Wonder if someone could point in the right direction here...
I installed Windows 8 x64 just after Christmas and all was well, actually quite liked the OS after getting used to the changes.
More recently the PC has started behaving oddly - which it never used to do with Win 7.
- It won't always go to sleep properly (hangs for ages and sometimes turns off)
- It won't always shut down properly (BSOD or the same hang and eventually power down)
- Random stuttering when playing video
- Random high CPU usage from a system process that needs a restart to resolve.
And just the other evening, after a reboot, it would get to the desktop (i think) but there'd be no display. I ended up having to do a 'refresh' and reinstall all my programs to get it working again. I probably could have gone into Safe Mode and uninstalled/reinstalled the driver...if I could figure out how to actually get into safe mode
I think one of the HDDs has died (can't format, can't access files and scan reporting bad sectors) but this isn't the system drive - but its still connected to the system.
Specs:
E6600
Asus D5H Deluxe Mobo
4GB RAM
nVidia 8800GS
Any ideas? Does it sound like a driver thing or hardware?
I installed Windows 8 x64 just after Christmas and all was well, actually quite liked the OS after getting used to the changes.
More recently the PC has started behaving oddly - which it never used to do with Win 7.
- It won't always go to sleep properly (hangs for ages and sometimes turns off)
- It won't always shut down properly (BSOD or the same hang and eventually power down)
- Random stuttering when playing video
- Random high CPU usage from a system process that needs a restart to resolve.
And just the other evening, after a reboot, it would get to the desktop (i think) but there'd be no display. I ended up having to do a 'refresh' and reinstall all my programs to get it working again. I probably could have gone into Safe Mode and uninstalled/reinstalled the driver...if I could figure out how to actually get into safe mode
I think one of the HDDs has died (can't format, can't access files and scan reporting bad sectors) but this isn't the system drive - but its still connected to the system.
Specs:
E6600
Asus D5H Deluxe Mobo
4GB RAM
nVidia 8800GS
Any ideas? Does it sound like a driver thing or hardware?
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