Jack Nitro
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It all started when i was playing a game. It started loading a level and froze. Command prompt, tab-shift-alt, and all the normal remedies failed to unfreeze it, so I was forced to force shut-off my computer.
After it rebooted, i was asked to do a checkdisk scan. I accepted, and it made some repairs. Everything seemed fine after this, so I restarted the game. It was running fine for about 20 minutes, but the framerate suddenly dropped to a crawl and wouldn't improve.
I restarted my computer again, and I was asked to do a checkdisk scan again. I waited as it made more repairs. When the computer finished booting up, the cpu was straining itself (my taskmanager clocked it at a constant 100%) and everything significantly slowed down, including games.
Every time i restart it now, I get a checkdisk popup, everything goes slower, and all of these programs suddenly stop working:
Also, anytime that I right click on a folder or icon, Windows Explorer crashes!
However, the framerates for games seem back to normal, and the cpu appears to be running at normal speed again.
To try and find the problem, I rebooted the computer in safe mode. Everything that works normally in safe mode seemed to be working as usual (except that i was never asked for elevation for tasks that normally required it - I don't know if thats normal for safe mode, but thats what happened), so I ran some virus scans with Avast, Avira, and Ad-Aware. They all reported and removed a few infections, but that didn't seem to change anything, since all the same problems still exist.
So, here I am. Does anyone here know what could be causing all of this? Is there a possible fix for it? One tat doesn't envolve restoring a backup? I do have a backup, but its incomplete (only about 4/5 done, i had to stop it early), and I don't have another copy of windows, since this is a refurbished computer.
Any help would be incomprehensibly appreciated.
Jack
After it rebooted, i was asked to do a checkdisk scan. I accepted, and it made some repairs. Everything seemed fine after this, so I restarted the game. It was running fine for about 20 minutes, but the framerate suddenly dropped to a crawl and wouldn't improve.
I restarted my computer again, and I was asked to do a checkdisk scan again. I waited as it made more repairs. When the computer finished booting up, the cpu was straining itself (my taskmanager clocked it at a constant 100%) and everything significantly slowed down, including games.
Every time i restart it now, I get a checkdisk popup, everything goes slower, and all of these programs suddenly stop working:
Also, anytime that I right click on a folder or icon, Windows Explorer crashes!
However, the framerates for games seem back to normal, and the cpu appears to be running at normal speed again.
To try and find the problem, I rebooted the computer in safe mode. Everything that works normally in safe mode seemed to be working as usual (except that i was never asked for elevation for tasks that normally required it - I don't know if thats normal for safe mode, but thats what happened), so I ran some virus scans with Avast, Avira, and Ad-Aware. They all reported and removed a few infections, but that didn't seem to change anything, since all the same problems still exist.
So, here I am. Does anyone here know what could be causing all of this? Is there a possible fix for it? One tat doesn't envolve restoring a backup? I do have a backup, but its incomplete (only about 4/5 done, i had to stop it early), and I don't have another copy of windows, since this is a refurbished computer.
Any help would be incomprehensibly appreciated.
Jack
