Pc suddenly started lagging like crazy

[RivenHD]

So basically whatever I do causes my computer to lag. Everything gets unresponsive and slow. Even the sound starts lagging. Especially when gaming. 

Also everytime I boot my computer, it goes into sort of a bootloop after it goes past the BIOS screen, it just starts booting up again and again for like 5 times before actually starting up "normally"

No errors, messages or anything like that.

 

No major changes to my setup done, or happened before this started to happen. Monitoring resources didn't help because everything appears to be normal (ram, cpu, hdd etc.)

 

Setup:

 

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

 

-Mobo: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 rev. 2

-CPU: i7-920@4GHz

-RAM: 8GB Corsair vengeance

-GPU: GTX 650Ti OC

 

 

Thanks in advance!

[Kobrastachka]

MOBO problem?

[XtremeTechGaming]

It might be malware or too many background apps

[RivenHD]

It might be malware or too many background apps

Could a malware actually cause booting problems?  :blink:

[Jade]

Could a malware actually cause booting problems?  :blink:

Yes.

[Shadow-R]

So basically whatever I do causes my computer to lag. Everything gets unresponsive and slow. Even the sound starts lagging. Especially when gaming. 

Also everytime I boot my computer, it goes into sort of a bootloop after it goes past the BIOS screen, it just starts booting up again and again for like 5 times before actually starting up "normally"

No errors, messages or anything like that.

 

No major changes to my setup done, or happened before this started to happen. Monitoring resources didn't help because everything appears to be normal (ram, cpu, hdd etc.)

 

Setup:

 

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

 

-Mobo: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 rev. 2

-CPU: i7-920@4GHz

-RAM: 8GB Corsair vengeance

-GPU: GTX 650Ti OC

 

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Terve!

I also had the problem that my mainboard needed multiple tries to boot.

In my case it was a defective BIOS, so your mainboard appears defective.

I do not think that malware is doing this, because you do not have anything on your drive that is already used.

You can unplug it and see if it is better than. 

For the lag on your system (when booted up), I recommend doing a virus scan and if this reveals nothing than you could use an other HDD (should you have one lying around) and just use a fresh OS, so you can see if there is a problem in the system.

Should you have a problem in the system, you can try things like Ccleaner, but please be carefull not to break anything you need.

Hope I could help you with this.

Sayonara!

Shadow

[RivenHD]

Terve!

I also had the problem that my mainboard needed multiple tries to boot.

In my case it was a defective BIOS, so your mainboard appears defective.

I do not think that malware is doing this, because you do not have anything on your drive that is already used.

You can unplug it and see if it is better than. 

For the lag on your system (when booted up), I recommend doing a virus scan and if this reveals nothing than you could use an other HDD (should you have one lying around) and just use a fresh OS, so you can see if there is a problem in the system.

Should you have a problem in the system, you can try things like Ccleaner, but please be carefull not to break anything you need.

Hope I could help you with this.

Sayonara!

Shadow

 

Hey! Thanks for your reply! The bootup problem has something to do with the general slowness of the system as they started happening exactly the same time. I'm currently running full system virus scans. 

 

PS. You said Hi in my native language

[RivenHD]

The cause of the problem was my RAM. After changing it to an older 4GB stick, everything started working normally.