Computer behaving strangely....

[wizardofzak]

Hi guys,

So over the last few weeks my computer has been acting very weird. Things I've noticed:

Sometimes pc wont boot into windows. Gets stuck on bios screen with no hard drive activity. Turning off power at power supply allows me to reboot into windows.

Computer is randomly at 100% load and during this time it is very slow.

Quitting games is very slow, screens go funny and hard drive is at 100% load when i quit.

Just now my far cry 4 frame rate plummeted for no reason and did not recover even after a restart of the game. Thought it could be thermal throttling but temperatures are fine.

Screens occasionally go black and stay that way until reboot.

 

I've scanned for viruses which made no change.

 

Specs:

asus m5a 78l-m usb3 motherboard.

amd fx 8350 at stock speeds

gtx 970

6gb dell ram

1tb quite old hard drive

600 watt corsair psu cx 600

I think my hard drive is dying and that is causing my problems, however I don't understand the frame rate issue and some of the other things that are happening.

 

Thank you for any help in advance,

[manikyath]

two questions here:

with what did you scan for virusses?

did any of the parts come from an old machine that broke?

[Leonard]

Do a system defrag and optimization which means to run CCleaner.

[Leonard]

Do a system defrag and optimization which means to run CCleaner and report back.

[Elliott Game]

probably your Hard Drive about to die, quickily do a backup than defrag it! reboot, if it's still slow run ccleaner and reboot, if it's still slow than it's probs you'r HDD

[wizardofzak]

I've defragged several times in the last few weeks. I'm relieved its just the hard drive though because I thought my CPU was dying. The hard drive is also very old so I don't mind replacing it too much. 2 questions:

How to prolong the life of the drive for as long as possible? And when I buy a new hard drive, how do I transfer all my data and my OS? The OS transfer is most important, I don't care much for the data.

[wizardofzak]

two questions here:

with what did you scan for virusses?

did any of the parts come from an old machine that broke?

AVG and windows defender. And no but the hard drive was from an old machine. Although not too old since it uses a sata data cable.

[manikyath]

AVG and windows defender. And no but the hard drive was from an old machine. Although not too old since it uses a sata data cable.

try scanning with malwarebytes, avg is mehh, and windows defender is a plain joke...

 

http://www.malwarebytes.org/  get the free version for a quick scan

[Elliott Game]

try scanning with malwarebytes, avg is mehh, and windows defender is a plain joke...

 

http://www.malwarebytes.org/  get the free version for a quick scan

and use bitdefender free editing as a realtime scanner/protection

[Elliott Game]

I've defragged several times in the last few weeks. I'm relieved its just the hard drive though because I thought my CPU was dying. The hard drive is also very old so I don't mind replacing it too much. 2 questions:

How to prolong the life of the drive for as long as possible? And when I buy a new hard drive, how do I transfer all my data and my OS? The OS transfer is most important, I don't care much for the data.

your cpu dosen't die overtime, it just dies

[wizardofzak]

Thanks for the help guys, trying malwarebytes now.