slow performance after 10 min.

[Guest]

My computer goes slow ~10 minutes after I turn it on or restart. I checked for viruses and spyware using McAfee, Adaware, and spybot with updated patches and stuff. That didn't help. I checked for errors on the hard disk and there were none found. The hard disk wasn't fragmented either. One thing I noticed is a continous grumbling of the hard drive after the computer goes slow, like it's continously reading something. This problem started 2 days ago, when I was playing a game and noticed the slow lagging performance I was starting to get. Any ideas?

 

[tgk]

sounds like heat.....my ibm drive failed shortly after
these same symptoms.....back up anyway in case!

-----Original Message-----
My computer goes slow ~10 minutes after I turn it on or

restart. I checked for viruses and spyware using McAfee,
Adaware, and spybot with updated patches and stuff. That
didn't help. I checked for errors on the hard disk and
there were none found. The hard disk wasn't fragmented
either. One thing I noticed is a continous grumbling of
the hard drive after the computer goes slow, like it's
continously reading something. This problem started 2
days ago, when I was playing a game and noticed the slow
lagging performance I was starting to get. Any ideas?

 

[Spike9458]

Sometimes running your virus software in the background all the time will
cause things to be slower than cold molasses.

--Jim