Computer Freezes at 12:20am

[HKChigger]

Hey all,

My computer has frozen every single night for almost a week now right at 12:30am. I think it may have been 12:28 or 12:29 once as well but it is happening every night. I have not changed anything recently and I had a similar problem I never paid much attention to with my home computer freezing at 2:07am.


Anyone have any idea what is happning or what to do to fix this? The computer doesn't really come to a full stop but it runs at a REALLY slow speed to the point I just need to force shut it down as it would take 15 minutes + to get to shut down I suspect.

Comp is Toshiba Satellite laptop running Windows XP Pro.

[HKNewBi]

Do you have a virus or spyware checker scheduled to run at this time?

Anything in the event logs?

[HKChigger]

Nothing I can find. I am going to run a bunch of clean up systems and see if that helps at all.

[jayinhongkong]

Yeah it sounds like some kind of spyware. Try Adaware and AVG for starts. That's pretty spooky...lol

[discobay]

Task Manager should show what is eating up the cpu cycles. Most likely is a scheduled anti-virus scan.

[shiver]

hknoob might be right.. also if none of those was set.. try checking your bio settings.. and/or replacing battery on mobo