And it's not viruses or anything, I've used both Microsoft Security Essentials and CCleaner.
My computer freezes on every 5 minutes or so, and there's always one thing I notice, my CPU usage drops to like 3% before PC freezes, and when it unfreezes it jumps back up.
I'm not an expert, so I'll just ask is it possible to force PC programs to use more CPU?
I'll post specs soon.
[editline]31st January 2011[/editline]
Specs:
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
AMD Athlon II X3 440 Processor, 4,9GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4600 series 4670 to be precise).
I posted the pic just in case. :v:
But seriously, this is ridicilous.
Anyone?
Does it happen regardless of what you're doing?
Pretty much, yeah.
Heck, it even freezes when I start up steam.
Then when it unfreezes, it just pops out everything at same time.
Your Harddrive is failing, I dunno why I didn't add that to my other post.
[editline]1st February 2011[/editline]
The CPU usage drops because it literally has to wait for the hard-drive. You can try to do a defrag it might help or it might cause the hard-drive to fail immediately. Backup might be a good idea.
[editline]1st February 2011[/editline]
Oh yeah to another Hard-drive it'd be really stupid to backup onto the failing drive. (just in-case).
I'll try defragmentation tomorrow.
Run chkdsk to see if there are any bad clusters on your HDD
To do this hit your Windows key, type cmd in the search box, right click it, run as administrator
Type in "chkdsk c:" and Windows will automatically locate any problems, you can also use /r and /f to fix them if found
defragment after that if it fixes the issues, but not before
if you are running Vista, absolutely do not use the form of chkdsk which doesn't utilize the cmd prompt as it does not work properly
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