I was over my parents place yesterday and right before I was leaving my dad's Main PC (1Gz Athlon on an Asus A7V133 I think) didn't want to boot back up after some burning of CDs. He gave me a call tonight to give me an update and informed me that he got the computer back up and running after doing a system restore, but everything was happening at a slugs place...like the system taking 2 hours to boot back up and 5 minutes to open start button after clicking on it. Anyone else run into anything similar to this? I'm thinking it could be HHD Controller or something.
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Has he virus checked it?When you own your own business you only have to work half a day. You can do anything you want with the other twelve hours. -
L1 cache disabled in the bios?Comment
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Is the virus scanner scanning all files or just program files? Setting it to program files and turning off heuristics can sometimes make a world of difference and then again this could be an example of system restore reverting a driver or some setting that some subsequent program needed to run properly. Uncheck the MS Office startup stuff if he has it.Comment
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Hmm... in that case a virus check would probably take a week!!
I reckon it's the BIOS settings.P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
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And of course, Matrox Parhelia | My Matrox histroy: Mill-I, Mill-II, Mystique, G400, ParheliaComment
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Try disconnecting the CD burner. I once had the exact same symptoms with a failed burner.
HTH
T.FT.Comment
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Mayby the cpu fan has died?
Overheated CPU's has a tendency to crawl....If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."Comment
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If je's got two hard drives and one is duff (bad clusters) that will have the similar effect.Comment
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Faulty RAM? Who knows, happened to me.Titanium is the new bling!
(you heard from me first!)Comment
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His Hard Drive went on him...Western Digital is sending him a new one to replace it.Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?Comment
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did you test the cable as well?Comment
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WD strikes againOriginally posted by GT98
His Hard Drive went on him...Western Digital is sending him a new one to replace it.
If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."Comment
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I Did my fair share of RMA's on WD drives...but at least you can get replacements unlike IBMOriginally posted by Technoid
WD strikes again
Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?Comment
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