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To start I've been searching for an answer for over two weeks now. Most people never heard of this issue. I'm desperate at this point.
On to the question. I built a new rig last December. All parts were new, except a secondary HD thats for storage (though its only 3 years old). So I had this weird issue a few weeks ago where when I would start a program like photoshop, a game...etc the screen would scramble sometimes. Or the screen would freeze up (though I could see my cursor move around with no problem). I replaced my video card assuming that was it. Didn't fix it. Then I replaced my monitor, which seemed to have fixed it. Which was great.
After about 2 days a new issue happened. I can't explain this easily but pretend you took a screenshot of your screen right now (with whatever browsers/programs you have open. Obviously this screenshot would take a picture of that moment in time of your screen. The taskbar, browser/site you were looking at, any programs running...etc. So now imagine every few hours as your doing whatever on your pc, that screenshot popped up for about 4 seconds. You can't click anything you see, but you can move your cursor just fine. Then after the 4 seconds it goes back to your current screen. Thats what is happening essentially. It keeps showing me basically my desktop as it was hours ago, like a frozen moment in time. Then it goes away. I mean this isn't freezing up anything, nothing really happens. When I watch youtube and what not, the audio still can be heard for example during the glitch.
Its really odd and I have never seen anything like this. I did update Windows, video drivers, monitor drivers...etc. I've scandisked and defragged my drives. I did update the App Center for the Gigabyte motherboard. Like I said its not the end of the world but its still annoying when it happens just because you have to stop what your doing for a few seconds. As for what I did around the time all this stuff happened was nothing really. Haven't added anything new. Haven't removed anything. Though its when I did get a new screen and tried using two monitors (just for fun, don't use two now). Only thing I do sometimes is go here and delete everything (well that it lets me delete of course): C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp
So why do I think its the motherboard/app center? Well whenever I open the apps on there, this glitch happens every time. Nothing else on my PC causes it to happen like that every time. Any ideas? Can I simply uninstall the app center? Or is essential for my motherboard/PC to work? I should point out that while I am a PC geek, I don't have alot of understanding of motherboards. I actually had to have my friend install the motherboard and hook everything up.
On to the question. I built a new rig last December. All parts were new, except a secondary HD thats for storage (though its only 3 years old). So I had this weird issue a few weeks ago where when I would start a program like photoshop, a game...etc the screen would scramble sometimes. Or the screen would freeze up (though I could see my cursor move around with no problem). I replaced my video card assuming that was it. Didn't fix it. Then I replaced my monitor, which seemed to have fixed it. Which was great.
After about 2 days a new issue happened. I can't explain this easily but pretend you took a screenshot of your screen right now (with whatever browsers/programs you have open. Obviously this screenshot would take a picture of that moment in time of your screen. The taskbar, browser/site you were looking at, any programs running...etc. So now imagine every few hours as your doing whatever on your pc, that screenshot popped up for about 4 seconds. You can't click anything you see, but you can move your cursor just fine. Then after the 4 seconds it goes back to your current screen. Thats what is happening essentially. It keeps showing me basically my desktop as it was hours ago, like a frozen moment in time. Then it goes away. I mean this isn't freezing up anything, nothing really happens. When I watch youtube and what not, the audio still can be heard for example during the glitch.
Its really odd and I have never seen anything like this. I did update Windows, video drivers, monitor drivers...etc. I've scandisked and defragged my drives. I did update the App Center for the Gigabyte motherboard. Like I said its not the end of the world but its still annoying when it happens just because you have to stop what your doing for a few seconds. As for what I did around the time all this stuff happened was nothing really. Haven't added anything new. Haven't removed anything. Though its when I did get a new screen and tried using two monitors (just for fun, don't use two now). Only thing I do sometimes is go here and delete everything (well that it lets me delete of course): C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp
So why do I think its the motherboard/app center? Well whenever I open the apps on there, this glitch happens every time. Nothing else on my PC causes it to happen like that every time. Any ideas? Can I simply uninstall the app center? Or is essential for my motherboard/PC to work? I should point out that while I am a PC geek, I don't have alot of understanding of motherboards. I actually had to have my friend install the motherboard and hook everything up.
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