AleksIsBored
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First off, this is my first time ever posting in a forum of any kind, so excuse me if I do something wrong and correct me so that I can meet all expectations next time.
I'm having two problems, not sure if they are related or not.
Background information:
I built my own computer in October 2012 (Under a year ago) and was very pleased with the results. I can run all the most demanding games with mods at all the highest settings with absolutely no lags.
Problem One:
After about a month, my computer started taking forever to start up. It would load everything up to the desktop screen and then I'd have to wait 10-15 minutes on the desktop screen until I could use my computer normally. But after that it works no problem. When I just built my computer it would load up 20 seconds flat.
Yes the obvious answer would be to check my startup programs, but my laptop which is a slow piece of ***t has more startup programs and I can use it after just two minutes. I tried checking MSCONFIG and I hardly have anything there. I was wondering how this could be solved.
Problem Two:
This one I only encountered twice, one of the times being today.
I was watching YouTube videos and was noticing that the video would lag after every 10 seconds or so. Suspecting a CPU or RAM problem, I looked in the task manager. Sure enough 90 percent of my CPU AND 15GB of my RAM were being used up I closed all the programs, nothing changed. I looked in the processes tab and only one program was using any of my CPU and it only said 01. Then I added up all the RAM usage, it didn't even total one GB.
My computer isn't telling me what is using up all of this CPU and RAM, I decided to try and restart my computer. When I shut it down, it was trying to shut down for 30+ minutes until I decided to hold the power button and kill it. Then it started up and worked normally.
This has happened once before. If it is a virus, then why did it only happen twice?
I am using a free version of BitDefender and it isn't finding any problems. Do you recommend a better antivirus maybe? If this happens again, is there anyway to see what it using all this memory?
I'm having two problems, not sure if they are related or not.
Background information:
I built my own computer in October 2012 (Under a year ago) and was very pleased with the results. I can run all the most demanding games with mods at all the highest settings with absolutely no lags.
Problem One:
After about a month, my computer started taking forever to start up. It would load everything up to the desktop screen and then I'd have to wait 10-15 minutes on the desktop screen until I could use my computer normally. But after that it works no problem. When I just built my computer it would load up 20 seconds flat.
Yes the obvious answer would be to check my startup programs, but my laptop which is a slow piece of ***t has more startup programs and I can use it after just two minutes. I tried checking MSCONFIG and I hardly have anything there. I was wondering how this could be solved.
Problem Two:
This one I only encountered twice, one of the times being today.
I was watching YouTube videos and was noticing that the video would lag after every 10 seconds or so. Suspecting a CPU or RAM problem, I looked in the task manager. Sure enough 90 percent of my CPU AND 15GB of my RAM were being used up I closed all the programs, nothing changed. I looked in the processes tab and only one program was using any of my CPU and it only said 01. Then I added up all the RAM usage, it didn't even total one GB.
My computer isn't telling me what is using up all of this CPU and RAM, I decided to try and restart my computer. When I shut it down, it was trying to shut down for 30+ minutes until I decided to hold the power button and kill it. Then it started up and worked normally.
This has happened once before. If it is a virus, then why did it only happen twice?
I am using a free version of BitDefender and it isn't finding any problems. Do you recommend a better antivirus maybe? If this happens again, is there anyway to see what it using all this memory?
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