Re: Help Please! I My computer is screwed!

RAM is seated properly. I ran the tests and no errors. I swapped it
out for some other RAM and the problem is still there so I know now
it's not the RAM.

I think it's definitely a software problem or perhaps the hard drives.
But if it was the hard drives, I would gain no benefit from a fresh
install of the OS would I? The strange thing is, the computer runs
great for a while after a fresh install of the OS and then this problem
appears randomly and inconsistently.

If it was the hard drives this problem would be constant wouldn't it?

I ran Trend Micro online and found no viruses. That's two scanners
showing no viruses. So it's not a virus, it's not RAM, not spyware,
not corrupt registry (fresh OS install), no errors running chkdsk. I'm
going to do a fresh install yet again and this time won't install the
video card drivers or the chipset drivers and see what happens.

I'm going to try and do the hard drive test if I can after the fresh OS
install, because right now it's impossible to access anything.

Still stumped.

Cheers,
Julian






julian8888888@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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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