So basically, if I leave my PC idle for a bit, about 20mins or so, it just becomes unusable. If I'm watching something, the audio will start like looping the last second really fast, everything will start to freeze, my start menu will vanish and reappear, the mouse will be incredibly stuttery, my desktop icons flash, and I basically can't do anything unless I restart my PC. I've only noticed this happening recently in the past few days, I'm not sure whats causing it. I've noticed that my CPU temperatures get a bit higher than usual when this happens, which is peculiar.
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I'm not really sure where to look to see what might be causing this, so hopefully someone can help me.
Could be a bitcoin miner. Check CPU usage, do a scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
OK, I'll try that just now. Another thing to note, I was looking through my event viewer and found a couple things, they probably arent relevant but I might as well post them.
I had one critical error from the time the last one happened, event ID 41, source: kernel-power. I'm assuming that was just caused by me restarting the PC the dirty way?
I also had a lot of non-critical errors from the DeviceSetupManager at the time, ID 131, again, not sure if thats relevant.
I have a couple of application errors, ones name being KillerService.exe (idk what that is, will look into it and will probably remove it if it isn't important) and another being OHub.exe (again, idk what that is.) The OHub one features the most, idk why.
[editline]22nd August 2015[/editline]
killerservice was some quallcom network manager that came with my mb, so since I didn't use it i just removed it, still looking into ohub while malwarebytes runs a scan
[editline]22nd August 2015[/editline]
doubt any of these apps caused it, seems more like they failed because of whatever is causing it
[editline]22nd August 2015[/editline]
OK did a threat scan and it turned up nothing. I'm open to more suggestions.
Run memtest86 and clean the memory contacts, if that shows no problem run Prime95 and something for the GPU (Furmark is a good but fairly dangerous option) while watching temperatures very closely.
Start eliminating possible issues one by one.
I don't think any of these could be an issue, my memory and cpu are all fairly new, and a couple months ago I had a problem where I'd BSOD when my PC was idle and it ended up being caused by a program that came with my motherboard. If I get time today or tomorrow I'll try and run them though.
Things to try...
From your pic youre not running an overclock? If you are disable it.
Disable any startup programs that arent necessary at startup.
Monitor your cpu usage when idle. If its unexpectedly high you may have a bot.
Run a mem test.
Restart in safe mode- does the problem still occur at about the same time?
[QUOTE=Marzipas;48517146]I don't think any of these could be an issue, my memory and cpu are all fairly new, and a couple months ago I had a problem where I'd BSOD when my PC was idle and it ended up being caused by a program that came with my motherboard. If I get time today or tomorrow I'll try and run them though.[/QUOTE]
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bad memory is a thing even with new memory
I'd guess it's either of the issues that JohnnyOnFlame mentioned - faulty memory or faulty GPU / GPU drivers.
well i literally just installed some new gpu drivers that i hadn't installed for a while so that might fix it although i doubt it.
I'll try a memtest tomorrow I guess. I got this memory at the start of the year, and my last memory lasted me 5years with no problems at all.
[QUOTE=Marzipas;48517658]well i literally just installed some new gpu drivers that i hadn't installed for a while so that might fix it although i doubt it.
I'll try a memtest tomorrow I guess. I got this memory at the start of the year, and my last memory lasted me 5years with no problems at all.[/QUOTE]
You have to understand that you'll experience failures here and there. Sometimes with newer, or older equipment.
I'm using a 13 year old PATA drive thats nearing 91000hrs power on time. I have a 4 year old drive that died with only 30,000. I've had drives die within their first 1k hrs. Failure happens. It is eminent, and unavoidable.
Best you can do is start determining on what exactly is going bad. Be happy that this is all within warranty.
I'm not sure if this would fix your issue, but I had a similar issue that occurred randomly where my disk usage would spike and everything would freeze or crash.
It turns out that the services titled "Superfetch" and "Windows Search" were using a ton of disk space to update the indexing it uses to speed up search results. I simply disabled those two services entirely and can say that I haven't had the issue occur again, and losing windows search indexing didn't noticeably slow down any searches I made.
Forgot about this thread, I updated my GPU drivers a few days back and since then I've not had the issue.
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ty for all the help
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