My garbage computer.

[Freeforall]

I have been recording a let's play series for a while now on Minecraft. I tried recording today, and after about 15 minutes into it, fraps crashed. I watched the video up to the point that it had crashed, and it's just blue lines all over the screen with my commentary. My stupid computer keeps opening random crap that I didn't tell it to. It's really frustrating me, I am tired of this crap. Why is this happening to my computer? It's not a virus, I had just formatted the harddrive about a week ago and scanned everything. I did update my drivers, so it's not that either. WHY?

[Jake]

Computers that open crap that you don't want them to usually have virus's. What "crap" is it actually opening?

[Scotty]

Everything you just described points to the tell-tale signs of a virus.  What are you using to scan?

[Freeforall]

It keeps opening up Task Manager and 'AMD Vision Engine Control Center'

And I am scanning with Avast.

Also, could it be my video card failing? I am getting massive lag in my games, and I can't really record anything without it crashing. It started this yesterday. I haven't done anything different since yesterday though, so I don't see what is causing it.

[Mr Pwnage]

Avast! has some great live shields and whatnot, alas I use it, but it definitely isn't the most thorough scan you could run on your computer which is supposedly already infected. I HIGHLY recommend Malwarebytes for a very thorough scanning of your computer. It's free and the best scanner I am yet to have seen. Try running a full system scan of all of your harddrives with Malwarebytes and tell us the results.

Here is a link: http://www.malwarebytes.org/

[EpicPhailure]

Also worth adding on to the recommendations for AV software:

If the site is blocked, and you're sure it's the official website, then it's probably a virus' doing.

[Jake]

You need malwarebytes, hitman, and spybot search and destroy.

[Freeforall]

The computer opening stuff isn't really my biggest concern, but when I try to record a game (minecraft) lines appear across the screen. Every time I try to record, it seems to get worse and worse. Here is a video of when it first started to do this. It has gotten MUCH worse since then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHO57W3YWC0&feature=channel_video_title

[Jake]

Have you ran a hardware diagnostic? Strange lines like that could be the result of problems with your GPU, especially when you say it's starting to get worse. Download everest or speedfan and watch the temps on your hardware.

[Freeforall]

Well I downloaded speedfan.

This is while my computer is idle:


This is while playing Minecraft:

[venuse]

wow. either a-a few sensors are bad or b-your cpu and motherboard have something wrong. c the thermal paste that is inbetween the cpu and motherboard could of gone bad or something.

not sure if it is a store bought comp or a custom, but on alot of store bought the thermal paste isnt applied right and spills out onto the mother board and can cause problems later on. other then that not sure. hopes this helps.

[Freeforall]

wow. either a-a few sensors are bad or b-your cpu and motherboard have something wrong. c the thermal paste that is inbetween the cpu and motherboard could of gone bad or something.

not sure if it is a store bought comp or a custom, but on alot of store bought the thermal paste isnt applied right and spills out onto the mother board and can cause problems later on. other then that not sure. hopes this helps.

This laptop was store bought about 2 years ago. Is it getting too hot? It used to get up to around 100 degrees, but I bought a cooling pad for it, and now it doesn't get past 96 degrees.

[ARTgames]

Now that you say its a laptop then that's a little different. some of this could be a virus. some of these could you not paying attention and pressing things on your touchpad or keyboard or both and having this open randomly. (happens more than you think)

Laptops have cooling problems since they are in a enclose space but need to get all that heat out without being too big. So sometimes they are not made well and dust gets into them and they heats them up. 96C is ALOT. Too much really. :/ Doing that over and over heating that hot and cooling when you turn it off can permanently harm your hardware over time and just keeping it that hot it not good. It can also slow down your computer because when they get that hot they start dropping there performance to keep form overheating. But this is a common thing I see in laptop that old. You need to get it dusted or looked at professionally or over times your system may become more unreliable. Things like random full system freezing, longer boot times, random screen glitches (though not always a hardware problem), unexpected full shutdown are signs of heat damage.

You could also try going to your laptop manufactures website and try and download latest video drivers. That could help.

[sly 3 4 me]

The laptop should not be getting that hot. Even on my other laptop while encoding videos it was only having upwards of 60C. That was while it was encoding for many hours. It would get pretty slow after a while and would decrease in the performance dramatically when it reached that temperature.. Best bet would be to try and either clean out the fans with some air, or open it up from the bottom(If you're lucky, it will have some screws) and use some air throughout the inside. . If you have any sort of Anti Static Gloves or Wristbands it always good to wear those to prevent electric shock and frying it. Laptops have chips rather than cards. Is this on the G61 or a different model? But yeah, best bet would be the components are getting a bit too hot.

[ARTgames]

Could almost boil water on that laptop. It must give out a smell of heated circuits boards near the vent there!