RESOLVED: Extremly Slow Starting Up

edited September 2004 in Hardware
I have an AMD 64 newcastle 3200+, MSI k8n Neo Plat, 1gig ram, Sapphire ATI 9800Pro.
any its been running fine started up in about 25seconds. then yesterday i restarted it so that the F@H prog would run in the BG. (had it running for about a day in console) and it took literaly 3min to startup. so i thought it might be that causing it to slow down. so i disabled the service and restarted it. still slow. I deleted some of the other programs ive installed since i had it up (was up for about 3days). ran McAfee anti-virus after updating. it found nothing. Ran Kaspersky anti-virus after updating. still nothing. adaware found nothing. i restarted it again. this time i gave it 10-15min and it still wasnt done loading up progs in my task bar. I unplugged it from my school network. hit restart and it was back up in its normal start time. but the comp was still slow. and stayed slow for about 5min untill after startup time. then ran normaly. so i plugged it back in. ran fine for a day. then resetarted it again because it wasnt recognizing my TV tuner card. it started up fine even tho connected to the network. i installed the drivers for it(tv tuner) again. restarted it. and it was slow once again. as soon as installation finished i had to restart b/c it was going so slow. after that restart it was still slow, but i got a overheating warning (was saying 72C but i think that was just a driver problem b/c of my MSI k8n Neo plat mobo. 1 in every 100 startups it says its overheating) so i just turned it off. any ideas?
im thinking it might be a virus... could it of overheated running the F@H program for ~24h @ 55C? it wasnt slowing down when i was running that. just after i restarted.

btw, i do DL alot w/ bittorrent, Ares, WinMX, and about a weekago i got a prog off an FTP site. (but havnt unziped it yet)

Comments

  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    spyware? Check the spyware/virus forum for instructions on how to check. Memory, have you run memtest? Not sure where to start you out, I would check those 2 things first...
  • edited September 2004
    well now i cant really do anything on it. i did run adaware which gets rid of spyware. it started giving me a "some windows files have been replaced by unrecognizable files" so im trying to do a windows repair on it.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    have you tried bootvis?
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited September 2004
    csimon wrote:
    have you tried bootvis?

    I doubt that'd fix it. I'm thinking either his page file is corrupted or maybe something is very very badly fragmented. i.e. page file or mbr or master file table... something like that
  • edited September 2004
    Well I ended up just reformating. Since i have windows on its own partition I only have to re-install about 50% of the programs and re-enter keys for 25%. everything seems to be working fine now. oh wells :\ thanks for your help guys.
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