This'll be the first time I've ever used this part of the forum, howdy.
So, the issue started about half a month ago. Since then, and having increased in severity, tons of programs started freezing intermittently, including ones that were idle or not doing anything remotely taxing on my PC (Starcraft 2, windows explorer, steam, chrome, opera, task manager, basically everything). The hangs last between 20 seconds up to 1.5 minutes roughly, and it brings up the little windows loading wheel ([t]http://www.heptagon.se/images/aero_light.gif[/t]). If I interact with the freezing window it'll just do that aero thing where it goes white and tells me the program's not responding. After it's done everything'll continue as normal with no apparent loss of stuff. I'm able to alt-tab and windows-tab out of hanging windows unless it's a fullscreened thing. I can't seem to replicate it but the freezes generally only happen when or shortly after I've done something with the program.
For some context, my CPU had overheated up to 90° about a week to a few days before, but that was fixed. I feel like heat damage might have something to do with it. Despite this, it came up fine following a PerformanceTest run.
Also, earlier today I tried all my RAM sticks individually to make sure it wasn't a memory thing, but the same hangs were experienced with each stick (four in total) independently.
I'll post whatever logs are needed, it's just a hassle to find them all ahead of time. As of now an MSE scan came up with nothing and a MalwareBytes one is running atm.
Specs:
Operating System MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz 48 °C
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM
16.0 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 (CPUSocket) 29 °C
Graphics
Philips 221E (1920x1080@60Hz)
1024MB GeForce GTX 560 (ASUStek Computer Inc) 48 °C
1024MB GeForce GTX 560 (ASUStek Computer Inc) 26 °C
ForceWare version 314.07
SLI Enabled
Hard Drives
1863GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT166 ATA Device (SATA) 27 °C
112GB Kingston KINGSTON SVP200S37A120G ATA Device (SSD)
I'm sure there's a really obvious solution that my dummy brain has failed to figure out, so sorry in advance!
Sounds like something could have glitched out in Windows or something is using a large amount of resources in the background, use task manager to monitor CPU and memory usage of applications when things start freezing
I recommend using resource monitor (just type it in start menu search) to see what spikes the CPU/memory. Task manager doesn't show everything, including services.
Also some guy had a problem with his SSD freezing applications one-by-one iirc, make sure it's not your SSD causing it.
If these won't help keep a log for all the temperatures.
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