Author Topic: Need urgent help with computer (Read 816 times)

Capt. Pork · « **on:** November 23, 2003, 01:30:45 PM »

I have a 2.4 Gig pentium 4 that's several months old and it's been running like a late model commodore 64 for the last few days. I've defragged, scanned for viruses, checked for errors in windows and C-drive, closed all applications and minimzed processes. System restore isn't working.

It's so slow that it takes a good 20 seconds just to open e-mails. Almost as long to launch MS word or to open existing Word docs.

Please help, if you can. I live on the 17th floor and I'm afraid this machine won't live through a defenestration.

Thanks in advance.

Dingbat · « **Reply #1 on:** November 23, 2003, 01:36:10 PM »

Anything change lately or did it just start happening?

Since you mention sys restore one can assume you're using xp... What processes are running in the background?

capt. apathy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 23, 2003, 01:36:33 PM »

are all your fans still attached and running?

do you have a monitoring program? how are your temps?

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #3 on:** November 23, 2003, 01:44:02 PM »

The machine has three fans and they all seem to be working. It's a very well ventilated case(was selected for that reason). I am using XP, and System restore attempts to restore, reboots and only then informs me that it was unable to restore the system to that specific date. I have 30 processes running, sometimes less. All of them, except for Weatherbug, appear to be essential.

The changes that took place in the last few days, well that's a bit more complicated. I just moved here, and the computer was in a padded box(extremely well padded in a box which itself was popcorned and sealed in a larger box) for a while. But when I hooked it up in the beginning of last week, it ran pretty well. It's gotten much worse in the days since. It also locks up pretty frequently. I also noticed about a 50% increase in popups.

capt. apathy · « **Reply #4 on:** November 23, 2003, 01:51:13 PM »

you should post this over in "hardware and software". there is a lot of good help over there from guys I never see posting in the o'club

pugg666 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 23, 2003, 02:09:30 PM »

visually check the cpu fan and make sure it's still attached (last time a heard intels would automatically slowdown processor clockspeed it a major temp increase was detected)

just a shot in the dark

zmeg · « **Reply #6 on:** November 23, 2003, 02:13:28 PM »

Run adaware, and check all your temps.

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #7 on:** November 23, 2003, 04:58:14 PM »

Thanks

Animal · « **Reply #8 on:** November 23, 2003, 05:00:41 PM »

If the temps are fine, then it seems like time for a format.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 23, 2003, 07:19:51 PM »

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Originally posted by Animal
If the temps are fine, then it seems like time for a format.

If you can get it to work at all, start saving everything that matters to you. If its going downhill you might not have a lot of run time left on it. Even if you don'r have to reformat it, this won't be a waste of time.

I had a PC that had a bad ram problem, and it did some weird things kind of like you described. Just a possiblility, but you might have RAM that went bad. But then again, I guess anythings possible.

eskimo

Torque · « **Reply #10 on:** November 23, 2003, 07:26:39 PM »

Try removing any Winblow's patches another shot in the derk.

Vulcan · « **Reply #11 on:** November 23, 2003, 07:55:03 PM »

Take your soundcard out and if its onboard disable it.

Might be a driver/irq conflict. Its very similar to problems I've seen on SB Lives/128s/PCI's.

Dago · « **Reply #12 on:** November 23, 2003, 08:32:51 PM »

Empty your Temporary Internet Files folder in Windows.

Its probably loaded with all that porn you have been looking at.

dago

Lazerus · « **Reply #13 on:** November 23, 2003, 10:43:04 PM »

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Originally posted by Dago
Empty your Temporary Internet Files folder in Windows.

Its probably loaded with all that porn you have been looking at.

dago

LOL

Charon · « **Reply #14 on:** November 24, 2003, 10:31:15 AM »

Sounds Spyware related as zmeg noted. I had some similar problems and used "Spybot - Search and Destroy" to get rid of them. http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=start

For comfort, I would even back up essential files and reformat (or even FDisk/reformat) and use a browser like Mozialla or Opera. You can get rid of adware, but sometimes it has corrupted the browser, etc. leading to poor system reliability.

Charon