System Oddities, input would be great.

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Ill give my pc specs so you can see where Im coming from.

Asus A8n-e (latest bios and drivers)
SD 3700+ (939)
2x 512mb ddr 400 (corsair vs)
ati x800xl
power color theater 550 pro tv card
antec true power 2 550w
chaintec av-710 sound card
nec 3520 dvd burner
both the chipset and cpu have better than stock cooling both with low temps
3 Hard drive
80gb sata (has the OS on it)
160gb Ide (has games and this is where my tv card records too)
200gb Ide (Movies, and random files, back up stuff)


So now to my problem, I think my pc is having some sort of hard drive problem, like when I start MCE and try to watch tv it takes forever to load or if I watch my recordings it can take forever. When I play WoW, my addons slow down my system lots, if I remove them wow runs fine. Auctioneer records all the auctions and stores there info, which means lots of harddrive accessing, this addon can really lag wow up. Also my board will not overclock past 230fsb (I have tried everything to fix this, I mean everything but this is not the problem im here for) which makes me thing that my board has some kind of problem and is slowing things down. Its been perfectly stable, but trying to play just mp3's it seems like it takes longer for wmp to open than it should, along with outlook and other applications. Running wow and firefox and WMP can be a pain, I know I dont have duel core processor but it shouldnt lag to bad running these 3 but sometimes it does

Is there a program I can use to see if there is something up with how my mobo accesses the hard drives?
 
Sorry, haven't heard of any program like that.

But a few questions:

- When was the last time you reinstalled Windows MCE?
- Have you gone through MSCONFIG and prune programs that are loaded at bootup?
- Have you ran Adware, Spyware or Anti-Virus scanners?
- Ctrl-Alt-Del and see how many processes there are? See any program running that you could live without?

Just a few basic questions.
 
Reinstalled MCE about 1 month ago, both spybot and adaware show nothing. I defragment usually 1 every 2 days. Only things that load on start with msconfig, is msn messenger, transcode360, the ati stuff, and avg free (antivirus). heres a pic of my processes. Dont worry wow isnt running all the time, it just was when I took this screen shot. Why theres 2 and 3 of stuff I wouldnt know.

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Why is a sql server running on your PC? Or is that part of MCE?

I don't have too much experience with MCE but it looks like MCE is running a lot of programs in the background, like the sqlserver, MCRD Device Service, and a few others.

Oh one more thing: download and run hijackthis!

Save a log file but don't close the program just yet. Copy and paste the log file at this site: www.hijackthis.de The site will tell you which programs are bad and which are good. Then you can remove them.
 
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