What happened? (small problem I had)

[Dayve]

Howdy all. Got my new PC a couple of days ago (specs in sig). Been using it since it arrived, playing games and such, no problems. Today I turned it on, everything loaded up fine as usual. I went to Google and tried to order a takeaway from just eat.co.uk. The website was taking forever to load, then the whole PC just froze. CTRL+ALT+DEL did nothing, it was totally frozen so I had no choice but to press the power button.When it was loading back up it gave me a black screen, then some stuff appeared. It said something like:

...checking media...
media present...
start kvp over mgse...

I'm not sure what the letters in that final sentence were but it was something like that. It stayed like that for 30 seconds or so then took me to my bios. I didn't changed anything, just pressed F10 to save and exit. It said "you have made no changes, are you sure?" and I said yes and continued. Then it tried to load up again, but the above message appeared again, but this time it didn't take me to my bios, it just stayed on that screen for a while until once again I turned the power off.

Next time it loaded up fine. I highly doubt that this has anything to do with it but the website I was trying to load when it froze (just eat) is down, and trying to load the website is giving some error in the browser. It's down on other devices I've tried to get to it from as well. I don't see how that could be anything to do with what happened but it's literally the only thing I was doing when it froze.

 

[Dayve]

Update: it happened again, I think it has to do with certain websites. After getting my takeaway (through one of Just Eat's competitors) I sat down to stuff my face and watch a film on a (slightly not legal) streaming website. Once I picked my film, and then my source for the film, the computer froze solid. The "checking media" thing didn't happen when I turned it off/on again this time (and I had to hold down the power button to turn it off again, it was 100% frozen dead).

Anybody know what this can be?

Update #2:

I realized I was missing Java, so I downloaded and installed this. I also uninstalled, re-downloaded and re-installed flash. Went to those websites again and no freezes. Could either of those things be the cause?

 

[Dayve]

Anybody got any ideas? I haven't had the above problem with freezing since I reinstalled Flash player and installed Java, but I had another problem today. I was using the PC fine all morning (8am-12pm), then turned it off and went out for an hour. When I came back and turned the PC back on it froze at the bios loading screen where "pcspecialist" shows.

Second time I turned it on it did the "checking media, start pvie over ixpe" or whatever, and took me to the bios.

Third time it loaded in to windows, then froze solid - hard drive light was solid on as this happened.

Fourth time I restarted it, it finally came on normally.

Something's not right here. Any ideas at all?

 

[SpyderTracks]

Anybody got any ideas? I haven't had the above problem with freezing since I reinstalled Flash player and installed Java, but I had another problem today. I was using the PC fine all morning (8am-12pm), then turned it off and went out for an hour. When I came back and turned the PC back on it froze at the bios loading screen where "pcspecialist" shows.

Second time I turned it on it did the "checking media, start pvie over ixpe" or whatever, and took me to the bios.

Third time it loaded in to windows, then froze solid - hard drive light was solid on as this happened.

Fourth time I restarted it, it finally came on normally.

Something's not right here. Any ideas at all?

That PVIe over ixpe type boot message is because it's trying to boot from a network device. You should be able to disable the network adapter as a boot device in the bios.
The freezes are not normal. Personally I would do a full scan with malwarebytes including rootkits.

I would also check your temps.

 

[Dayve]

That PVIe over ixpe type boot message is because it's trying to boot from a network device. You should be able to disable the network adapter as a boot device in the bios.
The freezes are not normal. Personally I would do a full scan with malwarebytes including rootkits.

I would also check your temps.

Can temps really be a problem when it's freezing literally the moment the PC is turned on? Or the moment the desktop comes up after turning it on? I'll do the malwarebytes scan.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Can temps really be a problem when it's freezing literally the moment the PC is turned on? Or the moment the desktop comes up after turning it on? I'll do the malwarebytes scan.

Yes, temps can take seconds to skyrocket.

The other thing to check is boot into safe mode, see if the freeze still happens in there. If it does, it points to hardware (temps or memory or something), if not then it's definitely software (drivers, virus etc)

 

[Dayve]

Full malwarebytes scan + rootkits (took about 45 minutes) found 0 threats.

Checking temps isn't going to be doable. The computer freezes instantly (mouse cursor still moves around, nothing can be clicked on and nothing responds). Everything's fine up to that point. And when it loads up normally, I'm playing games for hours at a time and everything is fine.