dell precision 650 issue

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RayDaddy

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Hi I have a Dell precision 650 here. It has 2 3.06 P4 "b" chips in it and 2 gigs 0f pc2100 in it. The machine ran fine until one day I came in and it had the blue screen of death on it. Went to try to trouble shoot out why thais happened and learned that the hard drive file system had been messed up for the drive did not post until after i reformatted it.

This is the problem. ever since it dropped out it runs soooooooo slow. takes like 2 days to load windows and the things seems like it is stuck in the mud. it works and everything but even on a new fresh load it runs like it had a 300 mhz processor in it.

any body got any idea why this machine works but is soo sooo sooooo slow now allof the sudden. does it on ide and scsi, never reboots so my guess is it is not memory related.

seems like a board thing but I cannot find it.

what would cause an otherwise working system just to drop out like that and then come back and like %20 the speed of before but still work?
 
My guess is that drive is dying. Do you have another drive you could test with? To help rule out the RAM, you could DL, burn, and run memtest overnight. To rule out the CPUs, run Orthos Small FFTs test for a few hours.
 
memtest sounds like a good idea but i really doubt it is the ram. I have tried other drives, drivers, stipes on scsi, and even bypassing to ide and still run alot sloer than it should. seems like it is not calling for the hard drive that much. most times when you hit the drive it runs solid until the data transfer is complete. this is more like a surge, pause, surge, pause, never a steady flow of data. machine never reboots or hangs. it will take windows and run, but it runs like a machine from the 300mhz days. this thing is slow, like molasses slow, 75% slower than is should be. let's put it that way. something to do with the calling for data from the drives i think.

let me ask you this is a CPU failed or had insufficient power it would cause an error message wouldn't it? the thing just is not calling for the data from the drive that much i believe but otherwise works normally.
 
When you reformatted did you do a full format or a quick format? If you did a quick format you need to check the drive for errors by running chkdsk /r.
 
yeah but would that cause it to run this slow? I have done full and quick formats. installed the drivers and such and nothing seems to help. this thing just does not seem to want to run smooth like it should. it is like it stops and starts with long pauses in between. did it on scsi and ide. it baffles me. I can't find the issue.
 
Ran checkdisk no issues, reformatted no change.

ok so far the memory scored super low but the processors scored unbelievably low. like in the hundreds. ok, so what would cause the processors and memory to run like they are not there bascially? seems like they both post and run but run at like 10% what they should. anyone have any idea what can cause this?


Memory Bandwidth 86??? (should be like 3000+)

Processor score 284????? (should be in the 10,000-15,000 range)
 
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