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Computer problems

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decipher

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Hey guys, I was having some pc troubles and I thought maybe some of you gurus could help. A couple months ago my maxtor died and I havent had enough money to get a new one till now. I had my pc overclocked but not too much (athlon 1.4 to 1.8). After installing the new hardrive I went to set up wIndows XP. The install process took literally 6 hours. By the time it was all finished and I finally got into windows I checked the device manager and it said my cpu was using 100% even though I had nothing running. Does this mean my proc is toasted? Or maybe something is not connected right on my mobo (a7n8x deluxe). Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
 
Well how would I check if DMA is enabled? Is that through bios? Whatever is using the most processing power cant be through windows because it has been doing this even before I installed it. Im not at home right now so I cant check it atm. But again what is dma and how would I find out the right setting for my pc?
 
Sorry for the double post but I would like to see your guys opinions on this. I was told that setting all the bios settings back to default and reformatting could fix the problem. They said you should never install a new os with your pc overclocked or altered. Would this be the solution?
 
Are you still using the dead drive?
I would pull it out of the machine, even if it is dead.

Also, I would make sure that overclock is stable, then back it off to default speeds, reinstall the OS, and then overclock back to the stable overclock speed.

What exactly is the problem with the computer? A long install time, or CPU at 100%?

Sounds fine to me, the CPU thing is most likely software.
 
I replaced the dead drive with the new hd, and set it as master. I did not change the clock settings when I formatted and started to install windows. When installing windows, the initial install took about 5 hours. When I finally rebooted and finished up the setup and got into windows, it was still going slow as hell. I checked the cpu usage and it was at 100% with nothing running on a fresh install of XP. Still think I should back off clock speeds and reformat and reinstal? Or is there a way to get around not reformatting?
 
I would definately reformat and re-install, and run at STOCK speeds...Sounds like something is really horked there.. I have installed XP on a P-II 266 with 128 MB ram, and it only took about an hour..
 
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