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Hi!
I wonder if there's somebody able to help me out with a problem...
My problem is - as far as I can tell (and I've been going through internet
time and again searching for help) - rather unusual. I've found two threads
with guys having what seems to be the same problem, that's all.
The problem manifests itself by a number of symptoms. When booting the
system it takes way too long to boot up (about 2 minutes or so), and the
computer seems unstable right after booting...the sound is distorted, any
startup-s/w takes forever to initialize and a couple of times I've had the
"windows have recovered from a severe error"-flag popping up.
When running, the comp is "busy" (lack of better words to describe it) and
the processors workload is somewhere between 10-20 percent even when I'm not
doing anything, not running any s/w etc, and when checking the processes in
task manager there's no s/w taking up ANY power from the processor, i.e. in
the "processes"-tab it says that system idle process is at 99%, just as it
should be. But when I'm looking at the performance-tab it says the
processor's working at 10-20% or something in that order.
And the processor is clearly busy doing something, because every 4-5 seconds
the whole system seems to hang for a fragment of a second or so. When I move
the mouse around it "stutters" for a very small period of time and then keeps
moving. When I try to start some s/w, it takes forever, and make the computer
unresponsive. And when I'm copying a file from one folder/disc to another,
explorer.exe stops responding for awhile.
I've done everything I can think of to figure this out and fix the problem.
I've checked for viruses (with F-secure as well as Norton), installed new
drivers, checked the harddrives with a numder of diskchecking s/w (such as
diskkeeper, hdtest etc), checked the memory (Memtest), checked for spyware
(MS antispyware and spybot)....but to no avail.
I had the same problem for about six months ago, and finally had to give up
and format the entire drive. Back then I thought I would be rid of this
particular problem for good, but now that it's back I feel I must come to
terms with it, I can't format my drive two-three times every year...*lol*
My system is:
CPU: AMD Athlon 2.8 Barton
MB: Asus A7N8X-X
RAM: 1GB A-data 266MHz
GPU: Radeon 9600XT 256MB
System drive: WDC 160GB 7200 rpm
OS: Win XP Pro SP2 (the problem occured the first time before installing SP2)
Sorry for all spelling-errors, I'm not native in the english language!
Any help would be appreciated!!
I wonder if there's somebody able to help me out with a problem...
My problem is - as far as I can tell (and I've been going through internet
time and again searching for help) - rather unusual. I've found two threads
with guys having what seems to be the same problem, that's all.
The problem manifests itself by a number of symptoms. When booting the
system it takes way too long to boot up (about 2 minutes or so), and the
computer seems unstable right after booting...the sound is distorted, any
startup-s/w takes forever to initialize and a couple of times I've had the
"windows have recovered from a severe error"-flag popping up.
When running, the comp is "busy" (lack of better words to describe it) and
the processors workload is somewhere between 10-20 percent even when I'm not
doing anything, not running any s/w etc, and when checking the processes in
task manager there's no s/w taking up ANY power from the processor, i.e. in
the "processes"-tab it says that system idle process is at 99%, just as it
should be. But when I'm looking at the performance-tab it says the
processor's working at 10-20% or something in that order.
And the processor is clearly busy doing something, because every 4-5 seconds
the whole system seems to hang for a fragment of a second or so. When I move
the mouse around it "stutters" for a very small period of time and then keeps
moving. When I try to start some s/w, it takes forever, and make the computer
unresponsive. And when I'm copying a file from one folder/disc to another,
explorer.exe stops responding for awhile.
I've done everything I can think of to figure this out and fix the problem.
I've checked for viruses (with F-secure as well as Norton), installed new
drivers, checked the harddrives with a numder of diskchecking s/w (such as
diskkeeper, hdtest etc), checked the memory (Memtest), checked for spyware
(MS antispyware and spybot)....but to no avail.
I had the same problem for about six months ago, and finally had to give up
and format the entire drive. Back then I thought I would be rid of this
particular problem for good, but now that it's back I feel I must come to
terms with it, I can't format my drive two-three times every year...*lol*
My system is:
CPU: AMD Athlon 2.8 Barton
MB: Asus A7N8X-X
RAM: 1GB A-data 266MHz
GPU: Radeon 9600XT 256MB
System drive: WDC 160GB 7200 rpm
OS: Win XP Pro SP2 (the problem occured the first time before installing SP2)
Sorry for all spelling-errors, I'm not native in the english language!
Any help would be appreciated!!