Client's PC - Extreme System Slowness
Jan 5, 2007
This isn't about my machine.client's PC.Computer is an IBM ThinkCenter, P4 with SATA HD. It's very slow in responding.needs some defrag, but not enough to cause all the slowness experienced. Ran checkdisk in read only...found errors in the I130 file. Ran again in /r and /f modes, and it didn't find any issues. Ran again from within WinXP in read only...same errors found. The hard drive is a Hitachi (yeah, I know) Deskstar.Have run msconfig to clear out non-essential programs. No detectable spyware using (yeah, I know) Spybot or Adaware Personal.Currently running SFC /scannow and will run a defrag when complete but wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions/ideas.
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Jun 10, 2005
I have been having a run of bad luck it seems lately. First, I was having tons of problems with my soundcard audio, CD burning, DVD burning, and a hard drive not being recognized. A whole thread describing that is here.This slowdown stuff started yesterday. I tried to launch an application, and Windows started to lock up. I went in to the task manager to end the process, and when I did that, the system became extremely unstable. The audio I was playing would halt and studder every 2 seconds, the mouse would freeze at the same time as the studdering, etc. I checked the CPU usage in task manager, which by the way took a long time to come up because of the extreme slowness.The CPU was not showing any high usage at all. Very low actually. After a few minutes of this, it was time to press the reset button, because it was not getting any better, and I couldn't click "Start" or reboot the machine properly from task manager.
After I pressed the reset button, Windows started booting very slowly. It would hang at the splash screen for over 10 minutes. Then the screen would just go blank. Then, I tried to start it in safe mode. Last night when doing that, it would hang at System32Mup.sys for about 10 minutes, then it would start Safe Mode and it would be fairly fast, even when doing a virus/spyware scan. (No lockups). I was describing these problems to someone I knew on IRC, and he said to check the +5V power. I quit out of Safe Mode, and went to go look for that in my BIOS. There, it did not show a +5V, only a 3 and 12 if I remember correctly. So, I booted back into Windows normally, which took the 10 minutes again, and downloaded SpeedFan. Sure enough, the +5V was showing at only an average of between 2.5 and 3.5V. I plan to order a new power supply hopefully today, but here is why I'm posting here. Minus the 10 minute hang at Mup.sys last night when trying Safe Mode, it was performing normally in Safe Mode, even while doing virus and spyware scans.
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My window XP Pro sp2 boots process takes long period although all the icons for networking, audio, logitech mouse, trend micro antivirus already appeared on the task bar.I already defraged HD using diskkeeper 10 and optimize PC with tune up utilities 2006.Should I add more 1GB more RAM ? The system performance seem to degrade after long use. I notice the PC use more paging file although the system isn't runnning any other applications other than firefox browser for surfing the net to get email.
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Currently when using my computer it will either seemingly randomly freeze, forcing me to restart it, switch to a black screen for several seconds then continue functioning extremely slowly, or the screen and box will just fail completely, and even though there's power still running through it, nothing shows or happens.I scanned for Viruses etc., and cleaned/quarantined whatever it found, but didn't help.
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here is what i have tried
-removed all unused programs, files
-de-fragged hd
-ran disk cleanup
-removed unneeded programs from start-up process
-ran windows, qt, media player, java and flash updates
-ran virus scanner and registry cleaner
here is what i am working with:
-toshiba tecra a6 laptop, always plugged in to ac power
-windows xp sp2
-intel cpu t1300 @ 1.66ghz
-504 mb ram
-23 gb free space of a 52gb hd
-minimal programs - mostly office 2007, outlook express, nero and adobe plus some tiny insignificant ones like my harmony remote program
-nortons 360 (though i have removed this and still have the problem)
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