Core i5 Turboboost/C states Freezing computer

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I'm not sure which, but I just had a heck of a time getting my computer to boot up and not freeze. It would run until it finished booting windows, then everything would freeze. This happened until I turned off turboboost and all the c states on the processor.

What could be causing this? Is the processor going bad?

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