Hello, recently I have been having issues with a game that I play, Rocket League, where my CPU usage would shoot up to 100% whenever playing causing lag and what not. Now the problem has gotten much more serious... It started when my PC crashed entirely, whole thing froze and wouldn't turn off regularly. So I held the power button for a few seconds and it finally shut off. When trying to reboot it showed the usual picture advertising my motherboard instead of the usual Windows start up but this time it got stuck on that start screen. I waited around 7 minutes before it finally booted. (Usual Boot time is less than 10 seconds) Now, a day later, random programs are crashing, some processes take forever to load, and in general my computer is not functioning. As i am writing this message my taskbar is gone because I tried to open the "this PC" folder and that crashed. So now my taskbar has dissappeared and the only thing working is Google Chrome and Teamspeak 3. I need help diagnosing the issue, and solving it. Windows 8.1 by the way. Update: When I open my this PC folder now, my hard drive no longer displays the space it has left on it like my SSD does. This is what it looks like - https://gyazo.com/7b55e09d4265ac4cc518d91a94960134 . When I click on the hard drive to open it up, the folder crashes.
Started with high CPU usage... now Everything keeps crashing on my PC.
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lucas_7_94
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weberdarren97
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First you're going to want to check your CPU temperatures while it's at a high load. Then if that checks out to be less than 65 Celsius you'll want to open Command Prompt as an admin and type in "sfc /scannow" without the quotation marks. Be aware that that command can take up to an hour on slower hard drives.
A tool to check your CPU temperature can be found here http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
A tool to check your CPU temperature can be found here http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
weberdarren97
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Since you have Windows 8.1, you could just ditch it and go straight to Windows 10. As long as you choose to keep nothing, no errors should carry over. And you can transfer your files manually later by digging through the windows.old folder created during the upgrade process. Windows 10 is a free upgrade and will activate off of the key stored in Windows 8.1.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
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weberdarren97
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Instead of unplugging it, open command prompt as an admin and type in "chkdsk D: /r" without quotation marks to repair the disk.
weberdarren97
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Because it would try to read from it and load its partitions into memory so that Windows Explorer can properly use it when it's needed.
weberdarren97
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Unplug the drive that is D:\ and try starting up without it for now, we'll work from there.
weberdarren97
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If it doesn't boot then that's a sign that there's deeper issues here... I might have to refer you to another guy if it doesn't boot.
weberdarren97
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It's not a good idea to touch the internals while it's running. If there's any shorts, you could get shocked.
weberdarren97
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If you still have the Windows 8.1 install disk, try method 2 here http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-update/how-to-repair-corrupt-system-files-from-a/329649e1-112f-44b9-bfd4-d1be00a77fc1?auth=1
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