Hello. My computer is acting weird after a BSOD. It takes a very long time to run some programs at startup. I notice that programs that have the UAC popup take forever to appear. For example, if I click on MSI Afterburner, I have to wait over a minute before the UAC popup appears (the program starts instantly after I press yes). I will refer to this wait time as "busy wait" for the rest of this post. To strengthen my observation, my antivirus does not have a UAC popup and it starts instantly. Also, my internet has the "busy connecting" symbol during the busy wait and I have internet access. My control panel has the same issue. It does not load any of the actions (uninstall, add or remove accounts, etc.) until the busy wait is over. I believe the busy wait is because the CPU is doing something very heavy during startup. However, task manager (which opens automatically) shows my CPU barely breaking 50% most of the time. After this busy wait, everything is normal except for occasional freezes and blue screens (every two days or so).
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Sometimes, I would freeze and my computer would restart and boot Ubuntu on my HDD. That is strange because I have my SSD is the primary boot drive. I would have to go into the BIOS and change my SSD to be the primary drive. This first time this issue happened was around three months ago. It was pretty rare and I thought nothing of it. However, the past month saw a huge spike in problems. First, I notice my computer does not wake up from sleep sometimes. My monitor is on with a black screen, my keyboard and mouse lights are off, and the hardware on my computer are running. There are also cases where the computer automatically restarts because of a problem like a BSOD but without the blue screen. During the restart, it is stuck or takes a very long time on the BIOS screen. I have to manually turn off my computer by pressing the power button. Now comes this problem above. I had the BSOD described at the top of the post maybe five days ago. I saw a glimpse of words that said hardware problem or something similar when Ubuntu was booting. Then the issue at the top of the post happened when I restarted to Windows. I thought it would go away, but it did not. Today, my SSD disconnected while my computer was running. I checked the cables and everything was good. I moved the SATA connection to another slot and my SSD was back. I remember tripping the anti surge protection on my mobo a few times a while back (before this issue). The thing is I don't know how this is possible. I have a Tripp-Lite surge protector and my PSU claims to have anti-surge protection.
Thank you for your help.
Edit: It could be my SSD (which means this is my second PNY XLR8 to fail in a year) or my ram (never had an issue before I RMA'd the SSD IIRC). I'll run a test for bad sectors and memtest tonight.
Here is some background information that might be useful. Here are the parts:
-FX 6300
-PNY XLR8 120GB
-Seagate Barracuda 1TB
-ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS AM3+ mATX
-Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
-Antec Truepower Classic 650C
-G.SKILL Ripjaw X (4GB x 2)
-MSi AMD Radeon HD 7790
-Corsair Graphite Series 230T Mid Tower
Sometimes, I would freeze and my computer would restart and boot Ubuntu on my HDD. That is strange because I have my SSD is the primary boot drive. I would have to go into the BIOS and change my SSD to be the primary drive. This first time this issue happened was around three months ago. It was pretty rare and I thought nothing of it. However, the past month saw a huge spike in problems. First, I notice my computer does not wake up from sleep sometimes. My monitor is on with a black screen, my keyboard and mouse lights are off, and the hardware on my computer are running. There are also cases where the computer automatically restarts because of a problem like a BSOD but without the blue screen. During the restart, it is stuck or takes a very long time on the BIOS screen. I have to manually turn off my computer by pressing the power button. Now comes this problem above. I had the BSOD described at the top of the post maybe five days ago. I saw a glimpse of words that said hardware problem or something similar when Ubuntu was booting. Then the issue at the top of the post happened when I restarted to Windows. I thought it would go away, but it did not. Today, my SSD disconnected while my computer was running. I checked the cables and everything was good. I moved the SATA connection to another slot and my SSD was back. I remember tripping the anti surge protection on my mobo a few times a while back (before this issue). The thing is I don't know how this is possible. I have a Tripp-Lite surge protector and my PSU claims to have anti-surge protection.
Thank you for your help.
Edit: It could be my SSD (which means this is my second PNY XLR8 to fail in a year) or my ram (never had an issue before I RMA'd the SSD IIRC). I'll run a test for bad sectors and memtest tonight.
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