and hiding it in your FFVIII folder. Also videos wont be .exe files.

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Did you check to see how much memory is being used?

FabIe posted...

Malwarebytes and windows defender. Stop downloading porn and hiding it in your FFVIII folder. Also videos wont be .exe files.

But the RAM I downloaded from Bearshare shouldn't make my PC not freeze like this.

Cocytus posted...

Did you check to see how much memory is being used?

I saw no spikes on anything in Taskmaster when I looked. My Firefox drains a lot of memory but it's never above 60% in total anyway.

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Windows Update background service is a huge resource hog.
Also rule out overheating, possibly caused by Windows Update being a resource hog.

download even moar ram. eventually you will have more ram than virus and the ram will ignore them

but forreal download malwarebytes, dc from internet, run a scan, reboot, scan again and quarrantine the items. otherwise u can reformat the hard drive completely.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Windows Update background service is a huge resource hog.
Also rule out overheating, possibly caused by Windows Update being a resource hog.

Nah temp is at 35C when using basic stuff, goes to 45-50C when I do heavy CPU stuff.
I think I disabled all those memory hogs except Firefox.

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Maybe its a HDD problem?

This happens when PC freezes.



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Your GPU is maxed and your CPU is under almost half load, what else are you doing in that screenshot?

Do you know how to use Event Viewer?

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Corrupt_Power posted...

Your GPU is maxed and your CPU is under almost half load, what else are you doing in that screenshot?

Do you know how to use Event Viewer?

I was playing Risk of Rain 2

Never used it.

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Ok. Define freezing exactly.

What stops responding? Everything, mouse and keyboard included? If you have something playing on your monitor, a game or a video, or audio, do those freeze too? Does your monitor black out at all?

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When playing RoR2 GPU is at 50-70% most of the time.

Corrupt_Power posted...

Ok. Define freezing exactly.

What stops responding? Everything, mouse and keyboard included? If you have something playing on your monitor, a game or a video, or audio, do those freeze too? Does your monitor black out at all?

Usually what happens is whatever I'm doing stops responding, be it the game or just browser, when I play Griftlands the music starts to lag/loop or stop (music stopped once in RoR2 as well). Sometimes that's all that happens, but more often PC freezes, I can't move mouse or anything. But if I have youtube video on when it happens the video keeps going with the sound, then after a minute all my actions I did catch up.

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mattymad posted...

What's on Disk D? Was the game installed there? What about your OS?

Also a disk being at 100% wit 0 write and read a second is dodgy looking to the max. What kinda drive is it?

I'm betting it's a spinning disk, and Windows Search Indexer was probably banging away at it.

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mattymad posted...

What's on Disk D? Was the game installed there? What about your OS?

Also a disk being at 100% wit 0 write and read a second is dodgy looking to the max. What kinda drive is it?

D is my HDD, I install most of my games in that.
C is my SSD with my OS and other important programs


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FF_Redux posted...

When playing RoR2 GPU is at 50-70% most of the time.

Usually what happens is whatever I'm doing stops responding, be it the game or just browser, when I play Griftlands the music starts to lag/loop or stop (music stopped once in RoR2 as well). Sometimes that's all that happens, but more often PC freezes, I can't move mouse or anything. But if I have youtube video on when it happens the video keeps going with the sound, then after a minute all my actions I did catch up.

Interesting. Can you say with any certainty if audio ever stuttered or stopped outside of video games?

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Corrupt_Power posted...

Interesting. Can you say with any certainty if audio ever stuttered or stopped outside of video games?

Only had audio problems when playing a game. (Only tried RoR2 and Griftlands).

Then again the only audio outside game Ive tried is youtube

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FF_Redux posted...

D is my HDD, I install most of my games in that.
C is my SSD with my OS and other important programs

Your games would be better off on your SSD. I'm not sure what programmes you'd have on SSD to justify putting the games on the HDD, the OS makes sense but most other programmes have no need to have such high speed access..

JE19426 posted...

Your games would be better off on your SSD. I'm not sure what programmes you'd have on SSD to justify putting the games on the HDD, the OS makes sense but most other programmes have no need to have such high speed access..

I know, but its mostly that my HDD has more space. SSD isnt that large.

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Hmm. Audio works outside of games, and when things lock up outside of games monitor and audio feeds continue, but input hangs for a while and then catches up.

It could be the search indexer. It could also be a lot of other things.

How open are you to backing up things you want to keep a hold of and doing a fresh, clean install of Windows?

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Corrupt_Power posted...

Hmm. Audio works outside of games, and when things lock up outside of games monitor and audio feeds continue, but input hangs for a while and then catches up.

It could be the search indexer. It could also be a lot of other things.

How open are you to backing up things you want to keep a hold of and doing a fresh, clean install of Windows?

Yeah not at all open to clean install right now.

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Now it happened again. But GPU went to 0%, I could still use mouse, open folders, music from the game dissappeared but I could hear the wind in it. D drive went to 100%. Then the game just shut off and things went back to normal.

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FF_Redux posted...

Yeah not at all open to clean install right now.

Dang. Always makes things so much easier from the troubleshooting side to just go that route, lol

FF_Redux posted...

Now it happened again. But GPU went to 0%, I could still use mouse, open folders, music from the game dissappeared but I could hear the wind in it. D drive went to 100%. Then the game just shut off and things went back to normal.

Display driver crashing, possibly. Do this:

1. Open the start menu and type "Event Viewer", then press Enter
2. On the left, expand Custom Views, then click on "Administrative Events"
3. In the list of events, look for ones that read "Error" or "Critical" under Level and are timestamped around the time the hangs are happening.
4. If you find some, click on them and copy & paste what is in the details box under the Events list.

