C
Christie
I am experiencing a really irritating computer problem and am hoping
for a little guidance to get it fixed. Let me explain...
For approximately one month now, about 50% of the time I reboot or
cold start my computer, the clock in the system tray is like in
hyperspeed until everything loads completely. Then the clock returns
to a normal speed, just off by many minutes, which I then must fix
myself.
I have a Wintergreen system, 2.53 mhz, 512 mb ram, 80 gig hard drive,
and running Windows XP Home. I bought it in July 2003 from
TigerDirect.com. Everything works great on this computer and I never
have any trouble with it at all. I have run numerous virus scans
using Nortons AV 2003 (now uninstalled), Panda Titanium, and Trend
Micro (online) and all come out completely clean. I have posted this
problem on several "pc help" type message boards and I seem to be
confusing many people and someone suggested I try here.
Tonight someone suggested I try booting up in safe mode. So what I
did is I went into msconfig and chose "Diagnostic Startup" and tried
that. It booted up normally. Then I tried normal startup, and then
selected which programs to start at startup, since I don't like alot
of things running at startup. The clock was again in hyperspeed.
Then I chose again to start in Diagnostic Startup and this time it was
in hyperspeed too, however, like I said how it goes in hyperspeed
until everything loads and then once everything on the desktop and all
is loaded the clock slows down to normal? Well in Diagnostic Startup
it never stopped! It stayed in hyperspeed mode the entire time! I
even right clicked on the clock, chose "Adjust date/time" and watched
as my clock just spun around like crazy! It's like the become
seconds, literally!
My Event Viewer in Admin Tools looks screwy now because when the clock
does this you'll see things startup and all at one time.. then all of
a sudden the Event Viewer will show the time changed back several
minutes and other things being done then. It's weird!
Oh, one other thing. When the clock seems to be in this hyperspeed
mode, the screensaver comes on superfast (like within a minute or two)
and like the starfield screensaver is also going in superfast mode too
with stars flying all over the screen really fast! When this
superfast thing is happening, even the cursor is in hyperfast mode!
Any suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks,
Christie
for a little guidance to get it fixed. Let me explain...
For approximately one month now, about 50% of the time I reboot or
cold start my computer, the clock in the system tray is like in
hyperspeed until everything loads completely. Then the clock returns
to a normal speed, just off by many minutes, which I then must fix
myself.
I have a Wintergreen system, 2.53 mhz, 512 mb ram, 80 gig hard drive,
and running Windows XP Home. I bought it in July 2003 from
TigerDirect.com. Everything works great on this computer and I never
have any trouble with it at all. I have run numerous virus scans
using Nortons AV 2003 (now uninstalled), Panda Titanium, and Trend
Micro (online) and all come out completely clean. I have posted this
problem on several "pc help" type message boards and I seem to be
confusing many people and someone suggested I try here.
Tonight someone suggested I try booting up in safe mode. So what I
did is I went into msconfig and chose "Diagnostic Startup" and tried
that. It booted up normally. Then I tried normal startup, and then
selected which programs to start at startup, since I don't like alot
of things running at startup. The clock was again in hyperspeed.
Then I chose again to start in Diagnostic Startup and this time it was
in hyperspeed too, however, like I said how it goes in hyperspeed
until everything loads and then once everything on the desktop and all
is loaded the clock slows down to normal? Well in Diagnostic Startup
it never stopped! It stayed in hyperspeed mode the entire time! I
even right clicked on the clock, chose "Adjust date/time" and watched
as my clock just spun around like crazy! It's like the become
seconds, literally!
My Event Viewer in Admin Tools looks screwy now because when the clock
does this you'll see things startup and all at one time.. then all of
a sudden the Event Viewer will show the time changed back several
minutes and other things being done then. It's weird!
Oh, one other thing. When the clock seems to be in this hyperspeed
mode, the screensaver comes on superfast (like within a minute or two)
and like the starfield screensaver is also going in superfast mode too
with stars flying all over the screen really fast! When this
superfast thing is happening, even the cursor is in hyperfast mode!
Any suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks,
Christie