Need help on a weird issue
I built my new desktop 3 days ago, installed windows 8.1. Everything worked flawlessly until last hour.
I was watching an 1080p video and suddenly everything became supper laggy. so I stopped the video and checked task manager, it indicated a 99% memory usage and 100% primary disk usage. I assume the disk usage is due to page files. but it made no sense because not a single process was using more then 100MB, and they definitely weren't adding up to 8 GB. So I decided to shutdown my PC, but it just wouldn't. Monitor showed the "shutting down" screen and then automatically came back to welcome screen. I am very certain I did not click restart. I tried several time before force shutdown(hold power button for 5 sec). Anyone have clue on this issue? One thing I suspect is I might fried my ram stick while I build my PC, I clearly remember seeing and heard a zap the first time I press power button for test run. But running windows memory diagnostics tool shows no error, and there was no error recorded in event viewer. Is this a system issue or hardware issue? need help, thanks.
G.SKILL Trident X Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 2400MHz CL10 Dual Channel Kit
on GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-3 board with I7-4790K.
-----Update-----
By observing resource monitor for 5 mins I confirmed that my memory consumption increases constantly at a rate of 3-4 MB per second until use up all memory.
I built my new desktop 3 days ago, installed windows 8.1. Everything worked flawlessly until last hour.
I was watching an 1080p video and suddenly everything became supper laggy. so I stopped the video and checked task manager, it indicated a 99% memory usage and 100% primary disk usage. I assume the disk usage is due to page files. but it made no sense because not a single process was using more then 100MB, and they definitely weren't adding up to 8 GB. So I decided to shutdown my PC, but it just wouldn't. Monitor showed the "shutting down" screen and then automatically came back to welcome screen. I am very certain I did not click restart. I tried several time before force shutdown(hold power button for 5 sec). Anyone have clue on this issue? One thing I suspect is I might fried my ram stick while I build my PC, I clearly remember seeing and heard a zap the first time I press power button for test run. But running windows memory diagnostics tool shows no error, and there was no error recorded in event viewer. Is this a system issue or hardware issue? need help, thanks.
G.SKILL Trident X Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 2400MHz CL10 Dual Channel Kit
on GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-3 board with I7-4790K.
-----Update-----
By observing resource monitor for 5 mins I confirmed that my memory consumption increases constantly at a rate of 3-4 MB per second until use up all memory.