My system is being lethargic

panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
edited March 2004 in Hardware
Barton 2500
Nf7-S 2.0 Bios 21
512 MB PC3500 HyperX RAM
Win XP Pro

Lately my computer has been acting lethargic. When I load up some websites (including SM) my computer freezes for a moment.

I've been playing some older games and they take forever to load.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

Comments

  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited March 2004
    try control alt deleat then check performance

    see if somthing is eating up ram or peaging the CPU at 100%
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited March 2004
    also did you install anything just before this started happing?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    you rebooted lately, or are you one of these people that has an irrational fear of POST screens? ;):D
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited March 2004
    I fear the POST screen.;)

    Anyway have you scanned for spyware? Defragged? Disk cleanup?
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited March 2004
    gibbonsl wrote:
    also did you install anything just before this started happing?

    I don't remember installing anything before this happened.

    I've had this problem for weeks now through multiple reboots.

    I'm just pissed because I want to play my favorite game (Fleet Command, 3 years old) and I get big delays between the different loading screens. Whereas before I got almost no delay.
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited March 2004
    defraged

    run adaware, anti virus scane

    make sure the HD is set to DMA

    see if something eating up your memory(task manager)

    check you temps(overheating?)
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2004
    Everything gibbonsl said.

    Plus: Run HijackThis and post your log here.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    Since prime doesn't appear to be around at the moment, I'll say it for him.

    You run memtest yet? :nudge::D
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited March 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    Since prime doesn't appear to be around at the moment, I'll say it for him.

    You run memtest yet? :nudge::D

    The last time I tried to run memtest it ruined my computer.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    what the hell? I've gotta hear this. What happened?
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited March 2004
    I'll try defragging and see if that helps. Already went through the spyware cleanup, hijack this and all that stuff. Uninstalled programs I don't use.
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited March 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    what the hell? I've gotta hear this. What happened?

    I did as it instructed, made a system disk, put the program on there, let the system boot, ran the test.

    Eventually it sort of froze. I left it alone for an hour and came back, still frozen. So I shutoff my machine.

    Turned it back on windows wouldn't load. I spent two days trying to fix it, and I finally got windows to load up in safe mode, but most of the data on my hard disk was otherwise corrupted. System ruined. Reformat and reinstalled after that.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    Very strange.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2004
    Run it with the HD's disconnected.
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited March 2004
    That's REALLY wierd... musta been some sorta bug with memtest.

    Anyways, do what prof. said and disconnect the HDDs first.
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited March 2004
    Ok I defragged, it's moving a little smoother now but I still get some long delays when I load some programs.

    I tried running memtest again. I booted my system with the floppy I made with the memtest batch file, and it showed:

    1000
    1000
    1000
    1000
    1000
    1000
    1000
    1000
    1000
    1000
    1000
    1000....


    and it kept going and going and going...I left it alone for an hour. Came back, still

    1000
    1000
    1000
    1000
    1000...

    Is this how memtest is supposed to work?

    Here is my hijack this log

    Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
    Scan saved at 7:34:13 PM, on 3/28/2004
    Platform: Windows XP SP2, v.2096 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
    MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2096)

    Running processes:
    C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
    C:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\RunDll32.exe
    C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_03\bin\jusched.exe
    C:\program files\steam\steam.exe
    C:\Program Files\InterVideo\Common\Bin\WinCinemaMgr.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscntfy.exe
    C:\Program Files\MYIE2\MYIE.exe
    C:\Torrents\HijackThis.exe

    O2 - BHO: (no name) - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
    O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
    O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msdxm.ocx
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SoundFusion] RunDll32 hercplgs.cpl,BootEntryPoint
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_03\bin\jusched.exe
    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Steam] "c:\program files\steam\steam.exe" -silent
    O4 - Global Startup: InterVideo WinCinema Manager.lnk = C:\Program Files\InterVideo\Common\Bin\WinCinemaMgr.exe
    O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console (HKLM)
    O9 - Extra button: AIM (HKLM)
    O9 - Extra button: Messenger (HKLM)
    O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger (HKLM)
    O16 - DPF: {01CA75F1-054B-4A63-9221-C6926369EC52} (HS_live Control) - http://install.homestead.com/~site/InstallFiles/SIFiles/lpxlive/HS_live.cab
    O16 - DPF: {02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B} (QuickTime Object) - http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab
    O16 - DPF: {11260943-421B-11D0-8EAC-0000C07D88CF} (iPIX ActiveX Control) - http://www.ipix-eu.com/viewers/ipixx.cab
    O16 - DPF: {30528230-99F7-4BB4-88D8-FA1D4F56A2AB} (YInstStarter Class) - http://download.yahoo.com/dl/installs/yinst0309.cab
    O16 - DPF: {62475759-9E84-458E-A1AB-5D2C442ADFDE} - http://a1540.g.akamai.net/7/1540/52/20030530/qtinstall.info.apple.com/abarth/us/win/QuickTimeInstaller.exe
    O16 - DPF: {74D05D43-3236-11D4-BDCD-00C04F9A3B61} (HouseCall Control) - http://a840.g.akamai.net/7/840/537/2003120501/housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/xscan53.cab
    O16 - DPF: {9F1C11AA-197B-4942-BA54-47A8489BB47F} - http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/CAB/x86/unicode/iuctl.CAB?37971.4777314815
    O16 - DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} (Shockwave Flash Object) - http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2004
    jusched.exe
    &
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_03\bin\jusched.exe
     checks the Sun site to see if newer Java versions are available. Not harmful, but wastes resources.

    wscntfy.exe I dunno, but I'll keep looking.

    ..tp://a1540.g.akamai.net/7/1540/52...meInstaller.exe[/url] could be used to sneak something past a web filter.

    C:\WINDOWS\system32\RunDll32.exe usually has what it loads after it. The fact that yours is blank might indicate a problem.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    A European site, WinFuture.com, multilingual posting of threads warning wrote:
    wscntfy.exe: Dürft wohl dass neue Security center vom Sp2 sein. Jupp hat glatt recht
    Windows Security Center Notification App

    That is their way of essentially saying: This is a new Microsoft thing for the new security center. This is how Microsft pushes critical security notifies from it to you. It is part of SP2.

    He also implied he liked the new security center-- A LOT. It is here:

    http://www.microsoft.com/security/

    Depending on whether you want SP2's security notification system left intact, I would consider leaving it in place until at least Longhorn's release.

    Translater's note: I rephrased this for colloquial understanding over here in US, left the other for folks in Scandinavia and Germany who might surf here.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2004
    Thanks, Ageek. That was the only link I found, but I didn't know what to make of it. Your translation beats hell out of Google's.

    I took German in 1st & 2nd grade. Shoulda kept up with it.

    Ich bin dumm :buck:;D
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited March 2004
    Ok but what about my memtest thing? Is that is what is supposed to happen? 1000 over and over again?
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2004
    Are you running Memtest86? There are a lot of similarly named programs out there. Memtest86 will show the following in the upper right-hand corner:

    Pass %
    Test %
    Test #
    Testing (memory range)
    Pattern

    It will have a column in the lower half of the screen showing errors found.

    I just ran it on my main comp to be sure I had it right. :wave:
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