Computer Hanging

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I recently upgraded my computer and all worked fine for three months.

Overnight, something got corrupted and now the computer constantly 'hangs'
for minutes at a time...not crashes, but just hangs before continuing.
Booting for example, usually take about 5 minutes [literal time]. But it
hangs randomly too.

I've troubleshot problems before, but usually there is some sense to where
to begin, the problem area. This time, I'm lost...don't even know where to
begin. Could be software, could be hardware.

Soliciting a direction here, ideas.

It's an AMD sli configuration, Gforce4 bridge, ath64 3800+ cpu.
 
tooly said:
I recently upgraded my computer and all worked fine for three months.

Overnight, something got corrupted and now the computer constantly 'hangs'
for minutes at a time...not crashes, but just hangs before continuing.
Booting for example, usually take about 5 minutes [literal time]. But it
hangs randomly too.

I've troubleshot problems before, but usually there is some sense to where
to begin, the problem area. This time, I'm lost...don't even know where
to begin. Could be software, could be hardware.

Soliciting a direction here, ideas.

It's an AMD sli configuration, Gforce4 bridge, ath64 3800+ cpu.
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For the last two days, the malady that plagued me for about a month as
described above has disappeared?

This is a real puzzler. I did obtain software to clean up my registry some,
but the problem continued. But now my computer seems to be working fine.
There is no action on my part to correlate to this new behavior.

My thoughts turn to hardware...ram perhaps, or maybe a whacky cpu. I know
overheating can cause a cpu to act funny. All my test pararmeters look ok,
temperatures well within norms. What would cause a computer to constantly
hang for weeks on end, and then clear up one day? I suspect the problem is
still with me though, just a reprieve for a day or two.
 
tooly wrote:
I suspect the problem is still with me though, just a reprieve for a
day or two.

I agree, try these.

RogueRemover
http://www.malwarebytes.org/rogueremover.php
http://www.2-spyware.com/corrupt-anti-spyware
http://netrn.net/spywareblog/archives/2004/05/30/
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/lesgrotte/map.htm#scum

Here is a very good free online scan from world leaders in security.
It will let you know what needs securing ( updating ) & what needs
removing ( security risk )
Secunia Software Inspector
http://secunia.com/software_inspector
 
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