martianX10
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Alright, I would REALLY appreciate some help on this:
Let's start from the beginning. About a week ago my friend started complaining that he couldn't get into some games. It started out with just 1, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, and then spread to include EVERY game on his system. He said when you opened it, within 6 seconds it would just lock up and freeze. So, he brought it over to my house and we took a look.
When he tried to open games now, not only did it freeze, but we got nice 'MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION' bsods. There was also an equally nice 'KERNEL_PAGE_ERROR' or (something to that effect). After much difficulty, tweaking, and frusteration, it just seemed to keep getting worse.
Now Windows wouldn't even boot. It would just go to the blue thingy and then restart, repeat. So we reinstalled windows. Now we could access the OS, and all the files, but not before a 10-20 minute boot time, and EXTREMELY slow computer performance.
SO, we just decided to transplant his HDD into my computer, back up the files, and reformat. Little did we know that 'Documents and Settings' folder locks itself. Anyway we finally got the files on my computer (after much turmoil) and reformatted the entire harddrive (his that is).
Formatted, Reinstalled Windows, normal boot time it seemed. Pretty nice performance. Everything was going great. Install his mobo drivers (Nvidia Nforce3 LanParty) and his Video drivers. Restart it, only to be followed by a 10 minute boot, and SUPER slow performance.
AND, to top things off, after we took his HDD out of my computer, now MINE is booting super slow (I used to get about 30 second XP boot time now its around 3 mins, WtF?!).
If ANYONE has ANY ideas on what could POSSIBLY be wrong or has ANY suggestions at all, PLEASE help. Sorry for the long read but if you are still with me now, thanks, again, it MUCH MUCH appreciated.
His system -
AMD Athlon 3200+
Seagate Barracuda 120gb HDD
512 / 1024 mb RAM
Lanparty Nvidia Nforce3
Radeon 9800 Pro
My System -
AMD Athlon 2600+
Western Digital 'Caviar' 120gb HDD
512MB Ram
Nvidia Nforce 2
Radeon 9600 Pro
-Thanks!
Let's start from the beginning. About a week ago my friend started complaining that he couldn't get into some games. It started out with just 1, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, and then spread to include EVERY game on his system. He said when you opened it, within 6 seconds it would just lock up and freeze. So, he brought it over to my house and we took a look.
When he tried to open games now, not only did it freeze, but we got nice 'MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION' bsods. There was also an equally nice 'KERNEL_PAGE_ERROR' or (something to that effect). After much difficulty, tweaking, and frusteration, it just seemed to keep getting worse.
Now Windows wouldn't even boot. It would just go to the blue thingy and then restart, repeat. So we reinstalled windows. Now we could access the OS, and all the files, but not before a 10-20 minute boot time, and EXTREMELY slow computer performance.
SO, we just decided to transplant his HDD into my computer, back up the files, and reformat. Little did we know that 'Documents and Settings' folder locks itself. Anyway we finally got the files on my computer (after much turmoil) and reformatted the entire harddrive (his that is).
Formatted, Reinstalled Windows, normal boot time it seemed. Pretty nice performance. Everything was going great. Install his mobo drivers (Nvidia Nforce3 LanParty) and his Video drivers. Restart it, only to be followed by a 10 minute boot, and SUPER slow performance.
AND, to top things off, after we took his HDD out of my computer, now MINE is booting super slow (I used to get about 30 second XP boot time now its around 3 mins, WtF?!).
If ANYONE has ANY ideas on what could POSSIBLY be wrong or has ANY suggestions at all, PLEASE help. Sorry for the long read but if you are still with me now, thanks, again, it MUCH MUCH appreciated.
His system -
AMD Athlon 3200+
Seagate Barracuda 120gb HDD
512 / 1024 mb RAM
Lanparty Nvidia Nforce3
Radeon 9800 Pro
My System -
AMD Athlon 2600+
Western Digital 'Caviar' 120gb HDD
512MB Ram
Nvidia Nforce 2
Radeon 9600 Pro
-Thanks!