Driver or virus on my pc

[kyt_zzwastaken]

Lately I've been having issues on my laptop, after i close a game that I've played for about 30+ minutes or so half of my screen starts flickering, windows slows down to a crawl and fans on max speed even though i have them on manual at 4k RPM, is this a driver issue or a virus issue? and how do i fix these?

[Huffer]

Doesn't seem like a driver or virus issue; more like a hardware issue. I would run a full UEFI diagnostic on the system, particularly the video system, the memory and storage. 

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06180396

[kyt_zzwastaken]

To no surprise, this did not find any error whatsoever, even ran a full system scan on extensive option, any other thoughts on this? I'm still sure on the driver issue, since a virus shouldn't make your screen flicker, atleast a bitcoin miner

[Huffer]

I tend to agree its more likely a driver than a virus, but a driver issue would likely show up during gaming, not when you shut down. 

[kyt_zzwastaken]

Wondered the same thing, considering I did a clean reinstall (wiping windows partition) maybe a wrongly installed driver? assuming that it has some tweaking options that messes up the GPU when it drops from 60% usage to 0% quickly?

[kyt_zzwastaken · Accepted solution]

If anyone else is having this issue. install DDU, install your GPU driver (NVIDIA/AMD), turn off all your network adapters, boot into safe mode and run DDU, on NVIDIA GPUs check the physx checkbox too, after you've went thru that, select your GPU and press Clean and restart, wait for the process to end and it will automatically restart, after that run the NVIDIA or AMD driver installer and after it's done restart your pc, you should be good to go.