Er, PC has gone weird. Help

[toythatkills]

I turned my PC on (Win7Pro) and it took about five minutes to boot, which is not normal, then when it had loaded my mouse and keyboard weren't responding.

I restarted it via the button on the tower and it took another five minutes and just didn't boot at all.

Then I unplugged it, plugged it back in again and it's booted (in another five minutes) and the mouse and keyboard are working, but the scroll wheel on the mouse is scrolling entire webpages at a time instead of nice and gradually.

Why on Earth has this happened? It was fine a few hours ago. Is my computer dying because I really don't need that right now.

[eastyy]

have you run a virus checker ?

[monel]

My mouse scroll wheel started playing up for a while and then just died completely, recently.

About the slow boot, yeah you should perhaps boot into safe mode and then run malware bytes for malware and a then a good virus killer app if you have one.


Or, you could opt to do a system restore to say a week ago and see if that resolves the problem.

Very likely that someone else knows the exact problem and will advise you better.

[toythatkills]

It's gone back to normal this morning...

Will virus check it just in case, cheers.

[abigsmurf]

Do some HDD and RAM diagnostics, Windows could be struggling in the background with some corruption issues. Check windows event viewer to see if you're getting lots of major faults and errors.

When you say 'failed to boot', how far did it get? Did it POST? did it get to a windows loading screen?

If HW checks come up clean, run hijackthis and post the log here and I'll have a look for anything dodgy

[toythatkills]

There was a windows loading screen, then the screen went black and the cursor appeared which is when a blue "welcome to Windows" screen normally appears, but instead it just stopped just before that point.

[charlesr]

Burn yourself a linux bootdisc in case windows is about to explode. Then at least you'll be able to access your files and back them up if need be.