computer getting slow for not the usual reasons

[paulmars]

no p to p of file share

I do not like my isp, they really do sux. I need to change, but cost is an
issue. Maybe they did change and now limit my uploading?

I could ask, but past experience tells me not to bother. I trust nothing
they say to me. They insist that I can send email attachments up to 7meg,
but anything over 3.5 meg fails. Everytime, even though I could send even 10
meg attachments with my dialup. That is not the only issue. They are the
worst I hav ever experienced!!!

Its brighthouse and they gave me a tampabay.rr.com Email. tampabay.rr is
road runner. Maybe those two companies are connected. Everyone I speak to
who has roadrunner likes it. I hav found no one who has bright house.

I can not afford cable. I was paying 9.95$ for dialup when bright house
offered me 768 cable for 14.95$ which was too good to refuse. After using
cable, I just cant go back to dialup. Of course one advantage to cable was
the video uploading, which is no more.

I did find a 24.95$ cable, but again this is more money and are they better,
I do not kno.

This has nothing to do with TV or does it? Its a TV card attached to my air
antenna. I hav no cable TV, I never hav.

P

 

[paulmars]

Last night was interesting. In less then two hours it rebooted twice all by
itself. I rebooted it several times and twice it froose on the blue "windows
is starting up" screen and twice it froose after the desktop loaded, but
before desktop icons or tastbar.

I installed my CD/DVD software (3 nero apps). Some if which requre a reboot.
Sometimes I just rebooted before loading the next exe. One of the incomplete
windows boots was after installing one of those nero exe, so I uninstalled
and rebooted before installing it again.

I am feeling like maybe it is the hard drive. I did multiple tests on the
cpu, mainboard, and ram. Only one seagate test on the hard drive. All
passed.

p

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Paul

Why not post a complete copy of the Stop Error message?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[paul]

Fixed. Remember that cable I replaced? It was a new cable and I was getting
no more error messages. Well my problems got worse and worse finally
resulting in my BIOS sometimes not seeing the HDD. So, I replaced the cable
again and all is well now

BTW: I brought it to a shop and they could not find anything with all their
hardware diagnostics. Once I got it back and started to get the cant find
the HDD then I replaced the cable.

 

[Daave]

Fixed. Remember that cable I replaced? It was a new cable and I was
getting no more error messages. Well my problems got worse and worse
finally resulting in my BIOS sometimes not seeing the HDD. So, I
replaced the cable again and all is well now

Thanks for posting back, Paul.

Odd that the second cable didn't lead to similar error messages you
received when your first cable was also giving you grief. How did you
determine the BIOS sometimes couldn't see the HDD?

Anyway, great detective work!

(But I still think you should dump Norton and get more RAM...)

 

[paul]

I dumped norton last year. Error on boot said cant find HDD. Not in those
words though.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Good result Paul.


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Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Azagtoth]

2/23/2007 12:21:20 PM
Pagefile Physical Location: C:\pagefile.sys
Current Pagefile Usage: 213 MB
Session Peak Usage: 499 MB
Current Pagefile Size: 562 MB

2/22/2007 2:13:05 PM
Pagefile Physical Location: C:\pagefile.sys
Current Pagefile Usage: 18 MB
Session Peak Usage: 18 MB
Current Pagefile Size: 432 MB

Time: 3:21:34 AM

User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: PAULMARS
Description:
Windows saved user PAULMARS\Administrator registry while an application or
service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by
the
user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it
is

1. Saving registry error: Rediculously common. I wouldn't bother.

2. Page file, set the page file to 0. Yes your system will be slow.
Reboot in safe mode, and set it back to 700 MB or whatever.

 

[Guest]

Hello,

I had my "svchost.exe - system" running between 90 and 50% and at the same
time, int explorer was between 40 and 60%.

Sounds high. What should I do? As you know there are many "svchost.exe" on
a computer.

 

[Guest]

Hello again,

I just checked my CPU temp and it ran between 92 and 66. What should it be
and what is the warning number?

 

[Bob I]

Temperature will be vary due to load, and the warning temperature should
be set slightly lower than the CPU limit stated at the CPU manufacturers
web site for the processor in question.

 

[Joe Grover]

Download and install Process Explorer at the following URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx

This utility will show you two important things:

- Where each svchost.exe process is located (as some malware may run as a
file called svchost.exe to avoid normal detection, the legit file resides in
your System32 folder)
- What that process is running

For example, I have ActiveSync installed, so one of my svchost.exe's has
"rapimgr.exe" listed underneath it.

Look for the offending svchost.exe and see if it's running wuauclt.exe,
which is the Windows Automatic update service. That seems to be a common
offender. If so:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916089

Joe