Constant problems since first bootup

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shadowbreaker513

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I got myself a new processor, motherboard, video card, and PSU for my birthday about 3 weeks ago. Ever since I got it running, I've had ongoing problems that only seem to be getting worse. Every time the computer starts up, it keeps trying to run chkdsk. The internet is way slower than it should be. I usually play only one game - WoW - and I've had a constant slew of problems with it. I will frequently dip out of sync with the server for a second or two, requiring an alt+f4 exit or will be disconnected. Just as frequently the game will lock up and I will have to reboot my computer. After I got back from the ocean last week, I found that my microphone, which had worked perfectly fine for months, had stopped working. Vent and other programs still detect input, however windows does not register anything. Also earlier tonight after another WoW crash, I found that all the settings for my logitech setpoint drivers had been lost, and the settings wizard had the picture of the mouse in the wrong spot on my screen. I also got a message saying a file for one of the ui mods for WoW I have had been corrupted. Also, the computer seems to be using WAY more page file space than needed. While playing my hard drive is constantly chugging along and scrambling to keep up, I checked the usage a week or so back, and in heavily populated areas I was using 1.5-2GB of the page file space. I've also had WoW just do a hard crash back to the desktop several times, though those seem to have lessened recently. One final problem I have had is that in all media players, sometimes whenever I play a video, I will get nothing but the background behind the video, and the sound. Refreshing the page does nothing, unless I refresh it and bring up WoW while it is loading, and then alt+tab back into the video, and it seems to work fine. All spyware/virus checks are coming up clean, my drivers are updated, and my temps are fine. Anyone have any ideas what could be causing all these problems? At first they were minor and livable, but crashing 6-7 times in a 4 hour play session is getting rediculous.
 
Run Memtest overnight, run the diagnostic for whatever hard drive you have (Seagate Seatools, Maxtor Maxblast, WesternDigital DataLifeguard, etc) and then get back to us.
 
Hate to bump this since it died a week ago. I couldn't get the disc to burn right, so I went ahead and reformatted (Only about 3 weeks since my last one, and I still had all my backups) and reinstalled everything. Works fine except for alt+tabbing out of WoW being slightly sluggish.
 
I was looking around on the net about this problem and came up with this.

I understand you did a reformat but if you have this problem with Chkdsk again, I suggest you try this.

1. click on your start menu and open the run dialog.
2. type "cmd" and return (note: dont enter quotes)
3. Next type "fsutil dirty query e:"
4. If the return message indicates that the volume is dirty go to step 5
5. Next type "chkdsk e: /f /x"
6. After that finshes repeat step 3.
7. If it is no longer dirty then reboot and you should notice no more
ckdisk.
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