No it didn’t take me hours until I responded by typing this. I just never gotten around to it.
I can’t say the reinstall was flawless. There was a .. few.. problems. Some of them where worked out easily, but others.. others needed extra help from a friend of mine.
But here I am. I still got some more work to do, getting everything back to normal. It has fixed the “Windows booting slower than normal” issue. But has it fixed my lock up issue? .. Well… for now. I say it’s another annoying “temp fix”, and it’ll be back griefing me.
However, this isn’t something I have done. The last time there was a reinstallation of Windows, was when I had my new hardware installed. And that was… hmmm…. 6-7 months ago? Anything could’ve been downloaded that started fucking up my games by then. I still say it’s my video card causing it.
But.. something just doesn’t make sense about that though. The day before I reinstalled Windows, angry was asking me if I watch movies on my computer, and yes I do, and told him I use PowerDVD to watch them. Then he asks me “What’s the longest movie you’ve watched before it locks up?”, and I said “Videos are immune to the lock up issue.”
Videos are supposed to really put a strain on the GPU. Yet, they don’t cause any lock ups. So there’s a possibility it could just be a software-related issue.
Since the reinstallation of Windows was.. somewhat successful, I feel slightly confident to get everything I wanna keep off of my E drive, and reformat it. When, I don’t know right now. I don’t know if it’s even safe to do so.