PC Random Crashing

[Elliot6267]

Recently I have been having a few issues with my PC.

every now and again, and it is becoming a lot more frequent, the computer will sort of... crash. Something crashes and the display goes **** up, starts flickering between a black screen and back to the screen, but clearly trying to load something. the cursor is barely movable during this... the only way I have found to stop this is to reboot the system, or as I have been doing, put the PC on standby using the keyboard, then re loading it.

this is becoming a huge nuisance!

any audio playing in whilst this happens will continue to play undisrupted, but wont usually load the next song....

I originally thought it might be a loose connection or overheating on the graphics card, but have disconnected and reconnected and the problem still occurs....

somebody please help!!!

 

[Tomtom3989]

How long have you had your os installed
Sometimes malware or a virus can have extremely similar effects to a bad driver
so reinstalling everything from scratch can be the best thing to do

and have you made a changes to your hardware or drivers recently

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Hi,

Firstly, downland and install Cccleaner. Use the "Run Cleaner" function to remove any unwanted temp files etc.. Then using the same utility, look for any suspicious entries in the startup list (Start up under tools). Google any entries that you are not familiar with. Disable non-essential items (you can delete these later if the change had no bad effect).

Download and install Spy-bot S&D. Runs this under safe mode. This will check for known spyware.

If that hasn't worked, then check your program list for suspicious items. Look through he Windows Program folder. Check also AppData in your user profile (this is normally hidden)

IF no joy, then you can download an install HiJack this. Run again in safe mode, creating a .txt file. Then run again in normal move to another .txt file. After which , you can compare for any differences. Verify the different entries with google removing any suspicious items. This is quite painstaking but can be worth while.

Lastly, as TomTOm suggests, it could be a driver problem. The system Roll back is often overlooked. Roll back the system to a date that you knew everything was OK (your data remains intact). If the problem is sorted, then re-install/update drivers again. If the problem re-occurs then you'll know the culprit, otherwise you may have just had some undedicated malware.

I had a laptop brought to me the other day. Nasty thing that neither MS essential or Spybot picked up. I deleted a suspicious item in AppData and rolled the system back 20 days. All sorted.