Re: Help Please! I My computer is screwed!

Thanks very much Daave, I'll try that out now.

I did chkdsk on both partitions and found 0 bad sectors on both and no
errors. I always ran defrag on them often so that could be why. I
always shutdown through the start menu as well... so I've been careful.
Upon newly installing the OS I installed AVG, ZoneAlarm, SP1 + 61
updates (not finding or installing SP2 automatically for some reason),
Ad Aware, Spybot. I ran all these and Spybot and Ad Aware found the
usual 2 that always seem to find their way on or are installed with Win
XP. lol

I did notice however that the problem came back after I tried
installing chipset drivers for the motherboard. The motherboard is an
MSI Neo Platinum K8N. Nvidia 3 chipset.

Symptoms include randomly lagging mouse, freeze upon opening my
computer, no lag opening browsers. I'm paranoid about opening my
computer now because it's such a pain to close down once it lags. This
might be a clue to the problem. The mouse lag problem appeared about 5
months ago. It was never too severe and I couldn't fix it so I just
lived with it. Could these problems be related? Upon a fresh install
the mouse lag disappeared. Now it's back with the other problem. I
also notice a bit of a slowdown with the video card drivers installed.
I'm wondering if this is related to the mouse and my computer, etc.

Again my system is:

Windows XP
AMD 64 3200+
2 GB OCZ Gold RAM
MSI Neo Platinum K8N
2 Sp2004C 200GB SATA Samsung Drives in RAID 0

ATI Radeon 9800 XT 6.8 Catalyst Drivers (no microsoft framenet install,
which was required for the last few updates, seems normal without now,
will try to install if i can and see the difference)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Soundcard


Daave wrote:
julian8888888@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I did the virus scan with AVG and I found no viruses. Now I'm running
Chides on both partitions of the Raid 0.

The problem: I go to open my computer and it stalls using up all my
processor. However, upon a fresh install everything runs fast. I
don't get it. Any ideas on what is causing this?

Did you check your drive? See this page for the Samsung Spin Point hard
drive diagnostic utility Hotel 202.exe:

http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/hutil.htm

Also check that your RAM is seated properly. A memory test would be a
good idea, too:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

or

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/memtest.html

If you feel your problem is software-related, you need to determine what
you are doing between the fresh install (format the drive and clean
install, right?) and the time you are experiencing the sluggishness. For
pointers,

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

Common culprits are viruses/worms/Trojans, your PC becoming a boot and
spewing out loads of spam (you are running a properly configured
firewall, no?), aware/spy (Ad and Spigot Search & Destroy are good for
these), and too many apps/processes running in the background. Use
scoffing for this. Or Startup Control Panel:

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

Finally, there's always the option of installing and running Hijack This
and posting the log in the appropriate forum:

http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/

I noticed that you ran Easy. It's probably better not to run this
program at all.

Regarding System Restore, here's a good resource:

<http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ball
ew_03may19.mspx>

Note the suggestion on Compatibility Mode. This might shed some light
when you run Win (which I believe you said was making your PC lag).

Let us know how you're making out!

--
Dave

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