Computer acting funny after replacing cpu

Areihl

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May 27, 2017
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So awhile back I replaced my cpu, heatsink, and also upgraded my gpu. I did have a little bit of thermal past drip into the mb when replacing it, but everything has been fine up until a week ago. I would start my computer and every now and then all my icons on my desktop would be greyed out and if i tried to access anything on my sdd with my os on it, such as file manager it would spin for a minute and then say not responding. A restart would normally fix this. Well now when i play games I usually see a huge drop in FPS in a lot of games and today when I turned it on my second monitor that I usually use for youtube while playing stutters. If I am active on the second monitor it works fine. But if I switch to the fullscreen game such as Overwatch or WoW on the main monitor the youtube video will freeze. I use Corsair Link to monitor my PC and also the numbers stop moving on the second screen if I switch to the game. Its like the whole screen locks up. I originally thought maybe my sdd was going bad but now I think it's something else. Temp is fine on everything and I am not even putting that much of a load on my cpu.

specs are:
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
ASUS MSA97 R2.0
8 GB DDR3
Kingston 120GB SSD
Samsung 250GB SSD
WDC 1TB HDD
 
Solution
Get the free version of malwarebytes. Make sure it is updated. Then start in safe mode with no network. Then run it. Also if you can run your virus protection in startup mode do that. It kind of sounds like you have a virus.

It seems that some software is locking up your system at random.


This sounds like an OS or drive issue. Anything pertinent in eventlog? Have you run diagnostics on all your drives?

Edit - Wait, did you completely reload your OS when you switched your CPU and MB?
 

Areihl

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May 27, 2017
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Nothing in the diagnostics on any of my drives. I did reload the OS after I replaced everything and it worked fine for about 3 months but the past couple weeks is when it started wacking out on me.
 

urbancamper

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Get the free version of malwarebytes. Make sure it is updated. Then start in safe mode with no network. Then run it. Also if you can run your virus protection in startup mode do that. It kind of sounds like you have a virus.

It seems that some software is locking up your system at random.
 
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