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Windows 7 strange stuttering issue

Raswan

Raswan

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Been experiencing some escalating problems with the old desktop, can't figure out if they are related and getting worse or individual problems piling up on one another. Feel free to take them individually or as a whole. In order of how much they are frustrating me:

1. Starting yesterday and now continously, while browsing the internet or in MS word or just on desktop, I'm getting strange "hanging" events. Right now, as I type, every ten or so seconds the cursor will freeze and then 3 or 4 seconds later everything catches up. This happens while trying to click on links, scroll up and down the page, everything.

2. When I restart from the start menu my computer hangs at the "Shutting down" screen. Have to hit the physical restart button to get it to go, click "Start windows normally" and continue on. Additionally, and I list it here only because it may be related to this issue, one time today i got a BSOD that said something about a "Driver failure issue." Couldn't capture a pic quickly enough.

3. Internet drops between 1 and 10 times a day. I'm using a Rosewill wirleless USB adaptor to get wifi from my landlord, who lives above me. Restarting always fixes this problem.

4. My external hdd, the fantom, while appearing in explorer, is no longer recognized by crashplan. No idea what's going on here.

All of these things together suggests to me a mobo issue. Specs are in my sig, only difference is I'm running a Samsung 830 256GB SSD as my os drive.

Thanks for any help.
 
A lot of your issues suggest either a driver problem, or background app problem. Can you think of anything you have installed around the time these issues started?

If you are losing your internet and a restart fixes it, I think there is something wrong with your wifi card. Belkins are notorious for doing this. Does the card get really hot? Are there any drivers available that are later than the ones you are using now?
 
ketchup79 said:
A lot of your issues suggest either a driver problem, or background app problem. Can you think of anything you have installed around the time these issues started?

If you are losing your internet and a restart fixes it, I think there is something wrong with your wifi card. Belkins are notorious for doing this. Does the card get really hot? Are there any drivers available that are later than the ones you are using now?
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I can't think of anything, no. It's a rosewill external wifi adapter. The unit doesn't really get warm. Drivers are from 1/1/13, updating to the 5/16/13 ones now.
 
Wow, you responded before I asked the questions, nice. Guess the forum issues haven't been straightened out yet. Let us know how it goes with the updated drivers.
 
ketchup79 said:
Wow, you responded before I asked the questions, nice. Guess the forum issues haven't been straightened out yet. Let us know how it goes with the updated drivers.
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I guest is internet is fine Ketchup.he answer you before you told him.lol.But I Agree with you.
 
ketchup79 said:
Wow, you responded before I asked the questions, nice. Guess the forum issues haven't been straightened out yet. Let us know how it goes with the updated drivers.
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Ha. Updated drivers may or may not have fixed it. I'll know in a day--no drops = fixed.

Stuttering problem is gone now. Nothing shut down that was running before, so I have no idea what's going on.

With respect to the soft reboot issues--hanging on the "shutting down" screen. This is something that can also be attributed to an application or driver? Any way to home in on the problem?
 
Raswan said:
With respect to the soft reboot issues--hanging on the "shutting down" screen. This is something that can also be attributed to an application or driver? Any way to home in on the problem?
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If the problem occurs on every shutdown, probably the first thing I would try would be to boot and shut down in safe mode. The result should narrow down where we need to look.
 
Install Startup CPL. It will install into the Control panel and it will be named Startup. Go in there and look for something that is starting up that shouldn't be, or you can disable one item at a time until the stutters stop. http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

EDIT- I see you have fixed the stutters with the WIFI card driver update. Install Startup CPL anyway and look for something that shouldn't be there.
 
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