My computer sux!
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Ok so I should of given more details. I use AVG and the windows defender program and keep them up to date. I have kept installed program's to a minimum. I use Firefox. I have also done MSCONFIG and have nothing I don't need running. I've done disk cleanup and defragged a couple months ago might do it again. I'll try a couple other things and see what it gets me. I just really think I may have a stick of bad ram or something. And to RMH no I am definitely smarter then to believe a pop up window hahaha. I have cleared that stupid Virus Heat virus off of several computers its never easy.
If you had a bad DIMM, then you'd likely be seeing blue screens when windows couldn't retrieve something from memory that it thought should be in there.
You might try removing and reseating all of your PCI (, PCIe, and/or PCI-x) boards and
memory DIMMs then using that leaf blower to clean out the insides of that computer.
Do you know if your Intel Speed-Step is working correctly? Do you have it disabled in BIOS? Are you over-heating?
When you run perfmon, can you determine what your system's bottleneck is? You might also want to try running glint (http://www.scitechconcept.com/glint.html) to gain a real-time monitor of your system to see what bottleneck(s) you might be encountering.
FWIW and YMMV
Thanks
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Glad to hear your smarter than the average bear! (and I do believe you)! You may or may not be surprised at what I deal with from self proclaimed computer experts in my extended family.... OMFG!
If you had a bad DIMM, then you'd likely be seeing blue screens when windows couldn't retrieve something from memory that it thought should be in there.
You might try removing and reseating all of your PCI (, PCIe, and/or PCI-x) boards and
memory DIMMs then using that leaf blower to clean out the insides of that computer.
Do you know if your Intel Speed-Step is working correctly? Do you have it disabled in BIOS? Are you over-heating?
When you run perfmon, can you determine what your system's bottleneck is? You might also want to try running glint (http://www.scitechconcept.com/glint.html) to gain a real-time monitor of your system to see what bottleneck(s) you might be encountering.
FWIW and YMMV
Thanks
If you had a bad DIMM, then you'd likely be seeing blue screens when windows couldn't retrieve something from memory that it thought should be in there.
You might try removing and reseating all of your PCI (, PCIe, and/or PCI-x) boards and
memory DIMMs then using that leaf blower to clean out the insides of that computer.
Do you know if your Intel Speed-Step is working correctly? Do you have it disabled in BIOS? Are you over-heating?
When you run perfmon, can you determine what your system's bottleneck is? You might also want to try running glint (http://www.scitechconcept.com/glint.html) to gain a real-time monitor of your system to see what bottleneck(s) you might be encountering.
FWIW and YMMV
Thanks
One thing I do know is the Vista sidebar gadget that shows you cpu activity and ram usage shows 50% ram usage all the time even when the cpu says 0-5%. There was one thing Spy bot couldn't get so I am running it in safe mode now to see if it will get it now. I do not know anything about the speed step I'll take a look when I restart from safe mode.
What are the hard faults/sec in the memory portion of perfmon? It currently shows me using 37% in safe mode running firefox and spybot. Doesn't seem too much but maybe a bit high.
Any other tips?
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While I have no substantiative proof of this, it would appear that you have some sophisticated malware on that box since your monitoring tools don't show an issue (lots of malware is sophisticated enough to do this).
I would backup/save off everything you want to keep to an external source (even burn it to CD or DVD).
Wipe your existing partitions clean (reformat them at a low level), then re-install your operating system of choice.
Then one by one, add your applications and data until you encounter this same issue. Your last installation is the culprit. Repeat from reformatting your hard drive until the step prior to the latest install of malware.
This is your new base install checkpoint.
hope that helps.
Life can suck when you run windows.... Accept it and deal with it....
I would backup/save off everything you want to keep to an external source (even burn it to CD or DVD).
Wipe your existing partitions clean (reformat them at a low level), then re-install your operating system of choice.
Then one by one, add your applications and data until you encounter this same issue. Your last installation is the culprit. Repeat from reformatting your hard drive until the step prior to the latest install of malware.
This is your new base install checkpoint.
hope that helps.
Life can suck when you run windows.... Accept it and deal with it....
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[quote]What are the hard faults/sec in the memory portion of perfmon? It currently shows me using 37% in safe mode running firefox and spybot. Doesn't seem too much but maybe a bit high.[\quote]
hard faults are when your O/S needs to go to the physical harddisk to retrieve a page to load into memory.
37% in and of itself doesn't indicate squat.
hard faults are when your O/S needs to go to the physical harddisk to retrieve a page to load into memory.
37% in and of itself doesn't indicate squat.
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Well now I have it at 40% just running AIM and firefox. I think its a bit better. I'll give it a few days before trying a reinstall. I really need to switch to my larger hard disk though. I know thats part of the reason for it to be slow cuz I only have 5gb free.
What are the hard faults/sec in the memory portion of perfmon? It currently shows me using 37% in safe mode running firefox and spybot. Doesn't seem too much but maybe a bit high.[\quote]
hard faults are when your O/S needs to go to the physical harddisk to retrieve a page to load into memory.
37% in and of itself doesn't indicate squat.
hard faults are when your O/S needs to go to the physical harddisk to retrieve a page to load into memory.
37% in and of itself doesn't indicate squat.
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yes, get that bigger hard drive installed.....also, disable indexing, and under no circumstances should you compress disk to save space....lol
but yeah dude, just follow rmh's advice....takes a while, BUT if it solves your problems.....it's well worth it
keep us all informed
but yeah dude, just follow rmh's advice....takes a while, BUT if it solves your problems.....it's well worth it
keep us all informed
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i second the reboot. before reformatting and reinstalling, i would just back up what ever you want and try a clean install using the windows disk and manufacturers driver disks. im assuming you have vista (to lazy to go back and look) but i just did a clean install of vista last sunday and i got everything done in less than three hours. even reinsatlled all applications and devices
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