Computer issues

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-01-09 02:58am

Alright, as of late my computer has been having a few odd issues, first and foremost of which is the following.

The screen freezes for several seconds, then unfreezes again for a few more. Then it freezes oncemore, and may unfreeze, and often the screen then goes black, and either shuts down temporarily, or the system crashes and reboots.

Anyone know what the fuck is going on?

Braedley · Post by **Braedley** » 2008-01-09 01:57pm

First guesses are heat and malware. Either that or you're running some resource intensive process that's crapping out and causing a BSOD.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-01-09 08:39pm

Don't think it's overheating, solved that issue before this began (The day before, so could it possibly be permanent damage caused by the 70C temperatures?), and malware seems fairly unlikely, but I'll check on that. Mostly happens when playing WoW, but WoW never used to cause such issues. (Not anytihng intensive either, just roleplaying, so it's not like I'm doing AV with explosions and spell effects everywhere.)

MJ12 Commando · Post by **MJ12 Commando** » 2008-01-10 02:08am

Try checking if it's your video card going on the fritz? Is it old or otherwise problematic?

First try reinstalling your vid card drivers. Maybe that might help, maybe it won't. I had something similar caused from driver incompatibilities that ended up eventually fucking my laptop over.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2008-01-11 02:10pm

Listen to your hard drive. If its making odd noises, chances are you're trying to read/write to a bad sector on the drive.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-01-11 08:23pm

Resinstalled my drivers recently, so no go there, and it's a good solid drive (7900 GS.). Hard drives aren't having any issues, but I've started to have the boot up just stop before it checks for IDE devices, so I'm thinking mobo damage now.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-01-19 09:36pm

Okay, having resorted to desperation and enabled the dreaded BSoD, it turns out to be my nv4_disp that's screwing up. So either my drivers are corrupt after multiple reinstalls, or my card is, in fact, dying.

Braedley · Post by **Braedley** » 2008-01-19 11:57pm

Yeah, always totally uninstall video drivers, restart, install new drivers, then restart again. Especially with windows. That may not actually be your problem, but it will eliminate that possibility in the future.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-01-20 02:32am

Completely uninstalled them again (Using the uninstall program, of course), rebooted, installed, rebooted. Still happening. So it's my card dying, sadly, or possibly ATI driver remnants clinging to my system.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-01-23 08:14pm

Update: Appears to be overheating, which is odd, but promising and hopeful!