For Techy people out there
Alright, immlass was helping me with this yesterday, but I figure I'll open this up to other people as well since a new 'symptom' has shown up.
My computer has been acting oddly since yesterday, mainly in the internet browser department. It is taking a super long time to load pages and it's the same regardless of using IE or Firefox. It's too the point where I start to worry that some of the tabs have lost their links because it takes a few minutes for them to pull up the urls in the address bar. There were also instances last night where none of the buttons within the webpage would work (I was on the hasbro webpage and when I hit the submit button, it looked like it was going to open the page and then nothing would happen).
Everything else in the computer is working at a good speed it seems. I haven't tried big programs like Photoshop Photoshop is working perfectly fine as well, but little things like looking through pictures and music and videos works and the external harddrive program worked well.
I restarted it yesterday the first time it was being cranky and at some point in the restart, it Bluescreened. I hard turned it off and winced at the harddrive made a weird sound that it made last time the harddrive crapped out. The computer turned on fine after that and I backed up all my files. I've restarted it later when the website buttons weren't working and it stalled at the windows screen, but when I hard turned it off and back on, it started up super quick. I turned off the computer for the night and when I turned it back on, it froze at a black screen along the way, but again after turning it off and back on, it started up at normal speed.
A new development is that when I google search and click on a link on the page, it takes me to a completely different page than the link I clicked or says the page doesn't exist. However, if I type in the url and hit enter, I get to the page perfectly fine.
I've run my ad-aware software two times so far to make sure it wasn't any of that crap affecting my computer. I'm just thoroughly confused. Any suggestions of what to do other than calling techsupport? Also, does anyone know of a good free virus scanner?
More updates: Ok, so photoshop worked fine while working on battery power, but once I plugged the computer back in, it started doing a high pitched squeal that then settled into blips, and the blips are now so quiet you can only hear them if you put your ear down on the computer. *sighs*
My computer has been acting oddly since yesterday, mainly in the internet browser department. It is taking a super long time to load pages and it's the same regardless of using IE or Firefox. It's too the point where I start to worry that some of the tabs have lost their links because it takes a few minutes for them to pull up the urls in the address bar. There were also instances last night where none of the buttons within the webpage would work (I was on the hasbro webpage and when I hit the submit button, it looked like it was going to open the page and then nothing would happen).
Everything else in the computer is working at a good speed it seems. I haven't tried big programs like Photoshop Photoshop is working perfectly fine as well, but little things like looking through pictures and music and videos works and the external harddrive program worked well.
I restarted it yesterday the first time it was being cranky and at some point in the restart, it Bluescreened. I hard turned it off and winced at the harddrive made a weird sound that it made last time the harddrive crapped out. The computer turned on fine after that and I backed up all my files. I've restarted it later when the website buttons weren't working and it stalled at the windows screen, but when I hard turned it off and back on, it started up super quick. I turned off the computer for the night and when I turned it back on, it froze at a black screen along the way, but again after turning it off and back on, it started up at normal speed.
A new development is that when I google search and click on a link on the page, it takes me to a completely different page than the link I clicked or says the page doesn't exist. However, if I type in the url and hit enter, I get to the page perfectly fine.
I've run my ad-aware software two times so far to make sure it wasn't any of that crap affecting my computer. I'm just thoroughly confused. Any suggestions of what to do other than calling techsupport? Also, does anyone know of a good free virus scanner?
More updates: Ok, so photoshop worked fine while working on battery power, but once I plugged the computer back in, it started doing a high pitched squeal that then settled into blips, and the blips are now so quiet you can only hear them if you put your ear down on the computer. *sighs*