Ok, I'm not a newbie here first off. I just haven't been here in YEARS and I've forgotten my login name apparently.
Ok so I got the Windows 7 RTM from my college using the awesome MSDNAA and it's been working great but tonight, exactly when it turned 1 am, the screen went all heebeejeebee on me and was flickering and eventually when straight to the lame, aero-less mode. After about 2 minutes of it sitting like that, it started flickering like mad again and went back to aero. Either my computer is possessed by a pc demon, it's a windows glitch, or there is a hardware issue... This has never happened because I've never been on my computer this late. Normally I'm laying on the floor on my MacBook at 1 AM instead of on my desktop.
Just in case, my specs are:
CPU: C2D E8400 3GHz @ 3.4GHz
Memory: G.Skill 4GB DDR2 800 @ 999Mhz
Mobo: ASUS P5Q Deluxe
Video: ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
Hard Drive: WD 6401AALS 640GB
Optical: Sony DVD-ROM
PSU: PC Power and Cooling Silencer 610Watt
[QUOTE=Captain Chunk;17892857]Ok, I'm not a newbie here first off. I just haven't been here in YEARS and I've forgotten my login name apparently.
Ok so I got the Windows 7 RTM from my college using the awesome MSDNAA and it's been working great but tonight, exactly when it turned 1 am, the screen went all heebeejeebee on me and was flickering and eventually when straight to the lame, aero-less mode. After about 2 minutes of it sitting like that, it started flickering like mad again and went back to aero. Either my computer is possessed by a pc demon, it's a windows glitch, or there is a hardware issue... This has never happened because I've never been on my computer this late. Normally I'm laying on the floor on my MacBook at 1 AM instead of on my desktop.
Just in case, my specs are:
CPU: C2D E8400 3GHz @ 3.4GHz
Memory: G.Skill 4GB DDR2 800 @ 999Mhz
Mobo: ASUS P5Q Deluxe
Video: ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
Hard Drive: WD 6401AALS 640GB
Optical: Sony DVD-ROM
PSU: PC Power and Cooling Silencer 610Watt[/QUOTE]
i think its windows update or something.
change the update time to some earlier time and see if it does it.
or its an antivirus.
I'm pretty fucking worried, that just happened to me as well about 1 A.M. while I was browsing FP. I'm hoping someone can inform me why this happened as well.
C2D E8400
4gb DDR2
Gigabyte Mobo
Radeon HD 4850 1gb
WD640gb hdd
PC p&c 610w
Thats wierd I think that is what happend a few seconds ago. :ohdear:
Well at least I know that these "demons" aren't only in my computer!
Oh, and my antivirus is AntiVir Free Edition if that helps at all.
[QUOTE=TropicalV2;17892913]I'm pretty fucking worried, that just happened to me as well about 1 A.M. while I was browsing FP. I'm hoping someone can inform me why this happened as well.
C2D E8400
4gb DDR2
Gigabyte Mobo
Radeon HD 4850 1gbMB
WD640gb hdd
PC p&c 610w[/QUOTE]
That's so strange, and and OP have extremely similar hardware.
[QUOTE=DanTehMan;17892957]That's so strange, and and OP have extremely similar hardware.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I forgot what type of RAM I bought, but now I'm inclined to look it up.
edit: Damn I have kingston. Nonetheless, the builds are still very similiar.
its probably the CPU or the PSU(?) (doubt its the hard drives fault)
but like i said the program causing it is either winupdate or an AV (i think, there was a previous thread on this and i dont remember what the answer was)
My last update was at 11:10 P.M, and my anti-virus had nothing to do with aero shutting down for two minutes.
I bought G.Skill cause the blue memory heat sinks matched my blue heat sink on my Asus mobo.
I think it might be Windows Update as BananasGoMoo suggested or an ATI issue (being that it was a video issue)?
As for it being an ATi issue, we have different cards, and we probably live in different states. How would it be that our cards would have an internal problem that occured at the EXACT same time?
[QUOTE=Captain Chunk;17893051]I bought G.Skill cause the blue memory heat sinks matched my blue heat sink on my Asus mobo.
I think it might be Windows Update as BananasGoMoo suggested or an ATI issue (being that it was a video issue)?[/QUOTE]
i dont think its an ATI issue, because i have ATI, and a similar build to you guys,except i have an AMD CPU and a different PSU
unless you both have old drivers...
[QUOTE=TropicalV2;17893067]As for it being an ATi issue, we have different cards, and we probably live in different states. How would it be that our cards would have an internal problem that occured at the EXACT same time?[/QUOTE]
True. I'm out of ideas then, except the demon possession. :[
Now I'm paranoid that microsoft did something to my system.
Maybe they're turning our computers into their slaves to start a virtual war against Apple...
But in all seriousness, I don't see anything strange going on in the Task Manager, so it's probably nothing but a glitch in the OS that happened to occur at the same time for us. It's either a widespread glitch or just a coincidence.
And my ATI Catalyst version is 9.9
[QUOTE=Captain Chunk;17893149]Maybe they're turning our computers into their slaves to start a virtual war against Apple...
But in all seriousness, I don't see anything strange going on in the Task Manager, so it's probably nothing but a glitch in the OS that happened to occur at the same time for us. It's either a widespread glitch or just a coincidence.
And my ATI Catalyst version is 9.9[/QUOTE]
then i think its one of the windows utilities + the CPU or PSU doing something.
[QUOTE=BananasGoMoo;17893252]then i think its one of the windows utilities + the CPU or PSU doing something.[/QUOTE]
That's a crackpot theory, no offense.
[QUOTE=TropicalV2;17893409]That's a crackpot theory, no offense.[/QUOTE]
uh not really.
it happens on other people's windows 7 installs (that thread i mentioned) and you two have the same psu and cpu.
its a combination of one of those and your win7 install
because i have half of the same parts and don't have that problem.
Bring the PC priest.
something similar happened to me a few hours ago. i checked the process list and saw a weird process i never saw before: WinSAT.EXE. i turned it off and it was fixed.
anyway, that specific process is a part of the "Windows Experience Rating" so i wasn't worried. was weird though that it popped for no reason.
edit:
i searched the windows application logs and found out this in the time it occured:
"A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was made by process (Windows System Assessment Tool)"
which lead to "The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because composition was disabled by a running application"
you can check and see if you have the same thing logged.
[b]edit2: okay, further investigations lead me to the task scheduler, and there i found the reason. every sunday morning at 1:00 AM, winsat is scheduled to run. that's what caused it, and that's why we all had the same issue.[/b]
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Get that midget lady from the Poltergeist to say some really creepy stuff and release the spirits. Bonus points if you get sucked into a nether realm in your closet (and post pics of course) or if your house, which of course is built on an old native american graveyard, gets sucked into a vortex of nothingness.
Happened to me too, must have been that update.
I almost certain that dropp is correct. I looked through the Task Scheduler under "Task Scheduler Library" > Microsoft > Windows > Diagnosis and at 1 A.M. every Sunday, "The Windows Scheduled Maintenance Task performs periodic maintenance of the computer system by fixing problems automatically or reporting them through the Action Center." There are also [b]many[/b] other tasks that run at the same time as well as other times around that.
This happens when people facebook chat message me.
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