Strange booting behaviour

Maciej Salamon

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Oct 1, 2013
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My Pc is behaving rather strange lately:

Every day when I switch it on in the morning, Win8 loads up fine and with a 99% probability freezes a short time after startup. The time varies, it might be 30 seconds after logging on, it might be 2 minutes.
Then the system becomes increasingly unresponsive - processes (like browsers) open and freeze, parts of the desktop become frozen in their last spot etc.
The mouse cursor works all the time, btw.
The only possible solution is to press reset.

After the second boot up of the day, everything works fine. No problems whatsoever with the system.

Until the next time I need to switch the system off for a longer time.

So - is it a Windows problem and solvable by refreshing / reinstalling, or is a hardware problem probable? Some sort of electrical charge on the motherboard which fades after the first reset and then builds up overnight?

I'm really puzzled and would appreciate some help.

Thanks in advance,

Mac
 
mac is this a new build or an older pc?? if it a new build it could be a hard drive that stalling or a part using the same memory or irq rang. if it a part you can try updating your mb see if it a bios bug. for the drive run hard drive vendor test tool and hd tune to check the drive smart info. on older mb it can be a weak cmos battery causing the mb to lose it info and forcing windows to reset hardware on cold post.
 

Maciej Salamon

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Oct 1, 2013
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Thanks for the idea. Sounds like a possibility. The motherboard is nearly 4 years old.
I changed the CMOS battery today. Of course I have to wait till tomorrow to see if it actually helped ;)
 

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