So I wan to apologize if my issue doesn't make much sense, but this has been going on for a week now and I have no idea what to do now.
So my computer is pretty old. It's
Windows 7 32bit
3.2 CPu Speed
1.8 Ram
Not sure about the rest, It's not the best computer in the world but it gets the job done.
Anyway, A few days ago it shut off randomly, and I didn't think much of it, till it started doing it again and again, and then it gave me a CPU Overheating Error message upon restarting, so I just figured my Cpu was overheating, I had a friend check it out cause I'm not too smart with computers,
So he cleaned it out and apparently I had tons of dust in it, and he cleaned and applied new thermal pasted to the CPU
So I thought the problem was solved, the computer stayed on for about an hour till it turned off again.
So I did more research trying to see why my computer was still shutting off, at this point it kept getting worse, as soon as I would log in my computer it would stay on for maybe 2 minutes then shut off. No programs open or anything, and would still give me the CPU overheating message, which made no sense, as I had nothing running.
So now I was thinking it could be a virus? I go to safe mode and with networking, the computer doesn't "overheat" in safe mode immediately like it did regularly.
I don't have a temperature thing to check the temps of my computer because my computer is pretty old. So in normal mode I would open task manager as soon as I could, and I would see the CPU usage at 100% for no apparent reason. No program was open, so I figured this is why it was shutting off immediately, something was making it shoot to 100%
So while in safe mode I try to do full scan on my computer ( I use Windows Security ) & the computer "overheats" from that and shuts down.
I figured it was a startup item or something, I found a tutorial online on doing a windows 7 clean boot. & That actually worked, I went into regular mode and my cpu usage wasn't at 100% anymore and my computer didn't shut off.
So I figured the problem was solved till I tried playing a game on the computer, this game wasn't high graphic or anything, it was a simple game I could play on a computer way worse than mine, but as soon as I started this game my mouse started lagging and the cpu usage was at 100% again.
I've played this game on this exact computer before flawlessly. Never had lag or anything, so I'm really not understanding why it's doing this now.
Anyway, after about a minute, the computer shut off because it "overheated".
So at this point I'm still using the clean boot method, and I can't do much with my computer except use the Internet. If I try to open any game, even a very old game, it will overheat.
So I'm really confused right now. & I'm really not for buying a new computer, but if the cpu is the whole problem and not a virus, then I guess I would instead of trying to hunt down a cpu for an older machine.
But I'm convinced the cpu isn't entirely the problem and I might have some sort of virus thats shooting up my CPU usage for no apparent reason. If so would a clean install work.
Anyway thanks for your help, I really hope someone can help me figure out this problem.
So my computer is pretty old. It's
Windows 7 32bit
3.2 CPu Speed
1.8 Ram
Not sure about the rest, It's not the best computer in the world but it gets the job done.
Anyway, A few days ago it shut off randomly, and I didn't think much of it, till it started doing it again and again, and then it gave me a CPU Overheating Error message upon restarting, so I just figured my Cpu was overheating, I had a friend check it out cause I'm not too smart with computers,
So he cleaned it out and apparently I had tons of dust in it, and he cleaned and applied new thermal pasted to the CPU
So I thought the problem was solved, the computer stayed on for about an hour till it turned off again.
So I did more research trying to see why my computer was still shutting off, at this point it kept getting worse, as soon as I would log in my computer it would stay on for maybe 2 minutes then shut off. No programs open or anything, and would still give me the CPU overheating message, which made no sense, as I had nothing running.
So now I was thinking it could be a virus? I go to safe mode and with networking, the computer doesn't "overheat" in safe mode immediately like it did regularly.
I don't have a temperature thing to check the temps of my computer because my computer is pretty old. So in normal mode I would open task manager as soon as I could, and I would see the CPU usage at 100% for no apparent reason. No program was open, so I figured this is why it was shutting off immediately, something was making it shoot to 100%
So while in safe mode I try to do full scan on my computer ( I use Windows Security ) & the computer "overheats" from that and shuts down.
I figured it was a startup item or something, I found a tutorial online on doing a windows 7 clean boot. & That actually worked, I went into regular mode and my cpu usage wasn't at 100% anymore and my computer didn't shut off.
So I figured the problem was solved till I tried playing a game on the computer, this game wasn't high graphic or anything, it was a simple game I could play on a computer way worse than mine, but as soon as I started this game my mouse started lagging and the cpu usage was at 100% again.
I've played this game on this exact computer before flawlessly. Never had lag or anything, so I'm really not understanding why it's doing this now.
Anyway, after about a minute, the computer shut off because it "overheated".
So at this point I'm still using the clean boot method, and I can't do much with my computer except use the Internet. If I try to open any game, even a very old game, it will overheat.
So I'm really confused right now. & I'm really not for buying a new computer, but if the cpu is the whole problem and not a virus, then I guess I would instead of trying to hunt down a cpu for an older machine.
But I'm convinced the cpu isn't entirely the problem and I might have some sort of virus thats shooting up my CPU usage for no apparent reason. If so would a clean install work.
Anyway thanks for your help, I really hope someone can help me figure out this problem.