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    Flickering in and out of not responding

    Looks like it was the HDD after all, switched it on this morning and HDD had failed
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    Flickering in and out of not responding

    everything is on my external, because i had this problem before when i had so much stuff on my laptop it was hard to work out what was doing what and just to many things going on at the same time so i backed it up on my external HDD then did a fresh install of windows 10 to try and work around...
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    Flickering in and out of not responding

    i was just about to ask could it be HDD related as, HDD guardian throw up some errors. ATA errors - 12... i cant seem to find out what these mean aswell as having LOTS of hours on HDD itself over 15000 but the overall evaluation reads passed. Temps seem to have gone a bit high to... i cant find...
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    Flickering in and out of not responding

    ive just ran word side by side with task manager and looking at the CPU and disk, it will start to stop responding at around 15% CPU and the disk rises very quickly to around 20-30% and this is where it keeps not responding and the responding and then not responding and then responding very...
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    Flickering in and out of not responding

    only thing that seems to pop up is Kernal-EventTracing ID 3 and ID 4... but i dont think thats got anything to do with my problem just coincidentally just happens at the same time as i launched and typed in word?
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    Flickering in and out of not responding

    maybe i described it awkwardly, basically the program will go into 'not responding' to 'responding' (thats what i meant about the flickering) but it does this so quickly as in it can go from 'responding' to 'not responding' back and forth a good few times in a second. As for program specifics...
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    Flickering in and out of not responding

    Recently when going onto some programs such as word or even file explorer, the program seems to... flicker in and out of responding repetitively and i have no idea what is causing it or how i can fix thanks in advance to anyone that helps