Hi there.
I don't know if this is where I put this - I was debating asking for help in the GPA student help forum, but I really don't think it's a virus.
Basically, occasionally when I'm running the internet, my computer will hang realllyyyyyy badly. It's not just the internet hanging, it's the whole thing - my cursor will stay like the link hand no matter where I put it on the screen, it won't lat me click on any of the items in my taskbar or system tray, etc. Occasionally, pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL or just waiting for it will end with it going back to normal, but just as often, it will end with a BSOD that says something about a bad driver, and the file that's causing the issue is "Watchdog.sys".
Now, I'd been having issues with Avira, and I thought that it was a corrupted Avira file, so I decided to do what I'd been planning for weeks and switched to Avast. Several weeks later, I'm still having the problem.
Usually, while the system's hanging, either a few seconds before it dies or a few seconds before it starts running again, the computer will beep once. This doesn't always happen, though.
Could you help me figure out what's causing the problem, where the file is, and how to fix it?
Also, let me know if this is in the wrong area of the forum.
I don't know if this is where I put this - I was debating asking for help in the GPA student help forum, but I really don't think it's a virus.
Basically, occasionally when I'm running the internet, my computer will hang realllyyyyyy badly. It's not just the internet hanging, it's the whole thing - my cursor will stay like the link hand no matter where I put it on the screen, it won't lat me click on any of the items in my taskbar or system tray, etc. Occasionally, pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL or just waiting for it will end with it going back to normal, but just as often, it will end with a BSOD that says something about a bad driver, and the file that's causing the issue is "Watchdog.sys".
Now, I'd been having issues with Avira, and I thought that it was a corrupted Avira file, so I decided to do what I'd been planning for weeks and switched to Avast. Several weeks later, I'm still having the problem.
Usually, while the system's hanging, either a few seconds before it dies or a few seconds before it starts running again, the computer will beep once. This doesn't always happen, though.
Could you help me figure out what's causing the problem, where the file is, and how to fix it?
Also, let me know if this is in the wrong area of the forum.
