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Keviin wrote on 2010-12-29 13:15
Since yesterday morning, my computer has had a case of chronic high cpu utilization. It randomly starts lagging, causing the mouse to flicker when I try to move it and scrolling down webpages will cause a "repainting" effect. I don't know exactly what happened, so I'm going to tell everything that happened yesterday. Please bear with me.
It was rather sudden though, because I was playing TF2 just fine yesterday morning. After I finished playing TF2, I opened up L4D2 and noticed that it was loading extremely slowly. Joining a game was even slower. I couldn't take it anymore so I closed the process. My computer was still lagging, so I just restarted, assuming it would be fine like usual. Loading up windows took a good 2 minutes, and when I got to the desktop I saw my anti-virus(avast) had all its shields and services disabled. Thinking it was a virus(I have no idea if it was or not), I rebooted into safe mode, which froze as it was loading all of windows' files. Eventually it restarted and I got an error saying "A disk read error has occured. Press ctrl alt del to restart." I decided to try and reformat my computer, but i kept getting a message saying that the partition or drive was damaged. After exiting the installer, I received a different error saying "Error loading operating system." I was then stuck, unable to reformat and unable to log in. I opened up my computer and unplugged and replugged the hard drive a couple times. Eventually I was able to reformat. However, after reinstalling windows, it still gets the strange high cpu utilization. I honestly have no idea what is wrong with it. Can anyone tell me what might be wrong? Or at least give me a guess?
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Taycat wrote on 2010-12-29 13:19
It could really be a virus. Just because you reformat does NOT mean a virus is dead. There are advanced ones now that can stick inside like a bad toothache....
http://www.overclock.net/windows/710981-virus-causing-high-cpu-usage.html
Try to read that topic ^
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Keviin wrote on 2010-12-29 18:05
I just did a full system scan with avast and found nothing... :<
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Zack wrote on 2010-12-29 18:24
Is your memory almost full?
When did you last clean the inside of it out? My laptop went extremely laggy and slow until i air dusted it out.
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Okami wrote on 2010-12-29 19:01
Besides a Virus scan, also try a spyware scan....
I use Spyware Terminator. It does the job.
Also, you can check your processes. Find out which one is eating all your memory.
Open the Task Manager, Go to the tab Processes and then look.
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gentrone wrote on 2010-12-29 23:58
I recommend you run
CCleaner immediately. Also, install
Microsoft Security Essentials. Additionaly, for extra security, run
Malwarebytes.
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Paul wrote on 2010-12-30 00:36
Hmm, not sure if you even bothered to check or maybe you already have but whats running on your Task Manager at the highest CPU and Mem Usage while your games up?