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Weird issue with my computer
12 years ago
-English-
I'm making this journal because I'm a bit worried about my comp, there is this problem that happens to it which isn't anything big (yet, but I'm afriad it will get worse).
The issue itself is that my comp randomly starts to 'slow' down till everything is frozen, the first hint of the 'frozing' process to happen is when my music from windows media players randomly stops, and then all the other programs starts to go slow and then my mouse will also to move slow 'till it can't be moved anymore and everything is frozen, most of the time this only last for like a minute or so and then stuff gets back to normal (I almost lost some progress of a lineart I was working on). But just a few minutes ago the issue happened twice, and in the third time my screen looked all broken so I had to turn off my comp and turn it on again and choose to option to start windows normally. For now everything is working fine but I'm afraid it will get worse and I have no idea what is the cause of this!
Gosh darn it technology, you are so complicted sometimes.
-Portugurs-
Estou fazendo esse journal pq estou um pouco preocupada com o meu pc, tem esse problema que acontece que nao é nada grave no momento (ainda, mas tenho medo que va piorar).
O problema em si é que meu computador aleatoria mente começa a ficar 'devagar' ate que tudo fique travado, o primeiro sinal so processo de 'travar' é quando minha musica do windows media player para de tocar aleatoriamente, e dai todos os outros programas começam a ficar devagar e entao meu mouse tambem começa a ficar devagar ate que ele nao se meche mais e tudo esta travado, maioria das vezes isso so dura entre um minuto e dai as coisas voltam ao normal (eu quase perdi o progresso de uma lineart que eu estava trabalhando). Mas alguns minutos atras eu tive esse problema duas vezes, e na terceira vez minha tela parecia toda quebrada entao tive que desligar o pc e ligar de novo e iniciar o windows normalmente. Por enquanto tudo esta trabalhando direito mas estou com medo que fique pior por que nao faço ideia qual é a causa disso!
Gosh darn tecnologia, voce é tao complicada as vezes.
I'm making this journal because I'm a bit worried about my comp, there is this problem that happens to it which isn't anything big (yet, but I'm afriad it will get worse).
The issue itself is that my comp randomly starts to 'slow' down till everything is frozen, the first hint of the 'frozing' process to happen is when my music from windows media players randomly stops, and then all the other programs starts to go slow and then my mouse will also to move slow 'till it can't be moved anymore and everything is frozen, most of the time this only last for like a minute or so and then stuff gets back to normal (I almost lost some progress of a lineart I was working on). But just a few minutes ago the issue happened twice, and in the third time my screen looked all broken so I had to turn off my comp and turn it on again and choose to option to start windows normally. For now everything is working fine but I'm afraid it will get worse and I have no idea what is the cause of this!
Gosh darn it technology, you are so complicted sometimes.
-Portugurs-
Estou fazendo esse journal pq estou um pouco preocupada com o meu pc, tem esse problema que acontece que nao é nada grave no momento (ainda, mas tenho medo que va piorar).
O problema em si é que meu computador aleatoria mente começa a ficar 'devagar' ate que tudo fique travado, o primeiro sinal so processo de 'travar' é quando minha musica do windows media player para de tocar aleatoriamente, e dai todos os outros programas começam a ficar devagar e entao meu mouse tambem começa a ficar devagar ate que ele nao se meche mais e tudo esta travado, maioria das vezes isso so dura entre um minuto e dai as coisas voltam ao normal (eu quase perdi o progresso de uma lineart que eu estava trabalhando). Mas alguns minutos atras eu tive esse problema duas vezes, e na terceira vez minha tela parecia toda quebrada entao tive que desligar o pc e ligar de novo e iniciar o windows normalmente. Por enquanto tudo esta trabalhando direito mas estou com medo que fique pior por que nao faço ideia qual é a causa disso!
Gosh darn tecnologia, voce é tao complicada as vezes.
Anyway, we could start clearing up a possible issue easy to spot: overheating. Download this software and tell me what are max temperatures while you do your usual stuff.
http://openhardwaremonitor.org/
For diagnosing the hard drive, you could either download a software from the manufacturer website, or use this marvelous computer repair tool I call: Hiren's Boot CD.
http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/
You download it, your burn it on a blank CD and you boot your computer with this CD in your drive. You have tons of tools to try. There are 2 tools that you should try: Memtest86+ and a hard drive testing software corresponding to your hard drive brand.
Get Seatools and run it:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articl.....S/FAQ/202435en
It's supposed to work for all manufacturers. I've always preferred the DOS way as it gets a direct and exclusive access to the hard drive which is a little faster, but I guess the Windows version can do the job as well. Good luck. ^'===='^
What I would do is open the tast manager (ctrl + alt + del)
And switch over to the CPU and main memory usage tab, also sort the processes by CPU time in the column.
I would keep an eye on that window and see what the readouts are when it slows down, and see if there is a CPU hungry process gobbling up resources and go from there