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I am having some trouble with my PC, please help.
Okay, I'll try to make this as clear as possible.
A few days ago, I updated my computer with the latest window xp critical update. After that, I notice something isn't right. My computer seem to running a little slower, especially, when I loaded up winamp and when I tried to load up Adobe Audition at the sametime, my music thats playing on the winamp will skip. Not only that, sometimes when I am copying and pasting files to another folder, my computer would freeze. Now, I tried defragment my harddrive, I ran Microsoft Anti-Spyware program. I ran AVG virus scan. I pretty did alot of trial and error.
Here is my PC specs
Athlon 2600 2.08 GHZ
512 3500 DDR Ram
Asus A7V8X-X Motherboard.
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Graphic Card
IBM EIDE 120 Gigs HD
please help! Thanks alot.
Hmmm. That reminds me. I haven't updated my shit in a while either. Have you tried doing a System Restore to reverse the critical update installation? Then check to see if that works. If it does, it could be that update was a bit buggy. Or there was some conflict during the installation. Usually open programs cause stuff to installation processes.
I tried system restore, it gave me a error saying that it cannot go back to july 16th. Thanks for your help mike
format, reload, start fresh....i do about every 3 months just to stay clean
Yea formatting usually is the best solution. But if you got alot of stuff on your computer like I do, then formatting isnt something you want to do right away. Even backing shit up is tedious. But yea, thats the only situation I could think of. Strange the update did that. And you are using Windows XP SP 2, yes?
yes I installed sp 2. There is no way I formatting my harddrive and starting fresh, because my dad uses this pc as well.
My last piece of advice would be this. Reinstall Adobe Audition & Winamp since you said those were the two programs causing problems. There is an option in Winamp where you can increase the buffering or something of the sort where you can decrease skipping. But I think that is for when you are listening to live streams. Vlad knows alot about the computer stuff. Maybe you can try asking him. Quagmire your up!
gigdy gigdy gigdy!!! Maybe that will wake him up.
do a ctrl alt del and click on the processes tab. See what is running on ur computer. Click and end them and youll find out quickly whats slowin it down.
let me give you an update right now.
I listen to some chillout room peeps advice and, I uninstall my sp2. After rebooting, the update icon popped up asking me to update. So I click yes, and rebooted again. Now, the update icon popped up again, and its downloading something I have no clue what it is, and it is 65 percen done.
Throw that shit out the window
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| Originally posted by mdamon7278 Throw that shit out the window |
I can help!
How is that mobo? I was gonna buy it but got an ABIT instead. Anyways first check your process tree to see all applications that are running under your login. Kill anything that you don't know what it does. Best way to find out? Find the process name then go to start find and type in the process name and end it with .exe
That'll tell you where the file is and if its from a reliable company. If you have process running from weird folders, you should investigate further.
Next on the software side..
After you've gone through your current running processes
Go through your Start>Programs>Start Up Folder
You shouldn't have too many programs executing on start up
If there are just right click and delete
Next thing to check...
Go to Start>Run>MSCONFIG
This will bring up your sys config - here you can see almost every instruction your computer runs when it boots up and is loaded and is running.
Check your Boot.ini to see if a new file is loading and running in the background - you should see an absolute path to the executable file. again check to see if its from a reliable source.
Next check the Services Tab
Here you can check to see what background services are running. Alot of spyware and virus nestle themselves in here since an OS Service which microsoft uses to communicate the OS with any updates, messages, etc, are executed here. Viruses tend to act as a service to some foreign site that will download and install spyware thus lagging your computer. You can uncheck these and recheck them.
Hardware side...
A7V8 is a dual channel memory MOBO correct?
1-make sure the ram you are using are identical
If you OC (overclock)
Check the BIOS and make sure you have the following upgraded
AGP Size, Voltage to RAM and CPU, and disable onboard audio if you have a soundcard. I'd also go with disabling the onboard video since you are running a 9600.
If you have more questions hit me up on AIM.
I build computers and work with them as my career and if i can't help you, i know people that can.
AIM: Brians WRX STi (work) or BlazingMadTrees (home)
it's called 'getting a mac'...
mac uses intel chips =P
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html
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| Originally posted by kid nyce mac uses intel chips =P http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html |
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| Originally posted by Highmay yeah, but until youre on a mac, you work with a glorified calculator... |
just followed brian instruction, now I am going try this again
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| Originally posted by Highmay yeah, but until youre on a mac, you work with a glorified calculator... |
stay on topic, please
Bro, even if you now get yr box to work right....it will still be kinda fragile cause its SP2 related. Yr best bet to having a clean system is to back-up yr data, and do a clean install of XP, I know its a pain in the ass, but believe me its the best, also use Norton Ghost to image yr OS, so next time any crack update or drivers bring your OS down, all u gotta do is boot from GHOST CD and everything is a before...F@$#ing magic...what it does. I make it a point to Image my HDD/OS every 10 days.
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| Originally posted by Sumit_A Bro, even if you now get yr box to work right....it will still be kinda fragile cause its SP2 related. Yr best bet to having a clean system is to back-up yr data, and do a clean install of XP, I know its a pain in the ass, but believe me its the best, also use Norton Ghost to image yr OS, so next time any crack update or drivers bring your OS down, all u gotta do is boot from GHOST CD and everything is a before...F@$#ing magic...what it does. I make it a point to Image my HDD/OS every 10 days. |
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| Originally posted by Sumit_A Marketing and Aesthetics works wonders. iPOD the worst fucking thing ever IMO, sounds bad...no Equilizers...hard to even control the Bass and Treble. Marketing and Aesthetics. Let me see you upgrade your MAC and even have a choice to do so with an entire range of H/W to choose from and customize it. |
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| Originally posted by kid nyce I agree on the clean install of XP with SP2 I went alittle more heavy in my place I'm running a P4 Dual Channel workstation and a AMD XP 2800+ Dual Channel File Server. So I use a WHOLE computer dedicated to managing files and a whole nother computer for all the scratch work (ie: temp saved files both audio/video/digital art). networking them allows me to utilize the each machine for specific purposes. And I add the redundancy to my AMD with an external 300gig usb2. |
Let me know if you need to know the specifications 
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| Originally posted by Highmay well, i was reffering to the computers and not the ipods, but people think that the more shit on an mp3 player, the better...ipods are simplistic and to the point...there are probably others out now that might have more shit on it, but who cares...ipods get the job done and reduce the fuckupility to very low chances... |
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