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Try unplugging your D drive and see if it still happens. You could put one game on your C drive to test that too.

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SkittyOnWailord posted...

Try unplugging your D drive and see if it still happens. You could put one game on your C drive to test that too.

That's one thing to try as well the drive may be failing. How old is it?

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Corrupt_Power posted...

Dang. Always makes things so much easier from the troubleshooting side to just go that route, lol

Display driver crashing, possibly. Do this:
1. Open the start menu and type "Event Viewer", then press Enter
2. On the left, expand Custom Views, then click on "Administrative Events"
3. In the list of events, look for ones that read "Error" or "Critical" under Level and are timestamped around the time the hangs are happening.
4. If you find some, click on them and copy & paste what is in the details box under the Events list.

This happend just now when I opened a notepad document. Youtube was rolling normally, I could use Firefox as normal, but mouse cursor was the "loading" cursor outside browser, D went to 100%.

This is what Event Viever said

svchost (17304,R,98) TILEREPOSITORYS-1-5-18: Error -1023 (0xfffffc01) occurred while opening logfile C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData \Local\TileDataLayer\Database\EDB.log.

But every error seems to have different stuff in them. Other errors the past hour:

A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Windows Error Reporting Service service to connect.

The program dwm.exe version 10.0.18362.387 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.
Process ID: 430
Start Time: 01d6ce31387a4e43
Termination Time: 287
Application Path: C:\Windows\System32\dwm.exe
Report Id: ccd614ec-8cb1-4f5c-9ceb-a40f3b5846c4
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Hang type: Unknown

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mattymad posted...

Honestly, I think it's the D: Drive.

It sounds like I/O hang ups.

Now WHY the D: drive is doing that? No idea. What brand and age is it? There's a chance it's just dying.

Or there's a chance the read/write being slow is Windows fault somewhere.

How much free space is on your C: Drive? Do you know if your pagefile is on C: or D:? (if you never changed pagefile settings, it'll be C).

Seagate Barracuda 2TB from 2014.

My C is just 250GB SSD from the same year. Dont have much room left in it atm.

I dont think I ever had change pagefile, I dont even know what it is.


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mattymad posted...

How much is "Don't much room left"?

Not home atm. Dont remember but its on red. Maybe 40-25GB.

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Can you post your specs?

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FabIe posted...

Can you post your specs?

i7-4790K 4GHz
16GB Ram
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Um don't remember if you need more.

I played Shadow Warrior 2 which is on my SSD and there was no problems.

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I did the windows one Error Checking on D drive and found nothing.

But in Event viewer it got me 34 Errors that says this:

The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block.

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Downloaded seagate tool to detect errors and it found errors on my D drive. Says I should back stuff up before trying to fix, ugh this is annoying.

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Tried to repair the drive with sea gate tools but it failed. Says I should use SeaGate Bootable next.

Maybe it has overheated and gotten damaged?

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Booted my my and got this



What is corsairvbusdriver.sys? Tried to google but I dont get it. Corsair? My obly corsair is my RAM and PSU

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That driver is for the Corsair Utility Engine. Do you have RGB RAM?
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well my corsair keyboard is rbg.

After I booted my pc it could not find the D drive.

So I shut it off, removed all dust, had lot if it >_>.

Unplugged and plugged in the HDD.

PC is back on now and it found D again. Ugh

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I have a sprare HDD with 1 TB. Maybe I should hook it up and transfer my stuff to it. Thing is I have desktop on D. I thought I had it on C. Is that hard to change?

And is there a way to save data on the HDD before it breaks totally? It's doing the 100% thing more often, it's dying

But why would it be dying? 6 year old HDD isn't too bad right? But it's been used a lot, like I have Plex server on it and I watch lot of stuff through Plex, could that have damaged it?

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According to the only study I could find on hard drive life spans, 6 years is fairly pretty old for them. They're study only goes for 4 years, but they think by year 6 half of all hard drives will have died. Of course they are a data backup provider so it's in their interest to make people think their data is more at risk then it is:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-mainstream-2tb-internal-sata-hard-drive-for-desktops/9312076.p?skuId=9312076

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FF_Redux posted...

But the RAM I downloaded from Bearshare shouldn't make my PC not freeze like this.

Are you serious?

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mattymad posted...

Hard drives are weird. It entirely depends on the kind of read/writing it had over its life time - which is pretty impossible to tell. Plus, they can get issues which slowly degrade it's health. Like imagine it was slightly offset, every time the arm seeks, it slightly scratches the surface of the disk. Over time, it destroys more and more of the hard drive before rendering the whole thing unusable.

That's just one example too. They can die. Sometimes its physical, sometimes it's the controllers, etc, etc. HDDs have a lot of moving parts and in engineering, they often say, the more moving parts, the more things can go wrong. You could slightly drop it, bang it, knock it, etc. and it'll break it. You shouldn't move them whilst they're on either. SSDs you can move fine.

When you said your "desktop is on D" do you mean your Windows install is? I would definitely look at installing Windows to a fresh SSD and backing up any important data. Your page file (the thing I mentioned earlier) will be on D if Windows is. The Page File is written/read a lot constantly by Windows, if there are any delays in reading/writing it, you'll get a total computer hang.

No. Windows is on C. But I dont remember why my desktop is on D. Like when it didnt find D I had no desktop, no icons etc. Could still use things like Firefox which was open.

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Yeah user is on D. Not sure why I did that honestly.

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