• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Wierd Computer Problem..anyone wanna help?

J

jdub12

Limp Gawd
Joined
Apr 23, 2003
Messages
250
So I come home and my computers are rebooted due to brown outs in my neighborhood. Well I boot them up and my 3.06 P4 is is taking like literally 5 mins to get to the login screen. Im like ok, so i reboot and even in the login screen its soo laggy. I doesnt even highlight the buttons as i go over them..its very delayed like by 30 seconds. So anyways on reboot, memory test is fine, cpu speed is ok and then again..its takes another 5 mins.

So I wait it out, get into windows and its like another 10 mins to load everything. Literally 10 mins. So i click start, wait about 30 seconds for the menu to show up and then run. I msconfig and remove everything in the startup. I reboot....same thing. I wait it out and just get it going again. From my other computer on the network..i map the slow computers HDD and run a virus scan on it. No virus's show up, and my definitions are up to date. Well the hardware device manager shows everything is fine and also the resource manager is showing everything normal. However, upon everything I do, the CPU throttling will spike to 100% load. Even when I click on a button or something so simple where it shouldnt load the processor 100%. That seems fishy to me. This is so wack...anyone have any ideas? The processor is showing up at 3.06, the memory is there, everything seems ok with hardware, and nothing is changed from Win XP Pro since the last time I used it. All windows updates were installed before the brown out reboot and before it started choking up....its also hooked to a surge protector. If anyone has any clues, let me know! Thanks guys!
 
have you tried a chkdsk and or run a defrag, I would also test out your hd, to see if you picked up any problems from the brown out. Brown outs can really do some damage. Another Good reason to run a good UPS.
 
I would have to say from a technical standpoint - you're fuxored!! :eek:

Just like he said above, did you try safe mode and did it have the same problems?
 
It sounds like either your Windows installation or your registry got FUBAR'd during the brownout. If you have a recent backup of the registry I would try restoring with that. If you are running WinXP you may try to use System Restore to restore the system from a recent backup.

Actually, before you try and do that, look in Device Manager to see if your drives are running in PIO mode. If so, change them back to DMA mode. PIO mode will cause problems like this. I fixed a computer here at work a couple of weeks back that had that problem (among a few others). Took forever to load Windows and logon. Then it would take forever to get anywhere or to get anything to work. This was on a PIII 700 also.

If it won't allow you to change back to DMA mode, uninstall the IDE controller from Device Manager and reboot. Then go into the BIOS to make sure DMA mode is selected for the drives there. Exit BIOS and let Windows load. Windows should automatically re-install the IDE controller. Check to make sure the drives are running in DMA mode and if needed, reboot.

At this time, I can't think of anything else to fix it if none of those work. At that point I would bust out the Windows CD, format and reinstall the OS.
 
Could be a virus that you don't know about, but i agree if u can do a defrag than do one. Although I don't think that is going to solve your problems. I think it is the programs that u have installed, something is clogging up your memory.

Caliche
 
I agree with everyones suggestions above

If windows system restore (not format/reinstall) doesn't fix your computer, you can always try this.

Windows itself probably took some damage when your computer powered down all of a sudden. Get to a DOS prompt and type SFC /SCANNOW

that will scan every single critical windows file and make sure that they are not corrupt. If it finds any it will replace them with a fresh copy from your windows cd so have it handy.
 
nope, safemode is a slug too. takes forever to load all of the files during startup and booting into windows is like a 5 minute process. This is so wierd. Ill try all of your guys' advice tonight, and let you know. If you can think of anything else, please help. Thanks again.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top