I've been running this rig since January as a completely fresh build, and until yesterday with no problems whatsoever.
At seemingly random times my computer will bog down and programs will stop responding one by one, and I will eventually encounter a error window in the top left of the screen stating "The application is not responding. The program may respond again if you wait." It is not the error you encounter when an individual program or process stops responding, however it's similar. It's a small window with limited information, it does not proclaim which program/process encountered the issue. The window is simply titled "Microsoft Windows" and has no further information aside from the text I've previously mentioned.
I would provide a screenshot of the error if I could however once receiving it I cannot do much else. When I try to open another program via the shortcut icon it says the program no longer exists, and asks if I would like to have the shortcut removed. When attempting Ctrl+Alt+Del I receive another error telling me it's not available. If I click on the start button it comes up completely blank, and then shortly after the computer will restart with no blue screen etc.
I encountered this issue several times last night and during extremely varying activities. Once while I was playing BF3, A few times when watching something on Netflix, and many times when the computer was just idling doing nothing.
I first decided to run some malware scans and everything came up clean. I then ran some stability tests for both the RAM and CPU using Linx. My temperatures were all well in the green. I noticed when running just a CPU stress test my cursor would lag and jump around considerably (15 second delayed movement at times). At this point I undid all my overclocks and tried again, still the same issues running it completely stock.
Eventually I decided on doing a reformat, assuming it was Windows messing with me. Not 5 minutes into the fresh install I encountered the same issues again. This time I decided to run Memtest, which gave me no errors.
Does anyone have any ideas? This is getting frustrating.
It's obviously not a software issue, RAM is ruled out, and the CPU is now running stock so I assume that's not the issue.
If I were to guess I would say it's probably a chipset issue, though I have no idea how to diagnose that. I don't have any spare hardware I can swap out either.
At seemingly random times my computer will bog down and programs will stop responding one by one, and I will eventually encounter a error window in the top left of the screen stating "The application is not responding. The program may respond again if you wait." It is not the error you encounter when an individual program or process stops responding, however it's similar. It's a small window with limited information, it does not proclaim which program/process encountered the issue. The window is simply titled "Microsoft Windows" and has no further information aside from the text I've previously mentioned.
I would provide a screenshot of the error if I could however once receiving it I cannot do much else. When I try to open another program via the shortcut icon it says the program no longer exists, and asks if I would like to have the shortcut removed. When attempting Ctrl+Alt+Del I receive another error telling me it's not available. If I click on the start button it comes up completely blank, and then shortly after the computer will restart with no blue screen etc.
I encountered this issue several times last night and during extremely varying activities. Once while I was playing BF3, A few times when watching something on Netflix, and many times when the computer was just idling doing nothing.
I first decided to run some malware scans and everything came up clean. I then ran some stability tests for both the RAM and CPU using Linx. My temperatures were all well in the green. I noticed when running just a CPU stress test my cursor would lag and jump around considerably (15 second delayed movement at times). At this point I undid all my overclocks and tried again, still the same issues running it completely stock.
Eventually I decided on doing a reformat, assuming it was Windows messing with me. Not 5 minutes into the fresh install I encountered the same issues again. This time I decided to run Memtest, which gave me no errors.
Does anyone have any ideas? This is getting frustrating.
It's obviously not a software issue, RAM is ruled out, and the CPU is now running stock so I assume that's not the issue.
If I were to guess I would say it's probably a chipset issue, though I have no idea how to diagnose that. I don't have any spare hardware I can swap out either.
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