Where do I start?
One day about 2 weeks ago, I got a random BSoD. Thinking nothing of it (because these things happen, right?), I restarted. My computer is A little sluggish to boot, so I left it working and got a drink. When I came back, it's still sitting at the pre-bios screen. (I don't actually know what it's called, so I'm going to stick with that. It's just the screen that pops up as soon as you boot.)
Now what happens next is rather strange, rather than instantly going to the boot drive select screen, when I press the associated button, it sits there for about 8s, when it usually only takes about 2. Even weirder still, there is a rather large lag between pressing the down arrow, and anything actually happening on the screen, so I just use the default boot drive.
When it FINALLY gets to the windows loading screen, the little animation plays in slow motion, and when I finally do get into windows, everything is also running in slow motion, minimizing windows, peeking, opening apps, even all source games are running in slow motion.
I have googled, to no avail. I have updated windows (and manually installed drivers from Nvidia), ran the inbuilt diagnostic tool, and restarted a number of times. The only thing I have not tried as of writing this thread is booting in safe mode, which I will do shortly. If you want specs or any other info, please ask.
I did record the aero/source glitch (because I couldn't really record the bios being slow) Sorry for the shitty music and quality, I'm no god at Vegas. :/
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCzmWqnXtSk[/media]
So Facepunch, what do you think?
P.S. I usually get about 100 fps in MW2, whereas now I'm getting about 400, which makes me think that it's running 4x slowerl.
tldr; PC running in slow motion after BSoD. Startup/bios also affected. Updated, restarted, googled, and found nothing.
That is actually pretty strange. Did you install any programs before the BSOD?
and 400fps is 4x faster than 100fps.
I'd say that either your graphics card is damaged or something got severely underclocked (most likely GPU, it seems to be rendering fast enough but slow to push frames to the monitor)
If you have an integrated graphics accelerator, plug the monitor into that and see if there's a difference (also, pull out your old graphics card just in case).
[QUOTE=robmaister12;23982388]That is actually pretty strange. Did you install any programs before the BSOD?
and 400fps is 4x faster than 100fps.
I'd say that either your graphics card is damaged or something got severely underclocked (most likely GPU, it seems to be rendering fast enough but slow to push frames to the monitor)
If you have an integrated graphics accelerator, plug the monitor into that and see if there's a difference (also, pull out your old graphics card just in case).[/QUOTE]
No, I didn't install any apps, but I did end some processes, which has cause the BSoD twice now (see bottom of post *.) (i know, i know.. but i wanted to render a video faster)
Well, seeing as what my pc thinks is 1 second, is actually 4 seconds, it IS 4x slower. Its a bit of a brainfuck to get your head around.
The PC is factory build, by HP. I bought it about 6 months ago.. I would be pretty pissed off at it. And I haven't played with any clock settings at all, as it voids the warranty.
Unfortunately, it doesn't have an integrated card. I do have about 6 other cards i could test with, but opening the case voids the warranty (stupid HP ):<)
I have it in safe mode right now, but have to way to test if its still bugging out (i doubt safe mode would fix it, seeing as the error happens pre windows).
*This HAS happened before, with the exact symptoms. I fixed it last time by installing a gfx card driver via windows update.
Ok, then it just looks like something's fucked up with the graphics card or it's drivers.
FPS in games are different than FPS for high-speed cameras, higher FPS in games means quicker motion, and the opposite applies for high-speed cameras.
Stopping processes won't render a video quicker anyways, unless the other process is using more than 50% CPU in Task Manager.
I'm assuming you stopped some process like svchost or csrss, which is absolutely necessary to run Windows. Don't end any processes in task manager unless you know exactly what it is and it isn't a Microsoft service.
Uninstall your drivers, run [url=http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/]Driver Sweeper[/url] and install a fresh copy of your drivers. Hopefully that fixes it.
[QUOTE=robmaister12;23982739]Ok, then it just looks like something's fucked up with the graphics card or it's drivers.
FPS in games are different than FPS for high-speed cameras, higher FPS in games means quicker motion, and the opposite applies for high-speed cameras.
Stopping processes won't render a video quicker anyways, unless the other process is using more than 50% CPU in Task Manager.
I'm assuming you stopped some process like svchost or csrss, which is absolutely necessary to run Windows. Don't end any processes in task manager unless you know exactly what it is and it isn't a Microsoft service.
Uninstall your drivers, run [url=http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/]Driver Sweeper[/url] and install a fresh copy of your drivers. Hopefully that fixes it.[/QUOTE]
The FPS glitch was something totally different to the slow motion glitch. I was getting 100 FPS (in real time), but seeing as 1 second to my pc was really 4 seconds of real time, the game had rendered 400 frames, and so fraps showed me that (I'm sorry if I'm sounding ignorant, I'm tired as hell D:)
I was ending processed to free up ram (I had about 80gb of videos to edit)
And yes, I must have accidentally ended something like that. I was trying to end stupid background processes for apps that I never use, and never bother to delete.
Ill try rolling back my gfx card driver first, then try driver sweep :)
Thanks for the help! Have a heart :smile:
I had a problem with slow bios once, turned out it was my x in 1 card reader which was straight fucked, I unplugged it and it worked perfectly.
[QUOTE=nige111;23982875]I had a problem with slow bios once, turned out it was my x in 1 card reader which was straight fucked, I unplugged it and it worked perfectly.[/QUOTE]
Hmm.. It does have one of those stupid card readers. I'll try that if this doesn't work.
(Also, excuse the bad typing/spelling/grammar. Was trying to type on an old, broken laptop :P)
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I'm going to bed. I will update you in the morning.
In the meantime, feel free to continue asking questions/posting suggestions!
Driver Sweep didn't work, and I can't check to see if unplugging the multi card reader will work till the weekend.
Any more suggestions?
:downs: re-install windows.
Might have a recovery install boot option...
[QUOTE=CyberWatt;24005008]:downs: re-install windows.
Might have a recovery install boot option...[/QUOTE]
Re-installing isn't an option right now. I want to try every other possibility before that, as I have a TON of stuff on my hard drive, no where to back it up, and a monthly data cap of 40GB =/
No more suggestions? :(
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[QUOTE=CyberWatt;24005008]:downs: re-install windows.
Might have a recovery install boot option...[/QUOTE]
And I don't really see how re-installing windows would fix the problem, unless it was a driver issue, which wouldn't require a re-install anyway. If it was a windows specific problem, yes, but it isn't - it's in slow motion from the second I boot.
Do you have a system checkpoint set?
[QUOTE=Teh_Medic;24170473]Do you have a system checkpoint set?[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, no.
This may not help you, but my little vostro actually had two hard drives. After unplugging the second hard drive, it booted up fine. So that second hard drive i will probably never use is going to storage, but try to boot computer without second hard drive plugged in with both power and data sata. Of course, if you have one hard drive, this won't apply to you, but if you have more than one hard drive in there, then yes, this might help. :smile:
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I would guess he either got a new pc or fixed it in 5 years.. :p
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