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Originally Posted by dpastern
happy to offer help.
PS I've seen antivirus do similar things to what you're seeing. My last PC had similar issues to you, and it had me stumped. it would work, and then reboot on its own and refuse to boot the windows o/s. Wouldn't repair it either (said it couldn't, no matter what I tried). No safe mode. nada. No rhyme or reason to it - sometimes after a day or 2, sometimes after 2 weeks. I was using grub as the main bootloader, which handed off to the windows bootloader. i'd get the windows loading screen and it'd just hang there. Bloody weird.
3 months of trouble shooting and I gave up and gave the PC to my best mate for him to play with. Know what it was? Bloody well AV...I had a clean install of Windows 7 (8 had only just been released at that time), no 3rd party apps, no 3rd party drivers, full windows updates (also tested it without any windows updates, same problem). The only thing I did install was my backup data (onto an actual separate drive, so not o/s drive) and AV. I re-tested it with no backup data (after doing a low level format of the drive and fdisk'ing the mbr to be safe and paranoid) and still issues. I didn't even suspect the AV. I'd been using KAV for a good number of years without a single issue and there weren't any google posts on it (I did google it, so when nothing came back, I though nothing further of it).
What did my mate do when he got it? Uninstalled KAV, rebooted it and then tested it for 3 months. Not a single issue. He didn't tell me what he died for 3 months, just that he was still "testing" it. Then he told me and I was like 'WTH!, seriously!!!". I let him use the PC for the next 18 months lol as it was faster than his pretty decent PC and I didn't urgently need to use it as I had my MBP and an older Q6600 based PC if I really needed a PC. At that time, i had basically moved all my gaming to the PS3/XBOX, so didn't need a PC for gaming, and my MBP could run PS elements 12 which did most of what I wanted, so the PC wasn't a high priority. Of course, i got the PC back eventually. Mate needed a PSU to test his VR PC, I lent him the PSU, got it back a week later. Hadn't even reinstalled it back into the PC in question, had the PSU in its box on the floor in my room and woke up one morning at 8am to an inch of water throughout my room (heavy storm, didn't wake me up, water came down the drive, into the garage and then into my room) and has probably ruined the PSU (box was water damaged). Too heartbroken to open it and test . Lucky, I had the PC in my late dad's old vintage car up and away from water. Unluckily, mice had taken to living in the car and probably have made a nice home inside the PC and screwed the mainboard with mice pee and poo and chewed cables with my luck. Again, with my luck, I'm not game to open it lol. I'll eventually do it one day, and probably cry. Brand new PC, 2k parts, never really used, probably stuffed. *sigh*.
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That is a full on story, mate mine is very insignificant by comparison.
