ashburnham
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There is a PC at my office that got very slow very quickly (if that makes sense). I will run through the state of events as I cannot work it out...
Now due to nothing being installed in between it working fine and the sudden change, this sounds like a hardware issue? The only thing is, I have tried lots of hardware/software tests but can't find a single problem. Here's what I've done thus far...
At this point I decided to do a Windows Repair Re-Installation using the original disk. This all seemed to go ok but then when it finished and rebooted, the Windows Please Wait... screen appeared and froze. Had to hard reset the PC which then booted up normally (not the Please Wait... screen this time) but said I needed to validate windows before I could logon. Said 'Yes' to this but nothing happened (blank screen but could move mouse), reset and said 'No' and takes me back to login screen.
Managed to solve this by going into 'Safe Mode', uninstalling IE8 of all things and then rebooting into normal mode (found in another thread). Still asked me to validate Windows but this time it allowed me to go through the process.
I am now back to where I started with a very slow PC. My only option appears to be another full format and re-installation of windows but I am reluctant to do this as the 3rd party that installs our work software will charge us again and who's to say this problem will not occur again. I am sure this is a hardware problem and the HDD Regenerator speed toward the end of the drive suggests maybe the HD???
Any help appreciated.
- Basic PC (P4 2.66GHz, 20GB HD, 1GB RAM) running Windows 2000 for 2+ years
- Formatted HD and then installed fresh, authentic version of Windows XP Pro SP3
- PC is then connected to internal server and appropriate software for our work purposes is installed by a 3rd party company inc. Office and McAfee SecurityCenter
- Nothing else is then done to the PC, it is simply used as a terminal on the work network
- Two weeks of bliss and super quick, clean computer then a sudden decrease in performance (logging onto windows has increased from about 2mins to about 10/15mins - opening Word has increased from 10secs to about 1/2mins)
Now due to nothing being installed in between it working fine and the sudden change, this sounds like a hardware issue? The only thing is, I have tried lots of hardware/software tests but can't find a single problem. Here's what I've done thus far...
- Run McAfee, AdAware, SpywareBlaster, Spybot and CCleaner Scans - no problems
- Run HDD Regenerator - no problems found but the 1st 90% of HD took 4hrs to scan and the last 10% of HD took 24hrs to scan?!
- Run memtest86+ for 3 hours - 4 passes - 0 errors
- Checked temperatures of CPU, RAM, HD, etc. - nothing out of the ordinary
- Performed Torture Test on Prime95 for 4 hours - no problems
At this point I decided to do a Windows Repair Re-Installation using the original disk. This all seemed to go ok but then when it finished and rebooted, the Windows Please Wait... screen appeared and froze. Had to hard reset the PC which then booted up normally (not the Please Wait... screen this time) but said I needed to validate windows before I could logon. Said 'Yes' to this but nothing happened (blank screen but could move mouse), reset and said 'No' and takes me back to login screen.
Managed to solve this by going into 'Safe Mode', uninstalling IE8 of all things and then rebooting into normal mode (found in another thread). Still asked me to validate Windows but this time it allowed me to go through the process.
I am now back to where I started with a very slow PC. My only option appears to be another full format and re-installation of windows but I am reluctant to do this as the 3rd party that installs our work software will charge us again and who's to say this problem will not occur again. I am sure this is a hardware problem and the HDD Regenerator speed toward the end of the drive suggests maybe the HD???
Any help appreciated.