Why does it hang so much??

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Clockworks

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I've fixed a friend's computer by re-installing windows everything because it was far too ruined. He upgraded his machine (added USB 2.0, DVD+/-RW, a new sound card, doubled the memory) and it now takes around 10 minutes to boot and 30% of the processor is already being used when it boots into windows. I would go to his house but I live a few hours away.

I narrowed it down to (in my opinion) BIOS (not likely), software, and drivers (most likely). I asked him to check to see if there were any driver conflicts but he said that there were none.

Opinions?
 
Standpoint said:
What kind of CPU is it? System specs. Windows XP?
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dont reinstall...reformat...ive had nothing but problems with windows always being rinstalled

just tell him to back up all his stuff and reformat
 
Mayhs said:
dont reinstall...reformat...ive had nothing but problems with windows always being rinstalled

just tell him to back up all his stuff and reformat
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My bad, should've been more in-depth. I re-formated the entire drive before re-installing Windows XP. The specs are:

1.5 GHz P4
512 RAM (133)
80 GB HD
Nvidia Vid Card (dunno what kind)

I don't anything else. After I re-installed windows, everything was working, perfectly. After he added stuff, bad stuff started happening.
 
clockworks said:
My bad, should've been more in-depth. I re-formated the entire drive before re-installing Windows XP. The specs are:

1.5 GHz P4
512 RAM (133)
80 GB HD
Nvidia Vid Card (dunno what kind)

I don't anything else. After I re-installed windows, everything was working, perfectly. After he added stuff, bad stuff started happening.
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what stuff did he add?
 
Sounds like some bloat/spy/mal-ware worked its way in after your hard work.

Was the DVD placed on the same ide cable as the hard drive? If so, that would bump you down to 33.
 
setscrew said:
Sounds like some bloat/spy/mal-ware worked its way in after your hard work.

Was the DVD placed on the same ide cable as the hard drive? If so, that would bump you down to 33.
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Could be spyware but I doubt it, he is running behind NOD32 and Spysweeper, he only uses it to check his e-mails and do reports on it. As far as the cable goes, I think he only replaced the old drive with the new one.

See original post for new stuff added or replaced.
 
definately check what setscrew said with the cable..you could always try a reinstall again..but did you ever install the chipset drivers and such?
 
But it only bumps things down to 33 speeds when accessing both drives at the same time, otherwise it's back to ATA100... I've built many computers with the HDD and the DVD drive on the same cable and haven't had any slowdown, so I doubt that's his problem. Windows taking forever to load + the 30% CPU usage seems like spyware to me... but it could also be a memory issue. Any way to get your friend to run Memtest?
 
Check to see if he has any hp printer software installed. That will slow the system down to a crawl.
 
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