CPU issue or sofware malfunction?

[Gunthr]

hey Wes, how do you know your computer is overheating?  Do you measure temps?

maybe you have hijack trojan.

[Wes14]

i can take a guess thats its overheating when the CPU just drops to just above idle. and i run Norton Anti-Virus 2007 every weekend so i dont see how

[38ruk]

Do you have a thermal monitoring program that came with the pc? If not look for one (speedfan and everest come to mind)  that will tell you what your cpu temps are or go into the bios and look at the hardware monitor ,you should be able to see temps for the cpu and chipset.

[Wes14]

i do know that my pc will shut down if it gets to critical tempature levels

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Originally posted by Wes14
i can take a guess thats its overheating when the CPU just drops to just above idle. and i run Norton Anti-Virus 2007 every weekend so i dont see how

Heh Symantec products are known backdoors for viruses these days. Get a solution that actually works.

[Wes14]

Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
Heh Symantec products are known backdoors for viruses these days. Get a solution that actually works.

then what?

[republic]

You'll find many people hate Norton and McAfee...both for good reasons, and silly reasons.  They do what they claim to do...albeit in such a way that uses way too much of your systems resources.  They are not bad programs, just...too much.

For the home user, I'd recommend Grisoft AVG Free edition.  (http://free.grisoft.com)

It's a no frills antivirus, that stops a good portion of evil doers and it's the best bang for the buck.    No bucks even!

I'd also get Spybot (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html) to be rid of the evil background adware etc.  Good, and also free.

[Wes14]

yea.. last time i downloaded a free virus scanner (on my old 98) it gave me a freakin virus that diabled the antivirus and eventually lead to the crash of that pc:furious

soo yea..i rely dont wanna download stuff:noid

[republic]

Grisoft is a legitimate antivirus, I've used it and spybot for years on customer's PC's.  Both of those applications have ran in my networks when funding was tight, and gave me few, if any, problems....but I understand not trusting something free.

The best antivirus I've used is Nod32. (http://www.eset.com/)  I've never paid for anything to remove adware/spyware...so can't help you there.

[Wes14]

and the weird thing is that even with my pc's problem i dont see any problems leaving norton on with AH running (other then a tad bit higher ping)

[republic]

I, personally, have never had any problems with Norton antivirus alone.  It's usually when a customer has the full Norton suite when i see problems.  McAfee has caused me severe personal trauma through the years...

Your problem is tough to diagnose because you said "(it doesnt seem to do this if AH is running)".  

If it were heat or power supply problems it would definitely crash during AH.  Also any background task would tend to 'upset' the computer while playing AH.  It's not going into standby or something right?  Your actually using the computer and then the screen goes black?

[Wes14]

yea the screen went black about 2 times now.pc power light still be running but acting like the cpu shut down on me or windows did:confused:

and both times it happened the cpu was at 100%

[Wes14]

to be more precise the cpu went like this

20%,30%,0%,100%,-black screen-

[republic]

Try using the task monitor to see which program is spiking to 100%

[Wes14]

right now IEXPLORE.EXE (internet explorer) is spiking in the 80s and the Hard drive/Cpu monitor(i just enabled it) occasonally kick it up to 100%,but no signs of black screen yet