Resolved Random errors. Hardware or software problem?

bleh, my computer is acting up randomly and annoyingly. occasionally, it forgets what time it is when I go to put it in standby and it'd immediately wake up and throw a fit about how all of the security certificates are expired. This frustrates me to no end and idk why. I thought it was the battery on the motherboard, nope, reads 3.08v.

After I did that, the bios reset and all hell breaks loose. Took me an hour to straighten it out only to leave it running a "startup repair" overnight. **** started breaking, windows decides to install drivers to disabled hardware that got reenabled during the reset, the whole system starts acting extreamly sluggish. I'd try to do something and nothing, then bam! it floods the screen. The startup repair fixed that thankfully, else a reinstall would be in order.

With system chaos somewhat calmed, things are working ok except when it autologs me in on boot, the icons in the system tray disappear. A logoff/logon was required, not fun. >=[

If anyone has ideas, drop a comment.

 

Try setting up a standard password login for a few restarts. If it seems stable, set the auto-login again.

Check Device Manager, if you need to disable hardware in the BIOS, there could be driver problems or the "manager" software that runs them. For example, the software manager for the graphics adapter loads just before login (and might be one of the icons that sits in the Notification Tray).

When you have a successful login, watch the icons appearing in the Tray. If one lags a lot, that program is probably the culprit. When Notification icons don't appear, it means the software for them is not running/starting up properly.

Also try looking through Event Viewer.

Matt

 

I ran a chkdsk on my hard drive and it turn out ok. I checked the system for corrupt files and defragged the hard drive. I also did a total power down including removing the bios battery for a total refresh and that seems to help alot. So far, the problems have not resurfaced. All the icons in the system tray appear as normal and no more glitches.