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What the hell is going on with this PC.

nothing untoward downloaded (28 running processes and all check out ok)

Nothing obvious in the task manager using the CPU yet it hovers around 54% on one core.

I started removing the installed components to try and track it down (java, flash, itunes, adobe reader etc)

Reboot the pc and windows fails to starts AGAIN

Back to bloody square one

Anyone have a box of matches and a gallon of four star.:mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
there were no big numbers in there no.

It caught my eye when I did another HD tune test on the raptors read/write ability. I had a saved one (prnt screen ) from yesterday that showed the CPU at 1.6%
now it's closer to 60%

No matter anyway, something is seriously ******* and I can't boot into windows at all now, so I'm back to where the pc was on Thursday when it crashed. :(
Just finished a clean install too , spent all bloody weekend on it :(
 
It was a repair install that caused the major catastrophe on Thursday, all I originally lost was a sound driver and was hoping for a quick fix.

There's more here than meets the eye, I think there is a borked DIMM in there maybe.
I've been going round in circles with the thing since the start of the weekend.
 
that's the first thing i did alongside googling all the processes to see what they were.
It never budged from 50 odd%

Then I started looking elsewhere, namely the add remove manager, deleted all the stuff I had installed and now it POSTS but restarts when windows splash screen appears.

CPU utilisation is in the task bar when task manager is running ;)
 
Will try safe mode tonight but I'm pretty sure I tried that when it first crashed and it still wouldn't boot.

Booting into a floppy of memtest and the thing is crashing.. for 25 ish quid it's no biggy if I have to buy some more RAM, if the ones in there aren't borked I'll have 4Gb :D
 
Nick644622 said:
Anything scanning (for virus/spyware) & I don't suppose there is any background folding going on per chance ?
Click to expand...

lol, nope the folding is on my PS3.
No anti virus or anti spyware loaded, and it hadn't been on the web other than windows update site.

It was a fresh OS install on Sunday after crashing fatally on Thursday.

Ok close the thread anyway.. The machine is FUBAR now anyway so all this is academic.
 
FUBAR in that it won't boot and I feel I have too many threads going based around the same problem.
I think I'll stick to general hardware as I haven't actually found the base of the problems yet.


Andy
 
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