I've been having this issue for about a week now, it's been happening since after I set my IDM to download a queue then auto shutdown while I'm asleep. I don't have a system restore point then. But my computer has been acting strange lately. My computer used to do everything really fast.
Windows 8.1 64bit
i7 3770k
NVIDIA GTX 760
12GB Ram
Problems:
- Boot up takes 3mins or more, same with shutdown (with fast bootup option checked)
- Disk 0 (C: D:) always at 100% active(that was before I ran tweaking's windows repair, now it seems to not run at 100% at startup but then it would spikes up to 100 randomly until after hours of using it, it would always stay up at 100%, then goes down again, even now when I just have firefox open and nothing else). I also think this is the reason why my computer has been so slow since it happened.
- Sometimes when first attempt to start computer up after a long period of time of not using it, it would not load and instead, show "DRIVER_POWER_FAILURE", I had to force shutdown then attempt to start up the second time for it to load properly.
Things I did:
- Download and ran Malwarebytes, deleted some adwares, trojans.
- Ran my anti virus(Webroot) and scanned multiple times, no results.
- Checked for BIOS update, everything up to date.
- Run defrag on C:
- Run error check on C:
- Ran CCleaner to clean registries.
- Ran cmd and used DISM to restorehealth option, sfc/scannow option.
- Downloaded Driver Reviver and ran it.
- Ran Tweaking Windows Repair and all the optional options, also followed as instructed.
- Troubleshoot the Windows Update, here's what it showed:
* Issues found
Windows Update components must be repairedWindows Update components must be repaired
One or more Windows Update components are configured incorrectly. Fixed Fixed
Repair Windows Update components Completed
Here's the strange thing, even though it said it is fixed, it actually "come back", I ran this troubleshoot multiple times and it just tell me the same thing.
- I also ran WindowsUpdateDiagnostic, provided on microsoft website, and here's what it showed:
* Issues found
Some security settings are missing or have been changedSome security settings are missing or have been changed Fixed Fixed
Reset security settings Not run
Service registration is missing or corruptService registration is missing or corrupt Fixed Fixed
Reset service registration Completed
Windows Update error 0x80070057(2014-11-24-T-08_50_31P)Windows Update error 0x80070057(2014-11-24-T-08_50_31P) Fixed Fixed
Resetting Windows Update data store Completed
Problems installing recent updatesProblems installing recent updates Fixed Fixed
Repair Windows Update Completed
Again, these were showed earlier, these problems just keep coming back.
I would like to try to avoid a complete Windows reinstall as much as possible because I don't want to redownload and install all these files I have on my computers.
There are probably more but this is all I could remember as of now, I'll add more as the time goes, hopefully some computer wiz could help a gamer out because my games would stutter and drop fps really bad.
BTW: Also, the verifications in the site is also kind of annoying, I mean, just give me some normal font texts instead of these paints, I wouldn't be able to read the picture anyway if I was a bot.