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Multiple System Failure in Win7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
hey. i joined this forum because i'm at a loss for what to do. last week, i left my computer running while i went out for a little bit, and when i came back 45 minutes later i found it had crashed in the meantime. that's when the troubles started, and it's just been getting worse in the meantime. a full list of problems includes:
memory leaks
CPU spikes
intermittent freezing
Windows Explorer crashing semi-frequently (then not coming back up, forcing me to reboot)
Ctrl+Alt+Del failing to work after WE crashes
not being able to use more than one program in one logon session (lest WE crash)
no programs being able to boot if i wait too long after startup
trouble shutting down/restarting/hibernating (only way to shut down now is to press+hold the power button)
programs failing to boot when other programs (most notably IE) are running
open windows flickering randomly
random crashes
lagging, SVCHost instances that don't control anything and hog memory
rainmeter growing unresponsive
on occasion there has also been random bits of music/audio playing when i don't have any sort of player (itunes, VLC, the internet) up. i checked background programs that run ads (skype, AIM, utorrent), and none had any sort of video playing.
SVCHost has been the main culprit behind the CPU spikes and Memory leaks, sometimes taking up over 600,000kb at a time and 96% processor useage.
just for the record, i've run 2 disk checks, a virus scan (caught and deleted 1 trojan, something called Trojan Win32.Generic. 1313AF25, in the system32\drivers folder under the name ousb2hub.sys), and a registry cleaning (using CC Cleaner, all it got was some old .dlls left after i uninstalled some programs). i can't get defrag to work for some reason (or at least i couldn't every time i tried). booting into safe mode used to be alright, but i'm writing this from safe mode with networking as we speak and the problems are starting to effect here, too.
i use Rising Antivirus and Internet Explorer (Opera is my main browser but it's so clogged with tabs i've yet to clean that IE is easier). CPU is a pair of Intel Core2 Duos at 2GHz. 4gb of RAM installed says 3 is available). 1TB hard drive. i haven't installed any new programs in the past week, though i did download a program called Trillian (haven't installed, the .exe is just sitting on my desktop).
the computer was custom-built so any hope of a warrenty is out the window. it's getting to the point where i'm ready to give up, shift all my stuff to my external drive, and reinstall Windows. i really hope it doesn't come to that.
will (attempt to) post screencaps upon request. it hasn't crashed in a few days so i don't have a log file yet, sorry.