About a month ago I started to experience some pretty troubling issues with my PC... it happened suddenly when I installed/began playing Call of Duty 4. My PC would slow down to a crawl--the frame-rates would dip to about 5fps, and I could barely move my mouse around on the screen. After this I tried to restart my PC to see if that would remedy the issue and it did, but would return and continue AFTER I played some graphically intensive game. At times the screen would go black and then return, revealing a "caution" symbol on my taskbar (but whenever I tried to click on it it disappeared).
I did a few things...
- Ran Memtest, there were no errors found.
- Re-applied thermal paste to my CPU.
- Tried running on Integrated Graphics to test if the issue was the video card, but found that the stuttering/slowdown was still present.
When the PC begins to slow the CPU load jumps around drastically (as does the hard disk load). I checked in Task Manager and I could not see anything that had more than a 20% load, which baffled me.
I don't know the issue and I would really like some help. Any suggestions?
I did a few things...
- Ran Memtest, there were no errors found.
- Re-applied thermal paste to my CPU.
- Tried running on Integrated Graphics to test if the issue was the video card, but found that the stuttering/slowdown was still present.
When the PC begins to slow the CPU load jumps around drastically (as does the hard disk load). I checked in Task Manager and I could not see anything that had more than a 20% load, which baffled me.
I don't know the issue and I would really like some help. Any suggestions?
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