Hi. PC has started to hit 100% constantly (even for browsing internet) leading to freezing up

[BobD]

Hi i’m not sure why but i did post and its dissapeared so i’ll try again (it could of froze at that moment perhaps and not posted properly).

I’ve used DDU, the pc was freezing abit in the time before the new driver was installed. I’ve installed the fresh driver. I also put in a psu a friend had spare. The pc is def running more efficiently with all the utilities i’ve run! But its still doing its freezing and lagging. A new thing is happening, i can see the mouse flickering alot sometimes, for periods of several minutes at a time. The pc is running badly (cannot swap tabs on a browser or open windows/programs i click on) when this flickering is occuring. I looked on task manager and can’t see any untoward program running using the processor up when this is happening.
Could it just be a mobo fault?
Regards and thanks.

[PeterOz]

did you try a cleanboot? Post # 14

[BobD]

Hi, did the clean boot and no joy. It was ok for 30 mins maybe and i though great. But now, the mouse is pretty much flickering none stop and its a painful business to click / open almost anything! i.e. i can move my flickering mouse pointer around but windows is almost completely unresponsive, sometimes i get a breif window to open up something in a browser and click on it.

[PeterOz]

[ol]
[li]Lunch the System Configuration utility and at the General Tab choose the Normal startup option.[/li][li]Then choose the Startup tab an Enable All Windows Services.[/li][li]Click OK and Restart your computer.[/li][/ol]

[PeterOz]

Can we get your power supply make and model + W
example: Not 700W but seasonic focus plus 700w gold - as much info as you can.
Depending on the power supply.

My next option would be to use the windows creation tool and install windows latest version.
A bit drastic - YES as you loose all data that is not backed up - so backup first
Cheaper then a new machine - yes - if it works.

[BobD]

Hi
I’ve hit another problem. My c drive is a 1tb ssd. I partitioned half of it off and created a win 10 installation usb. However when i boot up and try to install win10 on the new partition i get a message saying
“windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk has an mbr partition tablr, on EFI systems windows can only be installed to gpt disks”
Highly annoying as i have no idea if i can just change the partition to a gpt type or not. Sorry to ask for more help but is there any way to do this? Thanks.

[PeterOz]

Do you have anything on the other partition.
We can just make the disk gpt or do you need an mbr partition?

[PeterOz]

Convert MBR to GPT

NB this will wipe all data from the drive
Boot from Win 10 install usb
When you get to the startup screen (pic attached)
Press Shift + F10 key
you should get a X:> prompt
What is in blue you type in red you do
e.g Enter press enter key

Diskpart enter
list disk enter
Select disk n enter (n=the disk you wish to convert)
clean enter
convert gpt enter
exit enter

exit enter
can you continue with the install now ?
[ATTACH type=“full”]9219[/ATTACH]

*** ONLY HAVE ONE DRIVE INSTALLED WHEN INSTALLING WINDOWS***

[BobD]

Hi, i didm’t want to format my present windows as i’m not 100% i could find all the files i need to back up. So i have the partition i am using now with everything installed and a seperate formatted blank 500gb partition. Can i create a 2nd windows install on the blank partition? and keep this older one? I’d down the line copy across files i want to keep and blow this one i’m using now if the new install solves my pc problems. I know best practice is for a single install on a drive but i thought it was ok to put 2 windows installs on a disk if i wanted.

[PeterOz]

yes

[PeterOz]

Sorry I misled you with my last reply.
I just re - read
No you cannot have an mbr and a gpt partition on the same disk.
Sorry for the confusion

[Bruce]

@BobD - still need help?

[Bruce]

no activity from OP.
closed.

[BobD]

Hi

https://pchelpforum.net/t/hi-pc-has-started-to-hit-100-constantly-even-for-browsing-internet-leading-to-freezing-up.73743/page-2#post-142052

This thread has been closed but i’d like to say thanks for your help. It was informative for me to see what you guys suggested. Eventaully i did buy a new ssd. My pc works normal on it so.
Something weird though, i rebooted into my old hard drive as i had some files to locate. Strangely… my pc is now working fine on my old ssd as well! i have no idea why this would be the case. The last step i tried on the previous thread was to step #19. i’d followed all the previous instructions. My old ssd was unplugged for about 5 days before i realised i needed files off it and i’m still using it now after a number of days and everything seems to be running ok.

Could someone paste this message in to thread 73743 if thats possible? as it may help someone in the future perhaps?

Thanks again for the time taken to trouble shoot for me, very much appriciated.
Regards
BobD.

[Bruce]

feedback from OP regarding old SSD.

https://pchelpforum.net/t/thanks-my-thread-is-closed-as-i-took-to-long-replying.74274/