Urgent Problem !

Hairboi · 13 Mar 2009 at 19:41

About 1 hour ago i was playing counterstrike source and it kept freezing for a few seconds then resuming, every 10 seconds or so, i thought it was just this one time, then it started doing it in windows, i rebooted, BSOD'd over and over, so i reformatted. However it started doing the same again, however seems to have settled down for now, but does anyone have an idea what hardware failure could cause this? Sorry i couldn't get the BSOD code, i was in a hurry.

simbady · 13 Mar 2009 at 19:43

Check your RAM for errors using Memtest
Also have you got the lastest graphics drivers?

Ucof · 13 Mar 2009 at 19:45

"i rebooted, BSOD'd over and over, so i reformatted" - Bit on the hasty side there!

www.memtest86.com

Sounds like it could be faulty RAM.

How hot are your components?
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Let us know how you get on

Hairboi · 13 Mar 2009 at 20:07

When i ctrl+alt+delete , my cpu seems to be running between 20%-50% constantly, even if i'm not doing anything that intense...i guess this is causing the freezes and sluggishness, but what's causing the high cpu

simbady · 13 Mar 2009 at 20:10

hit processes and under cpu click the tab so that the thing thats using the most cpu goes to the top.

Ucof · 13 Mar 2009 at 20:10

Which anti malware programs have you got installed?

sketch145 · 13 Mar 2009 at 20:16

sounds like too many background/windows processes running in the background.

try rambooster it's a very lightweight app for freeing up some RAM (won't do any good if it's faulty though)

Ucof · 13 Mar 2009 at 20:19

Freeing up some RAM.... will that not just get filled up again by the program that was causing the problem in the first place?

Hairboi · 13 Mar 2009 at 20:32

Well, i checked using process explorer, and it's 'hardware interrupts' that's the culprit, how do i stop this and what does it do?

Ucof · 13 Mar 2009 at 20:41

Surely that should be "what does it do, and can I stop it? If so, how?" rather than "how do I stop this and what does it do?"

Have a read of this: http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7775