Very strange problem: Can't load WEB pages, "cad" nor "shut down" and "restart" buttons do nothing.
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This had happened for the first time almost week ago, and now it happened again.
First time:
-Talking on skype, watching their screen through screen-sharing
-Running a videogame in the background
-Watching a youtube video
Suddenly, the video stops, other websites can't be loaded too (in any browser), I can't re-open firefox after closing it, nothing happens when I press CAD or ctrl+shift+esc. Shut down, Restart buttons from Start menu do nothing, pressing power on the tower does nothing. [B]I can still talk with person on skype and see their screen.[/B] PC is fully responsive otherwise (no lag, my game still runs perfectly). I had to hold the power button to force it to shut down.
A friend said it's an HDD fuckup (I have one 2tb HDD, two MBR partitions). I checked it with my defragger and my D partition was at 75% fragmentation because I downloaded some huge files recently and forgot to defrag for a month (don't have it on auto). I defragmented it with Defraggler and forgot about it.
Just now it happened again. I had just my browser open, playing another youtube video. My HDD didn't show any bad sectors about a month ago when I was doing a full checkup due to my other issue (PC randomly freezes about once a month, like somebody put it on pause. No looping sounds or anything).
I will do another sector check overnight, but now I really hope somebody can point me in the right direction!
HDD stats:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/AXIrADO.png[/img]
Specs:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/HSnJsbT.png[/img]
Last windows event before (possibly at the start of) the problem.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/awCf5iO.png[/img]
Avast and sharex always runs in the background, if that is of any help. I like to keep my system mostly clean of unneeded processes.
Run Memtest
[QUOTE=SataniX;51121700]Run Memtest[/QUOTE]
I had ran it overnight about a month ago due to the rare freezing problem. It had discovered no errors (I know it's not 100% reliable). Assuming all my hardware is fine, my suspicion is on Avast. It scans in the background constantly, is it possible for it to "wander" somewhere where it's not welcome and cause an error? Forgive me my layman phrasing. After testing the HDD again I will try un-installing it and see if something like this happen. Haven't got a single virus in years anyway.
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