Sorry for not being able to shorten this, I don't know how. Please understand and help me.
My PC:
PSU - Sirtec High Power Element BRONZE 500W
Motherboard - GA-G41M-Combo (rev. 2.0)
CPU - Core 2 Duo E 8400
RAM - 8GB DDR3 Corsair
GPU - (second hand) ASUS GeForce GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II Top
HDD - Seagate Baracuda 1TB
Short history on my graphics card, I had an old one, a GTS 250 that went kaboom so I bought a replacemenet Second Hand. The GTX 560 Ti was a steal, and I bought it from someone who agreed to all my tests and conditions, even have a copy of his ID. Had issues with it's driver, reverted to a known stable driver. I knew my PSU couldn't really handle it so I underclocked it to factory and undervolted it to 0.950V. With a few hours in the donut of death and Unigine Heaven I can safely say it is stable.
Now for the actual reason why I am here. I have been having weird freezes, even before tinkering with my GPU. I tested CAPSLOCK, it was frozen. I noticed that this happeened when I had a few things open and tried to also open Malwarebytes. I also have an anti-virus (Avira) so I figured that they had problems with one another so I made exceptions for each other in both programs. Freezes dropped a little after that. Fast forward to today where my computer simply refuses to boot properly, I boot but can't click anything other than open desktop folders, but can't run any programs. It was getting annoying at this point so I rebooted into safe mode and got rid of Malwarebytes completely. Eureka, it boots. Everything works well until I want to install a game one hour ago. System slows to a crawl but not in the normal way but takes years to respond. Task Manager - not responding, writing a word in search, first two letters written instantly, rest of the word, after 15 seconds, open a new tab, write an address and press enter - instant, but it doesn't show any loading, it just loads it after a minute. While everything is slow as hell I can still watch and pause the video I loaded on youtube, no issues. To top it all off I can't even install the damn thing, it always gets stuck, installing anything does that. I restart and things seem to have come back to normal, but I'm not trying my luck anymore.
Problem with this whole ordeal is - I just don't know what to test anymore, I tested 2 weeks ago (my issues started more than a month ago) 5 hour Furmark and 2 hour Unigine Heaven on my GPU, nothing. Prime 95 SmallFFT 5 hour and Blend 4 hour on my CPU, nothing, MemTest 86+ for 6+ hours on my RAM (did another run 4 months ago when my previous graphics card was behaving weirdly for 11 hours) nothing, HD Tune Pro - no errors, and error scan - nothing, Speedfan shows no smart errors either. Temperatures look good. I just don't know what to do next ? I can't even afford to get my PC diagnosed by a specialist if I am to buy a new component for it since I couldn't afford both. What do I do ?
My PC:
PSU - Sirtec High Power Element BRONZE 500W
Motherboard - GA-G41M-Combo (rev. 2.0)
CPU - Core 2 Duo E 8400
RAM - 8GB DDR3 Corsair
GPU - (second hand) ASUS GeForce GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II Top
HDD - Seagate Baracuda 1TB
Short history on my graphics card, I had an old one, a GTS 250 that went kaboom so I bought a replacemenet Second Hand. The GTX 560 Ti was a steal, and I bought it from someone who agreed to all my tests and conditions, even have a copy of his ID. Had issues with it's driver, reverted to a known stable driver. I knew my PSU couldn't really handle it so I underclocked it to factory and undervolted it to 0.950V. With a few hours in the donut of death and Unigine Heaven I can safely say it is stable.
Now for the actual reason why I am here. I have been having weird freezes, even before tinkering with my GPU. I tested CAPSLOCK, it was frozen. I noticed that this happeened when I had a few things open and tried to also open Malwarebytes. I also have an anti-virus (Avira) so I figured that they had problems with one another so I made exceptions for each other in both programs. Freezes dropped a little after that. Fast forward to today where my computer simply refuses to boot properly, I boot but can't click anything other than open desktop folders, but can't run any programs. It was getting annoying at this point so I rebooted into safe mode and got rid of Malwarebytes completely. Eureka, it boots. Everything works well until I want to install a game one hour ago. System slows to a crawl but not in the normal way but takes years to respond. Task Manager - not responding, writing a word in search, first two letters written instantly, rest of the word, after 15 seconds, open a new tab, write an address and press enter - instant, but it doesn't show any loading, it just loads it after a minute. While everything is slow as hell I can still watch and pause the video I loaded on youtube, no issues. To top it all off I can't even install the damn thing, it always gets stuck, installing anything does that. I restart and things seem to have come back to normal, but I'm not trying my luck anymore.
Problem with this whole ordeal is - I just don't know what to test anymore, I tested 2 weeks ago (my issues started more than a month ago) 5 hour Furmark and 2 hour Unigine Heaven on my GPU, nothing. Prime 95 SmallFFT 5 hour and Blend 4 hour on my CPU, nothing, MemTest 86+ for 6+ hours on my RAM (did another run 4 months ago when my previous graphics card was behaving weirdly for 11 hours) nothing, HD Tune Pro - no errors, and error scan - nothing, Speedfan shows no smart errors either. Temperatures look good. I just don't know what to do next ? I can't even afford to get my PC diagnosed by a specialist if I am to buy a new component for it since I couldn't afford both. What do I do ?
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