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My home PC is acting up. It's running super slow! No blue screens of death (yet), and I ran scans for malware and viruses. All is clean there.
It will lock up and I'll have to power it off forcibly. It has reboot itself once since this started too. The side vents were clogged up pretty good with dust, and I did take the cover off the case and blew all the dust out of it.
I'm guessing the mobo is going out, but not sure. Any ideas?
Needs more information. (model of machine)
You may want to run an integrity check on your hard drive
You can run a defrag and a check disk
Type this in the run line (Start > Run)
"chkdsk c: /f /x /r" (Press "Y" when prompted)
"cleanmgr" (Select all options)
"defrag c: -f -v"
(reboot)
Run defrag again
(reboot)
Get rid of Vista and install Windows 7.....fixed the same problem for me.
Discalimer: I'm not a tech guy so listening to me may be hazardous to your computer's health.
It's a home-made PC. AMD Phenom 9600 on an ASUS mobo, running XP Pro.
I did run a defrag this morning and it ran OK. I didn't run a chkdsk, but will now.
Buy a Mac... they always work...
http://i.imgur.com/yDlM5.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave04
My guess is hardware failing. Video card, memory, powersupply, especially with the dust you're describing.
chkdsk ran clean.
The BIOS shows 4GB of memory installed and usable, and it posts 4GB when booting. When it's booting up and going thru the BIOS, it's stays on 'USB ports initializing' for 20-30 seconds. Not sure if that's normal or not.
It could be the video card....I think I have an old one I can swap in for a test.
Are you running McAfee by any chance. They messed up good yesterday morning. Do a goole search for it.
AVG for security. Trying my old video card now.
Have you tried Safe Mode to see if it runs faster?
Is HD keep spinning? Have install or download anything lately. Are you running Fire Fox? I notice Fire Fox lately been getting update all the time and slowing everything down. I have since change the setting to NO update w/o me knowing it.
Same problem with my old video card. Safe mode runs slow. HD is spinning. I've tried IE, Firefox and Chrome for a browser. Chrome seems to work the best, but it will still freeze up (or the machine will) at some point. It has to be hardware.
How do you troubleshoot a bad mobo?
Can you go back to an earlier System Restore Point? Maybe back before the system slowed down?
Could also be failing RAM. You can run MemTest86 to check for memory errors and bad modules.
Download it here: >> http://www.memtest.org/#downiso <<
How is airflow? If the CPU gets too hot it can cause stuttering and freezing.
Check the Event Viewer to see if you have errors showing up in the system log.
this is so true but only with desktops, win laptops smoke macsQuote:
Originally Posted by goofygrin
Memory tested good with Memtest. Nothing unusual in the Event Viewer.
I'm thinking mobo, CPU or power supply.
I would find a hard drive test.
When it ran CHKDSK at boot up. Did you see if it moved any files around or had files in bad sectors?
CHKDSK ran without a hitch...all 5 pieces of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MiataMike
Have you tried shutting off the pron?