Sager 2090 crashes

Today, my 2090 crashed 3 times where I'll be using very non-intensive programs such as Firefox, Pidgin, and Ventrilo, and then the whole computer seems to lag up. I can still move my mouse, but it takes a while to close everything. When I click a window's top bar to drag it around the mouse seems to have a mind of its own moving around randomly. I cannot reset through the start menu and have to do ctrl alt dl to get to the reset menu.

I'm running Vista 64bit and only have had the computer for about 2 weeks. What could possibly be the problem? Would installing 32bit instead help?

 

Is there high CPU usage (check the task manager), or does it just lag, apparently for no reason? If it is the latter, you might want to check your firewall, antivirus, etc... software to see if they are interfering with file IO.

 

When I go into task manager, there is high CPU usage, I'm assuming because the whole computer is lagging. How would I check if those things are interfering?

 

You might check the processes to identify the culprit.

 

It crashed again. When I click things like the arrow in the bottom right corner, it doesn't open but when I highlight over the arrow it has that small pop up that says "Show hidden icons" and when I click the arrow that little pop up seems to move left and right on its own. Same with when I click and try to drag around some windows..the windows would start moving over to the left on its own and seem to "vibrate" left to right.

When I check task manager, even task manager seems to be very laggy and the tabs (processes, performance, etc) seem to not work. My cpu usage goes up to 60-80%, but when I check processes, the only things running the cpu that high are like taskbar which runs up to 20%. Before, the problem occurred in Firefox, but I tried the program Tunexp to make my startup time faster and it started to lag my computer after it finished, but I closed it and saw nothing in the taskbar. I have avast running and it is a fairly new computer so I don't think I have a virus.

Could this be 64bit related at all? I've never heard of anyone else with such problems

 

check procoess in task manager like syngensmyth said. Look for any application using high resource.

 

I have never run 64 being that I do not like driver issues. It sounds like a video driver issue but only guessing. It is suspicious that it happened after running Tunexp (what ever that is). Maybe it stopped something from loading correctly while trying to speed up your bootup. You don't have nTune or something installed????? I would stay away from nTune.

If you can't get it, I would uninstall the video drivers and reinstall them ... maybe clean them out with some driver cleaner if simple reinstall does not work.

 

My try running spybot or similar to rule out malware slowing you down.

 

I will run spybot later tonight. It's not specifically a TuneXP problem because I've had the exact same kind of laggyness after using Firefox. The only high using resources during that time are dwm.exe, firefox.exe, and explorer.exe. Everything else is using very little memory.

EDIT: Just ran spybot, got rid of some spyware, but nothing more than some typical ad stuff. My laptop was lagging tremendously while using spybot. I am going to format and install 32bit Vista and start fresh and see what happens then.