2009-06-30, 01:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 2009-07-01, 05:00 PM by KajitiSouls.)
Just this afternoon while I was studying for summer classes, I decided I would install windows updates and java updates I've been putting off for a week or two. Then after that, my laptop started acting a bit strangely.
Whenever my laptop is on and not sleeping/hibernating or w/e, it would seem like it's busy doing something. I'm not sure what. But occasionally I would hear a specific sequence of static noise that I recognize as a CRC error (I had to deal with a corrupt character.wz before, very annoying). Every time the CRC noise comes up, some process or application I'm using would freeze for a second or two ... or four or eight. The freezes would occur regularly but randomly, and it's beginning to drive me insane.
That said, I suspect it's another fking CRC error, but it could be a malware or virus or w/e doing its thing. But if it's the former, why the fk would Microsoft phail so much in dealing with bad HD sector CRC errors -_-;;
So here's what I tried so far:
Rebooting - did nothing to fix the problem.
Windows disk cleaner - set to automatically fix errors if it can. It did report a few bad sectors in the HD, but whether it did anything to fix those, I have no idea. It wasn't very specific. Rebooted.
Spybot scan - nothing strange.
System Restore - failed, unspecified error.
System Restore to an earlier date - failed, unspecified error.
Avast! - two malwares from Daemon Tools (expected) and two files that couldn't be read from the HD. X13-40150.exe, and 2f8fce3.msp.
Reinstalled Windows - ongoing, but dam my HD is looking a LOT cleaner! It went from 85% capacity to 20% capacity xD (after copying my backups back in of course)
As for comparing MapleStory's performance before and after, MS is now having repeated sound segments (like as if it froze permanently or something), sometimes it takes forever for a single thing to cache, or any combination of strange things.
Help pl0x?
Whenever my laptop is on and not sleeping/hibernating or w/e, it would seem like it's busy doing something. I'm not sure what. But occasionally I would hear a specific sequence of static noise that I recognize as a CRC error (I had to deal with a corrupt character.wz before, very annoying). Every time the CRC noise comes up, some process or application I'm using would freeze for a second or two ... or four or eight. The freezes would occur regularly but randomly, and it's beginning to drive me insane.
That said, I suspect it's another fking CRC error, but it could be a malware or virus or w/e doing its thing. But if it's the former, why the fk would Microsoft phail so much in dealing with bad HD sector CRC errors -_-;;
So here's what I tried so far:
Rebooting - did nothing to fix the problem.
Windows disk cleaner - set to automatically fix errors if it can. It did report a few bad sectors in the HD, but whether it did anything to fix those, I have no idea. It wasn't very specific. Rebooted.
Spybot scan - nothing strange.
System Restore - failed, unspecified error.
System Restore to an earlier date - failed, unspecified error.
Avast! - two malwares from Daemon Tools (expected) and two files that couldn't be read from the HD. X13-40150.exe, and 2f8fce3.msp.
Reinstalled Windows - ongoing, but dam my HD is looking a LOT cleaner! It went from 85% capacity to 20% capacity xD (after copying my backups back in of course)
As for comparing MapleStory's performance before and after, MS is now having repeated sound segments (like as if it froze permanently or something), sometimes it takes forever for a single thing to cache, or any combination of strange things.
Help pl0x?