Anthony N
Well-known member
Hey there gang, I have something extremely puzzling to me and I'd some other points of view.
I'm working with a friend's computer and he complains of processes failing to start or abruptly end.
I'm seeing it with my own two eyes now, I removed a stick of ram that was affecting boot and some other performance issues. That indicated that stick was failing.
BIOS reports everything is being supplied with the correct voltages from the power supply so I'm lost as to was is causing these failures and delays.
His primary hard drive makes an eerie whine. But once given read / write instructions it stops with that noise.
My Conclusions are, He is infected with a virus and the AV I installed can't see it. Registry is corrupt. Hardware is slowly crumbing into an inoperable state.
Notes:
He plays Steam games and on more than one occasion he has to use Steam's file repairer.
His on-board NIC has a lot of connection delays but no lost packets.
This is a windows 8 system. (He refuses to patch to 8.1)
Thank you as always, Anthony. :)
I'm working with a friend's computer and he complains of processes failing to start or abruptly end.
I'm seeing it with my own two eyes now, I removed a stick of ram that was affecting boot and some other performance issues. That indicated that stick was failing.
BIOS reports everything is being supplied with the correct voltages from the power supply so I'm lost as to was is causing these failures and delays.
His primary hard drive makes an eerie whine. But once given read / write instructions it stops with that noise.
My Conclusions are, He is infected with a virus and the AV I installed can't see it. Registry is corrupt. Hardware is slowly crumbing into an inoperable state.
Notes:
He plays Steam games and on more than one occasion he has to use Steam's file repairer.
His on-board NIC has a lot of connection delays but no lost packets.
This is a windows 8 system. (He refuses to patch to 8.1)
Thank you as always, Anthony. :)