I have an older Alienware Aurora (I know, don't ask) and it has all of a sudden gotten REALLY flaky and unstable. At first, I thought it was the power supply (which DID burn out), so I replaced it. Afterwards, it would continue to spike, crash and was completely unstable.
I than saw some people talking about the liquid cooler unit. Pulled it out, opened it, was all clear. I than replaced it with a "beefier" unit anyways. Regardless of what I do, I can't seem to find the problem. Same thing happens even in safe mode.
I took this from Process Explorer and am "hoping" someone might be able to see something that I don't.
Process CPU Private Bytes Working Set PID Description Company Name VirusTotal Verified Signer
System Idle Process 85.60 0 K 24 K 0
procexp64.exe 4.93 23,624 K 46,716 K 6024 Sysinternals Process Explorer Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com (Verified) Microsoft Corporation
HWMonitor.exe 4.37 4,560 K 11,512 K 6124
Interrupts 1.64 0 K 0 K n/a Hardware Interrupts and DPCs
dwm.exe 1.46 28,144 K 30,364 K 3216 Desktop Window Manager Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
csrss.exe 0.40 2,392 K 9,472 K 520
taskmgr.exe 0.31 2,600 K 9,344 K 5180
explorer.exe 0.22 55,472 K 70,884 K 3344 Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
System 0.21 176 K 2,400 K 4
SooloosHelper.exe 0.15 23,352 K 19,820 K 4652 (No signature was present in the subject)
chrome.exe 0.13 131,344 K 283,772 K 4664 Google Chrome Google Inc. (Verified) Google Inc
chrome.exe 0.11 93,552 K 97,688 K 1312 Google Chrome Google Inc. (Verified) Google Inc
NvStreamNetworkService.exe 0.08 7,364 K 14,724 K 2536
NIS.exe 0.07 51,344 K 12,088 K 2200 Norton Internet Security Symantec Corporation (Verified) Symantec Corporation
IEMonitor.exe 0.05 1,560 K 5,912 K 5012 Internet Download Manager agent for click monitoring in IE-based browsers Tonec Inc. (Verified) Tonec Inc.
winword.exe 0.04 89,076 K 115,356 K 5264 Microsoft Word Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Corporation
NvStreamUserAgent.exe 0.03 7,072 K 16,492 K 3484
AppleMobileDeviceService.exe 0.03 3,880 K 11,312 K 1812 YSLoader.exe Apple Inc. (Verified) Apple Inc.
chrome.exe 0.03 94,672 K 135,404 K 1632 Google Chrome Google Inc. (Verified) Google Inc
NvStreamService.exe 0.02 7,396 K 10,168 K 2292 NVIDIA Streamer Service NVIDIA Corporation (Verified) NVIDIA Corporation
svchost.exe 0.02 8,232 K 15,488 K 1980 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
XBoxStat.exe 0.02 2,024 K 6,188 K 4580 XBoxStat.exe Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 0.01 14,092 K 15,940 K 1364 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
WerFault.exe 0.01 2,856 K 10,980 K 3920
iPodService.exe 0.01 2,284 K 6,584 K 5096 iPodService Module (64-bit) Apple Inc. (Verified) Apple Inc.
SyncCompanion.exe 0.01 20,072 K 17,264 K 4452 (No signature was present in the subject)
svchost.exe 0.01 12,984 K 22,824 K 936 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
svchost.exe < 0.01 12,876 K 14,440 K 1660 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
Fitbit Connect.exe < 0.01 7,288 K 17,716 K 4696 Fitbit Connect Desktop Client Fitbit, Inc. (Certificate expired) Fitbit, Inc.
