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| N|te-L|fe |
sorry for bugging yall with that but I'm really desperate to fix my damn cpu who's been acting up quite often lately.
I've been using my computer for about 2 and a half years now and never did any format on it.. I was always delaying this operation but I knew I was seriously due for it.. well, what was waiting to happen happened 2 days ago.. my i explorer crash and started giving me an error message about a .dll file missing each time I would try to use it.. so I couldnt go on the net, or load any file or folder that required explorer to work.. I tried debugging it at the best of my knowledge but things just got worse.. at the end, my cpu screen was totally freakin out displaying 4 bit colours with a 460X680 resolution
luckily I had made a backup of my mopst improtant files on my other HD, so I formatted (only drive C) and re-installed Windows
This is where things got ugly..: Even after re-installing all the little thingies like video drivers and stuff (used the same as before), everything was incredibly slow.. like simple jpegs would take about 4 secondes just to show up, games are playable but graphics are extremely scattered, and well basically everything is much slowed.. I launched the performance analyser and when I open a pic the CPU usage goes right to 100%..
I dont know if I missed something or what but to me it doesnt make sense that an empty drive would go slower then a full one.. I reformatted with a full-sized partition in NTFS, wich is the same config as my second drive..
I went to PcPitStop.com and they tell me everything is fine
Any hints anyone? :S I'm kindda really bugged here
Thanks in advance :conf: |
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| yujie__ |
| did u install uptodate drivers? default windows drivers are usuall slow 1st untill u install the hardware drivers. make sure u have DMA check for your Harddrives |
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| N|te-L|fe |
If your talking about Windows auto-updates, yes I did them all..
the only other driver I updated is my video card's and I use the same as before.. |
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| yujie__ |
| i meant teh chipset drivers which helps harddrive and others stuff communicate better. whatsr you mobo and specs |
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| mndeg |
| how much do you ram and how much of it is used |
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| Swamper |
Things to check:
- Possible bad sectors on your HD
- If your Video Card is on-board it would be sharing your available memory - go to BIOS and make sure default Video shadowing/etc settings are in place
- Look for a BIOS upgrade
- Check in Device Manager to make sure there is no yellow alert with your HD, I'm guessing you're using Win2k/XP (NTFS), otherwise if it was 98 check in Control Panel->System->Performance (i think) and it would mention if the drive is running in compatibility mode (BAD if so) |
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| N|te-L|fe |
I'll have to check on those tonight, I'm at work right now..
I have a P3 1000MHZ with 512mg/RAM on a GeForce 4 Ti4200
2 HD main 20 GB slave 80gB and I only formatted the first one
Swamper I already checked the device manager and found no alert ,thanks for the other tips again I'll have to have a look tonight |
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| mndeg |
i wouldnt advise installing windows + other apps on a 20 gig hard drive, you can keep windows on one and apps on others
and make sure your cpu is running at its normal clock rate in bios |
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| caddyshack |
| quote: | Originally posted by N|te-L|fe
sorry for bugging yall with that but I'm really desperate to fix my damn cpu who's been acting up quite often lately.
I've been using my computer for about 2 and a half years now and never did any format on it.. I was always delaying this operation but I knew I was seriously due for it.. well, what was waiting to happen happened 2 days ago.. my i explorer crash and started giving me an error message about a .dll file missing each time I would try to use it.. so I couldnt go on the net, or load any file or folder that required explorer to work.. I tried debugging it at the best of my knowledge but things just got worse.. at the end, my cpu screen was totally freakin out displaying 4 bit colours with a 460X680 resolution
luckily I had made a backup of my mopst improtant files on my other HD, so I formatted (only drive C) and re-installed Windows
This is where things got ugly..: Even after re-installing all the little thingies like video drivers and stuff (used the same as before), everything was incredibly slow.. like simple jpegs would take about 4 secondes just to show up, games are playable but graphics are extremely scattered, and well basically everything is much slowed.. I launched the performance analyser and when I open a pic the CPU usage goes right to 100%..
I dont know if I missed something or what but to me it doesnt make sense that an empty drive would go slower then a full one.. I reformatted with a full-sized partition in NTFS, wich is the same config as my second drive..
I went to PcPitStop.com and they tell me everything is fine
Any hints anyone? :S I'm kindda really bugged here
Thanks in advance :conf: |
i have the same damn problem. even the 100% cpu usage. maybe its a virus?? |
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| KilldaDJ |
do a full format on ur C: again, format it into FAT32
plonk windows back on, use either 2000/98...xp is stable but it chews at ur ram...
uh also, if ur on 2000/xp
go into dos now and do a quick CHKDSK to see if u got bad sectors on ur HD etc... |
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| N|te-L|fe |
| quote: | Originally posted by KilldaDJ
do a full format on ur C: again, format it into FAT32
plonk windows back on, use either 2000/98...xp is stable but it chews at ur ram...
uh also, if ur on 2000/xp
go into dos now and do a quick CHKDSK to see if u got bad sectors on ur HD etc... |
Yeah I tought of doing that.. but XP worked fine before with NTFS.. I dint see why logically it would be slower.. specially with an empty drive.. |
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| Ninjapimp |
| Is your CPU usage at 100% while idle? Check what process is chewing up all you memory at idle. |
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