sounds like you have some hardware issues at hand...

is it the programs that you are loading into your computer?

if not, if you see your yellow light continuously flashing, it could be your memory not accepting the computer instructions as fast as it should be .. which is very rare...

either that, or it could be your hard drive not sending out instructions to the memory to be processed correctly. i say the safest solution is to get a new hard drive for safety sake,

No, I say the safest solution is to back up your shit to a CDR or to another computer right now, before it's too late. Then start experimenting.

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Originally posted by djkoolaide No, I say the safest solution is to back up your shit to a CDR or to another computer right now, before it's too late. Then start experimenting.

well i think that's probably too late to advise him, since he just reformated his drive, so everything he had before, well he lost unless he backed it up..

hehe yeah everything is gone but i backed up my docs on cdr before i reformated

that's all the good news though...


yes the yellow light flashes a lot, but not continuously... it does so in like 1 and a half second intervals... like i said there's a nasty lag, for example if i try to move the mouse around the screen it gets stuck every second

how can i be sure which piece of hardware is broken? i mean i don't want to buy a new h/d if it's actually the memory that's messed up

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Originally posted by stevebutabi alright well it seems my lag problem is worse than a virus... i reformated my computer and the problem hasn't gone away. is there any way of finding out what piece of hardware is busted? is it prolly the h/d, memory, etc? could it be dust?

U sure it formatted right?

ur harddisk could be partitioned!

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yeah i did it right... i'm gonna have to send it to sony for repair

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Originally posted by stevebutabi yeah i did it right... i'm gonna have to send it to sony for repair

yeah thats prob the best idea.

a while back my comp got fukd up wae viruses, so i formatted the harddisk and when i started it up again it still had 1 virus left on it

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Originally posted by stevebutabi alright well it seems my lag problem is worse than a virus... i reformated my computer and the problem hasn't gone away. is there any way of finding out what piece of hardware is busted? is it prolly the h/d, memory, etc? could it be dust?

start by posting your specs, then we'll see

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harddrive could be going (listen for dodgy HD noises) if sony can fix it under warranty ide let them do it cause u cud blag new components too - Bonus !

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I'm not sure what OS you have but in XP it would be a good idea to go Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Events Viewer and see if there are any yellow/red icon entries. If something is underperforming it can be there.

ok i checked out event viewer and there were some yellow icons...

scary thing is one of them says W32Time... could the w32 virus still be on my computer after reformating? sounds like what happened to you rooney.


i'd love to fix it w/o paying sony 500 bucks but i don't know if i can... if reformating can't fix it i'm in trouble