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    Windows is starting to get slow and alot more problems

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Saisei, Jul 23, 2009.

  1. Saisei

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    Recently my desktop has started to flash excluding the icons, open programs are flashing and when i use a browser the taskbar doesnt show it there.Programs randomly freeze including explorer.exe, boot time has greatly from when i first installed win7.I have these security programs installed:
    -Avast
    -Comodo firewall
    -spybot

    Also sometimes my start menu only shows half and not the power button and everything else thats at the bottom.I did a full scan with avast and found nothing, there were multiple copies of win32:trojan{other} but i had deleted them but i think it infected files in system32 folder.
     
    Saisei, Jul 23, 2009
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    Your screen is flashing? Are you sure you're GPU isn't overheating or dying for that matter?
     
    Theros123, Jul 23, 2009
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  3. Saisei

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    I unistall the vid driver then used the vga and it was still happening.
     
    Saisei, Jul 23, 2009
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    Yeah, that sort of sounds like hardware failure. Install Vista/XP and see if it's still happening. Could just be damage caused by the virus, though.
     
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  5. Saisei

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    Would a new hard drive fix anything?I was planning on gettong a new one anyway.
     
    Saisei, Jul 23, 2009
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    It shouldn't, unless your current HD is failing. Install a new version of Windows/reinstall Win 7 or run a hardware test to see if the problem is software or hardware related.
     
    Budding, Jul 23, 2009
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  7. Saisei

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    How do i run a hardware test?
     
    Saisei, Jul 23, 2009
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    You might be dealing with a failing GPU. A little more than a year ago Nvidia released the information that the G84 and G86 graphic chips were part of a defective GPU line due to a soldering issue. The Geforce 8400M GS in your laptop is G86 architecture so you might be affected by this issue.
     
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  9. Saisei

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    Why is the gpu just starting this now? Should I but a replacement and do it myself? My warranty is finished.
     
    Saisei, Jul 23, 2009
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    Try disabling Comodo and Spybot and try again. A disk defrag might help.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Jul 23, 2009
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    By all means I'm not certain if your issue is GPU failure, but the signs are pointing that way. Now to the question of why this is happening "now", this is simply because you either have a defective product that doesn’t work from the beginning or you have a defective hardware that fails on you over a period of time, because of a fault in this case being the soldering issue.

    If this is a failing GPU then you have 2 options.
    Buy a replacement card such as this:
    http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-Vostro-150...p?hash=item518ad4ecaa&_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

    Or pop the GPU out and give the old bake in the oven trick a shot:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=385857
     
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  12. Saisei

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    Games run fine though so it cant be the gpu its explore.exe that's messed up.I also used program that's designed for vista and that's when the problem started because ive done 2 boot up scans and 3 scans while in the os with avast.
     
    Saisei, Jul 23, 2009
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    it depends on what he really means with screen flashing.

    btw, besides avast, you don't need the other two softwares. they are useless paranoya-placebos.
     
    davepermen, Jul 24, 2009
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  14. Saisei

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    My screen's flashing is similar to when you do a right click refresh on the desktop.
     
    Saisei, Jul 24, 2009
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    that's what i thought. so it's nothing hw or graphics or gpu related.
     
    davepermen, Jul 24, 2009
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    I can play games and theres no , but flashing even the taskbar is doing something like refresh.
     
    Saisei, Jul 24, 2009
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    I tried bf2142 & nfs and theres no flashing at all, but when in the desktop the taskbar is also refreshing.Opera is the only Some programs like opera arent visible in the takbar at all which cant be gpu related.
     
    Saisei, Jul 24, 2009
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