NvBackend.exe < 0.01 14,992 K 21,416 K 3688 NVIDIA Backend NVIDIA Corporation (Verified) NVIDIA Corporation
FitbitConnectService.exe < 0.01 13,780 K 19,408 K 2008 Fitbit Connect Service Fitbit, Inc. (Certificate expired) Fitbit, Inc.
svchost.exe < 0.01 4,144 K 8,276 K 956 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
taskhost.exe < 0.01 12,980 K 14,864 K 3224 Host Process for Windows Tasks Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
officeclicktorun.exe < 0.01 25,312 K 34,644 K 1908 Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe < 0.01 20,720 K 36,232 K 1040 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
svchost.exe < 0.01 9,912 K 12,600 K 2040 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
NIS.exe < 0.01 15,728 K 10,204 K 3748
IDMan.exe < 0.01 7,420 K 15,432 K 4636 Internet Download Manager (IDM) Tonec Inc. (Verified) Tonec Inc.
wmpnetwk.exe < 0.01 10,796 K 11,284 K 4052 Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
csrss.exe < 0.01 2,076 K 4,448 K 448
svchost.exe < 0.01 160,140 K 169,956 K 712 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
iTunesHelper.exe < 0.01 3,472 K 11,452 K 4872 iTunesHelper Apple Inc. (Verified) Apple Inc.
nvvsvc.exe < 0.01 4,280 K 11,968 K 1524
winlogon.exe 2,416 K 6,744 K 576
wininit.exe 1,296 K 4,260 K 532
svchost.exe 3,856 K 8,920 K 804 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
svchost.exe 2,360 K 5,536 K 1152 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
svchost.exe 19,180 K 22,876 K 468 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
svchost.exe 1,776 K 5,512 K 2348 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
svchost.exe 2,372 K 5,740 K 2868 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
svchost.exe 4,384 K 9,764 K 1948 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
spoolsv.exe 6,148 K 11,452 K 1620 Spooler SubSystem App Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
splwow64.exe 1,340 K 4,260 K 732 Print driver host for 32bit applications Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
smss.exe 376 K 1,024 K 288
services.exe 5,396 K 9,824 K 620
procexp.exe 2,120 K 7,076 K 2132 Sysinternals Process Explorer Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com (Verified) Microsoft Corporation
nvxdsync.exe 6,788 K 18,268 K 1516
nvvsvc.exe 2,084 K 6,856 K 876 NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 347.25 NVIDIA Corporation (Verified) NVIDIA Corporation
nvtray.exe 3,624 K 10,248 K 4412 NVIDIA Settings NVIDIA Corporation (Verified) NVIDIA Corporation
nvSCPAPISvr.exe 2,532 K 5,820 K 904 Stereo Vision Control Panel API Server NVIDIA Corporation (Verified) NVIDIA Corporation
NvNetworkService.exe 4,484 K 8,816 K 2264 NVIDIA Network Service NVIDIA Corporation (Verified) NVIDIA Corporation
mDNSResponder.exe 1,960 K 5,468 K 1880 Bonjour Service Apple Inc. (Verified) Apple Inc.
lsm.exe 2,452 K 4,160 K 660
lsass.exe 5,360 K 13,140 K 644 Local Security Authority Process Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
GWX.exe 3,092 K 944 K 4068 GWX Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
GfExperienceService.exe 3,604 K 9,472 K 800 NVIDIA GeForce ExperienceService NVIDIA Corporation (Verified) NVIDIA Corporation
dllhost.exe 2,036 K 6,900 K 5324
conhost.exe 908 K 2,800 K 2548
conhost.exe 992 K 3,180 K 3668 Console Window Host Microsoft Corporation (Verified) Microsoft Windows
conhost.exe 1,216 K 4,252 K 3492
chrome.exe 34,648 K 47,552 K 4480 Google Chrome Google Inc. (Verified) Google Inc
chrome.exe 25,192 K 27,780 K 3064 Google Chrome Google Inc. (Verified) Google Inc
chrome.exe 26,040 K 32,188 K 4932 Google Chrome Google Inc. (Verified) Google Inc
chrome.exe 31,600 K 39,172 K 5564 Google Chrome Google Inc. (Verified) Google Inc
audiodg.exe 15,472 K 15,252 K 4456
atiesrxx.exe 1,276 K 4,496 K 332 AMD External Events Service Module AMD (Verified) Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher
atieclxx.exe 2,232 K 6,844 K 1264
armsvc.exe 1,116 K 3,900 K 1788 Adobe Acrobat Update Service Adobe Systems Incorporated (Verified) Adobe Systems
Any help is most appreciated.
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