Comp problems.

[Protoss119]

Just a few minutes ago, very wierd events forced me to reboot my comp. TWICE.

The first was when I was in WorldEdit working on a map. All of a sudden, the monitor screwed up with pink and yellow and purple everywhere and then I got hit with a dark-blue screen of death which, besides being mixed with purple, said something about dumping "physical memory" before it rebooted. I'm not a hardware expert, so sue me.

The second was shortly after the first reboot. I ran Warcraft III and was about to play a custom map when the monitor blacked out on me and it beeped a couple times when I tried to reboot it. I was forced to shut it down, then start it up again and here I am.

I suspect malicious software to be involved, so I'm running AVG Virus Scan. Personally, I favor McAfee over AVG, but I had no choice in the matter when the new comp was made, so...

[Protoss119]

AVG found nothing. Maybe if I scan my Frozen Throne disk, it'll find something. Otherwise, I have my animated desktop to blame.

EDIT: And it is. I've already changed it; hopefully this'll put an end to the odd monitor.

[Protoss119]

Wasn't the desktop - in fact, it was due to overheat. It happened again. Per Dad's advice, I shut it down and waited for a half-hour before starting it up again. We'll see what happens next.

[Almuric]

My first suggestion was going to be heat, second was OS problems. This didnt sound like a virus at all.

[Protoss119]

It wasn't. <_< Apparently, it only occurs when WCIII is running. Odd.

[Protoss119]

It's not Heat. I don't know what it is. It's definitely not the power supply, or it would have shut down on me, but it keeps happening, and it's getting much more frequent. Suggestions?

[Protoss119]

My dad took a look at it and it turns out it IS a virus. Kind of ironic, don't you think?

Anyway, someone's using up 1/3 of my memory and 1/2 of my processing power. No wonder NWN2's laggy. He'll take steps to rectify the situation today.

[Almuric]

ouch! somebody should have kept his virus protection up to date.

[Protoss119]

AVG updates automatically. AVG sucks IMO though, so meh.

[Protoss119]

I did have a virus, but that wasn't the cause of the problem. It stopped crashing for some 3-6 days. It turns out my video card burnt out and so I had to get it replaced by a not-as-good-as-my-old-one one. Hey, whatever works.

However, one may be concerned that without the old video card, I won't be able to play NWN2. I don't have the processer speed to play it well, though, so it would make no difference.