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- Aug 5, 2014
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte z170-HD3
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- i5-6500
- Graphics
- GTX760
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- Mobile Phone
I've had El Capitan and Windows 10 working for a few months now on Skylake CPU, and seemingly out of nowhere I've begun to encounter a strange issue that prevents me from using either OS.
After booting into either OS, everything start to slow to a crawl within a minute or two. After it hits a certain point, the computer abruptly shuts down. After this slowness begins after logging in, it will begin to happen during start up as well.
When going into Activity Monitor or Task Manager, I can't find a problematic process. It seems the CPU is at 100% usage constantly, and this is the root of the problem (I imagine), but it isn't clear what is slowing things down. I've tried to boot into Safe Mode and run antivirus, but usually the computer shuts down before I can get there.
At this point, I'm pretty baffled. I'm going to disconnect my drives one by one to try and pinpoint a virus (if that's what it is), but other than that, I'm not sure of a solution.
Any ideas?
After booting into either OS, everything start to slow to a crawl within a minute or two. After it hits a certain point, the computer abruptly shuts down. After this slowness begins after logging in, it will begin to happen during start up as well.
When going into Activity Monitor or Task Manager, I can't find a problematic process. It seems the CPU is at 100% usage constantly, and this is the root of the problem (I imagine), but it isn't clear what is slowing things down. I've tried to boot into Safe Mode and run antivirus, but usually the computer shuts down before I can get there.
At this point, I'm pretty baffled. I'm going to disconnect my drives one by one to try and pinpoint a virus (if that's what it is), but other than that, I'm not sure of a solution.
Any ideas?