Good news. My computer hasn’t crashed in awhile.
Bad news. Hwinfo told me it needed to be updated to 8.20 and I went to the website, but I must have downloaded something bad by accident and now my browser has been replaced by “thrilldotcom.” I think its a malware hijacker. How do I remove it? I’m right now using malware bytes and mcafee.
you can use malware bytes, just run a scan
or remove the thrilldotcom extension from your browser
Laugh Out Loud, I’m a mess aren’t I? I ran them and they quarantined a bunch of bad files. When I clicked on extensions, under the chrome, it didn’t find any extensions.
is it gone?
I ran two anti malware scans on malware bytes and the second scan didn’t find anything. I had to reset chrome to its original settings. I guess it’s clean, but not 100% sure.
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Holy Bloat Batman! That is the first thing that needs to go
Agreed
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so if it’s working right now with no issue far past what typically occurred previously with the GTX1060
I would delete the old nvidia drivers, do a clean install of drivers from Nvidia (preferably just drivers) and see if the problem re-occurs or is gone
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Id go a step further and uninstall them with DDU. Even uninstalling drivers can leave a few gremlins behind if one of them was corrupted.
Here is a Guide on it
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Ok everyone thank you for your patience!
I uninstalled Mcafee, installed the latest bios update 4.20, I used ddu to do a fresh install/uninstall of my driver. And now I switched to my basic Igpu, from my bios settings. So now, I guess I play the waiting game while sitting in the igpu?
No. The point of switching to using your IPGU was to see if you had the same issues when doing so so we would know if your GPU is the problem or not. So since you have done all you stated including uninstalling the Drivers using DDU go back to using your actual GTX 1060ti like normal and see if the issues are gone.
If they are ? Great we found the problem it was a corrupted driver.
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I thought you already did this and the PC was running ok. The iGPU is not powerful enough to play modern games on, its just for basic video performance like youtube, streaming and some very old games.
The reason you run the iGPU is to see if the video card is the problem
The reason to use new drivers is to see if it’s software issue with the video card or a hardware issue
Right, so I’m running the IGPU to watch youtube videos and I’ve been using IGPU for it all day. I ran ddu first because I orginally thought it was a driver issue. But, now I will switch to my GPU for gaming to test for crashes.
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ok so if you have no issues with the iGPU, your HDD is not the issue (although I would still upgrade to a SSD)
right and if no issues than it was your video card driver
So nothing yet, but on task manager, my memory is always around 50-70% even while idle. I ran windows memory diagnostic tool and it found no errors. The most memory used is windows edge, sys main, and steam webhelper.