- Aug 25, 2014
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My win 8 system has been running quite poorly as of late. It will be running beautifully, and then suddenly bogs down. Programs will stop responding, usually recover, but not always. FPS in games drops, from near 100 in SW:TOR to 0-10 fps. I've also seen Chrome's pages turning white if i'm not on them... but I assume that is a separate chrome issue.
So before we get started, specs!
CPU: i5 2500k, stock clocks.
Mobo: Z68XP-UD3
Memory: 2x4 DDR3
GPU: 6870 2gb GDDR5
Storage: 1tb HDD...don't remember the model number at the time.
Keep in mind, when these issues began, I had made no new changes to my system.
So I've scanned my drive for malware with Malwareantibytes, SAS, Defender, Kaspersky online, Nod32 online, ran adware and junkware cleaners. None of them found anything. So I zero'd the drive and did a fresh install of Win 8.1 The problem continues. I scanned my Harddrive with Seagate tools (short test) and I've ran the Windows Memory Test. Everything has checked out. I've updated the drivers as well, ran chkdsks and sfc/scannows Nothing.
I checked my CPU temps, they were high (at times reaching over 90c) so I replied thermal paste and dropped the temps massively and the problem still persists.
I have cleaned out my internals, so I don't believe it is a heat issue of any sort.
I have noticed quite a bit of hard drive activity, the disk light flashes a lot, but as I said the disc checks out.
While gaming, I have opened the Resource Monitor and found that whenever my system bogs down, programs not responding etc, my Hard Faults/sec go through the rough. 300-3k+ Every time. While my memory isn't full used yet, running around 40-60%. And when this happens, my HDD light goes berserk and my drive activity goes up. I've found that this happens not only when gaming, but when Chrome hangs, or anything else. Every last thing on this hangs and freezes. Opening the charms bar lags or wouldn't happen, searching for a program in search is very delayed. Typing takes ages to show up when it's lagging, etc.
My only thought is that it's either the Hard Drive or Memory, but both have checked out.
So...any thoughts? I'm genuinely at a loss, and can only imagine it's my hard-drive or memory.
Edit: Sorry if this is the wrong sub-forum, mods please move if it is.
So before we get started, specs!
CPU: i5 2500k, stock clocks.
Mobo: Z68XP-UD3
Memory: 2x4 DDR3
GPU: 6870 2gb GDDR5
Storage: 1tb HDD...don't remember the model number at the time.
Keep in mind, when these issues began, I had made no new changes to my system.
So I've scanned my drive for malware with Malwareantibytes, SAS, Defender, Kaspersky online, Nod32 online, ran adware and junkware cleaners. None of them found anything. So I zero'd the drive and did a fresh install of Win 8.1 The problem continues. I scanned my Harddrive with Seagate tools (short test) and I've ran the Windows Memory Test. Everything has checked out. I've updated the drivers as well, ran chkdsks and sfc/scannows Nothing.
I checked my CPU temps, they were high (at times reaching over 90c) so I replied thermal paste and dropped the temps massively and the problem still persists.
I have cleaned out my internals, so I don't believe it is a heat issue of any sort.
I have noticed quite a bit of hard drive activity, the disk light flashes a lot, but as I said the disc checks out.
While gaming, I have opened the Resource Monitor and found that whenever my system bogs down, programs not responding etc, my Hard Faults/sec go through the rough. 300-3k+ Every time. While my memory isn't full used yet, running around 40-60%. And when this happens, my HDD light goes berserk and my drive activity goes up. I've found that this happens not only when gaming, but when Chrome hangs, or anything else. Every last thing on this hangs and freezes. Opening the charms bar lags or wouldn't happen, searching for a program in search is very delayed. Typing takes ages to show up when it's lagging, etc.
My only thought is that it's either the Hard Drive or Memory, but both have checked out.
So...any thoughts? I'm genuinely at a loss, and can only imagine it's my hard-drive or memory.
Edit: Sorry if this is the wrong sub-forum, mods please move if it is.
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