PC Gone Rogue

[tomuchinfo]

Very confused, My pc has started to exibit a strange behaviour in the last couple of weeks, the LAN ?internet icon on the task bar has suddenly taken to blinking and takes quite a few seconds to load a stable connection. at the same time google chrome started take a few seonds (once open) to load the word google with the search bar below. i did a fresh install of windows thinking something was corupt, all seemed fine, now its started again. both issues are new as everything used to be instantanious. I stoped evrything loading on start but makes no difference to the Lan connection behaviour or Google Any one any ideas

 

Internet 1GB connection up and down, that has tested fine

 

I run total av always have

 

I have never upgraded bios since building in 2022 (if it aint broke dont fix it)

 

I have tried the latest drivers for the board from msi same result.

 

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Corsaire 360AiO

MSi RTX 3080 ventus

MSi X570s wifi

Ryzen 5950x

64gb DDR4

1TB m.2 gen 4

4tb m.2 gen 3

[OddOod]

Welcome to the forums!

9 minutes ago, tomuchinfo said:

I run total av always have

Interesting decision given, you know, all of the bad stuff they do

But you do you

First step, have you powercycled your router and any switches between it and your PC? Could be that it's got some soft errors.
Have you tried a new ethernet cable? Cables can die. Somehow. Always worth a cable swap when troubleshooting
Do you have a lot of devices on your network? This can cause a crummy router to overload/overheat which can drop connections. One cheap solution would be to strap a case fan to it (you can get wall power to fan header things on Amazon)

[jaslion]

3 hours ago, tomuchinfo said:

I run total av always have

Yeah so remove that and run malwarebytes.

 

Totalav is a fake anti virus from a VERY WELL KNOWN group that MAKES VIRUSES AND MALWARE. They are a VERY WELL KNOWN SCAM.

 

So yeah remove that from the pc ASAP. Wouldn't be too surprised if that is not helping here.

 

You might also just have a broken ethernet cable or one that is flaky. But well I'd start with removing an obvious issue to see what that does. Considering a fresh install helped before the total av could properly infect all of the system I'd say it will probably be causing issues.

[kb5zue]

I have tried just about every anti-virus there is and after doing all that, I have decided to not even use a "bought" anti-virus and I just use the built-in anti-virus of Microsoft Defender.  People have their own opinions and that's fine, but I have not had a single issue with any virus of any kind while using it.  To each his own.

 

Take care and good luck.

[jaslion]

23 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

Microsoft Defender

It's genuinly pretty good and indeed everyone has their own opinions.

 

However totalav is legit a scam as the company behind it is a known maker of adware/malware and totalav is euhh less than clean. Also they do the typical uncancelled able subscription scam bs to heaps of users. So yeah hence my recommendation.

[KidKid]

4 hours ago, tomuchinfo said:

Very confused, My pc has started to exibit a strange behaviour in the last couple of weeks, the LAN ?internet icon on the task bar has suddenly taken to blinking and takes quite a few seconds to load a stable connection. at the same time google chrome started take a few seonds (once open) to load the word google with the search bar below. i did a fresh install of windows thinking something was corupt, all seemed fine, now its started again. both issues are new as everything used to be instantanious. I stoped evrything loading on start but makes no difference to the Lan connection behaviour or Google Any one any ideas

 

Internet 1GB connection up and down, that has tested fine

 

I run total av always have

 

I have never upgraded bios since building in 2022 (if it aint broke dont fix it)

 

I have tried the latest drivers for the board from msi same result.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/all/gallery/xf3PA0GHQBG2WNumU6eG_w

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/all/gallery/2tay9FQURWy-tO6VLRbTtg

 

Corsaire 360AiO

MSi RTX 3080 ventus

MSi X570s wifi

Ryzen 5950x

64gb DDR4

1TB m.2 gen 4

4tb m.2 gen 3

Maybe the network/wifi drivers, or the wifi/network card or the mobo. Im not sure though

[Mark Kaine]

8 hours ago, tomuchinfo said:

I run total av always have

uninstall / reinstall windows, then use defender instead. 

 

 

[tomuchinfo]

On 11/15/2024 at 12:12 AM, KidKid said:

Maybe the network/wifi drivers, or the wifi/network card or the mobo. Im not sure though

I did think this, i might roll back the LAN driver.

[tomuchinfo]

On 11/15/2024 at 4:02 AM, Mark Kaine said:

uninstall / reinstall windows, then use defender instead. 

 

 

I tried that but still had the issue

[tomuchinfo]

On 11/14/2024 at 11:43 PM, kb5zue said:

I have tried just about every anti-virus there is and after doing all that, I have decided to not even use a "bought" anti-virus and I just use the built-in anti-virus of Microsoft Defender.  People have their own opinions and that's fine, but I have not had a single issue with any virus of any kind while using it.  To each his own.

 

Take care and good luck.

Thanks will give it go after some of the other suggestions, like changing cable, reboot evrything etc.

[tomuchinfo]

On 11/15/2024 at 12:08 AM, jaslion said:

It's genuinly pretty good and indeed everyone has their own opinions.

 

However totalav is legit a scam as the company behind it is a known maker of adware/malware and totalav is euhh less than clean. Also they do the typical uncancelled able subscription scam bs to heaps of users. So yeah hence my recommendation.

I have always had a good deal though £35 for full suite plus 8 licences

[tomuchinfo]

On 11/14/2024 at 7:53 PM, OddOod said:

Welcome to the forums!

Interesting decision given, you know, all of the bad stuff they do

But you do you

First step, have you powercycled your router and any switches between it and your PC? Could be that it's got some soft errors.
Have you tried a new ethernet cable? Cables can die. Somehow. Always worth a cable swap when troubleshooting
Do you have a lot of devices on your network? This can cause a crummy router to overload/overheat which can drop connections. One cheap solution would be to strap a case fan to it (you can get wall power to fan header things on Amazon)

Wll give this ago cheers

[kld360]

In Search box on the taskbar, type msconfig. ...
Select Services tab, then select Hide all Microsoft services.
Select each of the check boxes in the upper half of the Service list.
Select OK, then select Restart.

[tomuchinfo]

Thanks all for the help, uninstalled TotalAV, Uninstalled Icue, Uninstalled Nord VPN, Ran Malwerebytes found 8 somethings which i quarentined, New LAN cable. Deleted reloded LAN drivers. All worked immediate connection, Google now starting correctly. Have re-installed Icue and Nord, still stable :):) Should i try Total AV again :):):)

[kb5zue]

Should i try Total AV again :):):)

 

NO!!!!!

[OddOod]

On 11/17/2024 at 2:02 PM, tomuchinfo said:

Should i try Total AV again :):):)

NO

[Tridefender]

Are you using the lan connection on your motherboard? If so, how old is your motherboard?

How old is your lan cable?

Is this "slow down" happening to all devices (including phones, laptops over wifi) in your household?