Hello everyone!
I've run into a bit of a pickle. Recently I've experienced a lot of slowdowns with my computer; whether it's a loading screen for a game(League of Legends comes to mind), occasional freezes during gameplay(such as a skill being used in League of Legends, or a character suddenly showing up), VLC having issues properly displaying the picture(it goes sort of "inverted" or gray/white-ish). I've also had enormous problems even booting up the computer at one point - it took me over an hour of restarting to get it to work. It would boot up into Repair a few times and then just freeze.
Eventually, it managed to repair however and I formatted both my SSD and my HDD. With a clean installation of Windows 10 it seemed fine for a while but it's been progressively getting worse and worse, and now it's worse than before.
I figured maybe it could be both the SSD and the HDD that were messed up but I've had major issues(slowdowns) accessing the External HDDs, while my brother has no issues with either whatsoever. And I found no bad sectors and Windows has shown no errors related to it.
I've run some memchecks for the RAM sticks(I got two) and found no issues. I removed one of them at a time, and even tried placing them in different sockets with no success. It made no difference whatsoever. The odds of both being defect seems extremely unlikely?
I thought perhaps it's the PSU and even removed my GPU to see if it could lighten the load of the computer but I've not noticed any improvement whatsoever.
I've also reset the bios, the CPU clock speed and whatever else I could think of.
So my fear is that it's the Motherboard that is screwing with me. However, could it still be the PSU regardless of removing the GPU? The computer is 5+ years old(with the exception of the HDDs and GPU) if that matters.
I'm not entirely sure which piece to replace. Any help or guesses are appreciated!
Edit: Oh yeah, worth mentioning perhaps; when I'm starting up a match of League of Legends I've brought up the Task manager to monitor the CPU usage as well as the Memory and both seem to be almost unresponsive. CPU mostly stays at 0-0.1%(not sure if this is normal though) and the memory seems to be building up really, really slowly. (With all assets loaded it takes up at around 900-1000mb, that's when you actually get in-game.)
And I just tried starting a movie in VLC and there are some major hiccups. I have no background applications running, and no GPU(if that matters) inserted into the motherboard at the moment. The same movie had no significant hiccups earlier before the removal of the GPU.
However, instead I have to sit there and watch it snail its way to 300~400 only to display the character pictures on the loading screen. That's also around the time when the CPU starts waking up a bit (so I assume it's not a CPU issue) but the loading itself isn't necessarily going faster. It's just at a snails pace(anything between 5-15 minutes) to get ingame.
I've run into a bit of a pickle. Recently I've experienced a lot of slowdowns with my computer; whether it's a loading screen for a game(League of Legends comes to mind), occasional freezes during gameplay(such as a skill being used in League of Legends, or a character suddenly showing up), VLC having issues properly displaying the picture(it goes sort of "inverted" or gray/white-ish). I've also had enormous problems even booting up the computer at one point - it took me over an hour of restarting to get it to work. It would boot up into Repair a few times and then just freeze.
Eventually, it managed to repair however and I formatted both my SSD and my HDD. With a clean installation of Windows 10 it seemed fine for a while but it's been progressively getting worse and worse, and now it's worse than before.
I figured maybe it could be both the SSD and the HDD that were messed up but I've had major issues(slowdowns) accessing the External HDDs, while my brother has no issues with either whatsoever. And I found no bad sectors and Windows has shown no errors related to it.
I've run some memchecks for the RAM sticks(I got two) and found no issues. I removed one of them at a time, and even tried placing them in different sockets with no success. It made no difference whatsoever. The odds of both being defect seems extremely unlikely?
I thought perhaps it's the PSU and even removed my GPU to see if it could lighten the load of the computer but I've not noticed any improvement whatsoever.
I've also reset the bios, the CPU clock speed and whatever else I could think of.
So my fear is that it's the Motherboard that is screwing with me. However, could it still be the PSU regardless of removing the GPU? The computer is 5+ years old(with the exception of the HDDs and GPU) if that matters.
I'm not entirely sure which piece to replace. Any help or guesses are appreciated!
Edit: Oh yeah, worth mentioning perhaps; when I'm starting up a match of League of Legends I've brought up the Task manager to monitor the CPU usage as well as the Memory and both seem to be almost unresponsive. CPU mostly stays at 0-0.1%(not sure if this is normal though) and the memory seems to be building up really, really slowly. (With all assets loaded it takes up at around 900-1000mb, that's when you actually get in-game.)
And I just tried starting a movie in VLC and there are some major hiccups. I have no background applications running, and no GPU(if that matters) inserted into the motherboard at the moment. The same movie had no significant hiccups earlier before the removal of the GPU.
However, instead I have to sit there and watch it snail its way to 300~400 only to display the character pictures on the loading screen. That's also around the time when the CPU starts waking up a bit (so I assume it's not a CPU issue) but the loading itself isn't necessarily going faster. It's just at a snails pace(anything between 5-15 minutes) to get ingame.