AAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, need help!!!

[MeanMeosh]

ok, here's the thing.

i have a Dell Dimension 4100 (Dont ask, parents wouldnt finance a comp unless i bought it premade... which is why i bought one from dell and build another one myself) P3 866 on an Intel D815EEA mobo with 384 megs of RAM, 20 Gig Maxtor, 46 gig IBM, and a 60 gig Western Digital. Its running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Version 5.0.2195. Things have been working great so far. I reformatted the 20 gig (which is my primary drive) and reinstalled Win2K at the beginning of the summer. Suddenly, all of a sudden now, I have been experiencing slowdowns on programs i used to be able to run fine (Photoshop, etc.) I have no idea why. Now to add on to all of that, suddenly, for no apparant reason, the computer has been beeping randomly when i run something (as if its posting...). this is happened twice yesterday and once so far today. does anyone know what the hell is going on :-(

:|damnit, its so annoying when you dont know what the fvck is going on...:|

does anyone have any suggestions as to why this is happening? please, please, please, help...

 

[MeanMeosh]

oh yea, nothing had been going wrong so far, i'm just wondering if i need to watch out for something...

 

[Danlz]

Two things (or more) can cause the beep: overtemp or fan rpm dropping momentarily out of spec. Take a look in the bios to see the envelope settings and measured (actual) values the next time the beep starts.

 

[MeanMeosh]

ok, thanx, i shall do that.

 

[Kelvrick]

When you reformated the drive, is it still in FAT32 or is it in NTFS? Was it NTFS and now in FAT32? Whats the deal? Maybe you just need to change that and the slowdowns will be gone. Check your comp for viruses or any programs you don't remember installing. Maybe thats just eating up all your memory.

I can't help you with the beeping. I'm sleepy and I gotta get up early tomrrow.

 

[frizzlefry]

Definitely check for viruses. Also if you are running NTFS, you may want to defrag. But the beeping sounds like it's a heat or power problem. Are you running any temp/mobo programs that monitor voltages and temps?

 

[SinNisTeR]

did you install ALL your drivers? the slow part sounds like your drive isnt running at "ata-xxx" maybe at pio4 or sumthing to that sort. install the mobo drivers.

 

[MeanMeosh]

<<Two things (or more) can cause the beep: overtemp or fan rpm dropping momentarily out of spec. Take a look in the bios to see the envelope settings and measured (actual) values the next time the beep starts.>>

k, i went into the bios and did not see the envelope settings anywhere (could it be cause this is a dell?)

<<When you reformated the drive, is it still in FAT32 or is it in NTFS? Was it NTFS and now in FAT32? Whats the deal? Maybe you just need to change that and the slowdowns will be gone. Check your comp for viruses or any programs you don't remember installing. Maybe thats just eating up all your memory.>>

It has and always been FAT32. If nothing works, i'm gonna reformat the my primary drive and freshly install win2k pro. ran a virus scan last night and it didnt detech anything.

<<Definitely check for viruses. Also if you are running NTFS, you may want to defrag. But the beeping sounds like it's a heat or power problem. Are you running any temp/mobo programs that monitor voltages and temps? >>

unfortunately, no, i dont have any programs that movitors voltages and temps. however, the mention of voltages reminded me that both times when it beeped, there was a fierce thunderstorm raging outside and it could have been a huge spike. (i'm running off a surge protector, it shouldnt have gone through if that was the case...)

<<did you install ALL your drivers? the slow part sounds like your drive isnt running at "ata-xxx" maybe at pio4 or sumthing to that sort. install the mobo drivers.>>

i'm running my primary off my mobo IDE. the other two drives are running off a primary ata/100 card. however, these two drives are running fine. the slowdowns are caused only when i'm running programs. so, i'll check the ide cable and change it from ide 1 to ide 2 and see if that does any good. i'll also reinstall the mobo and ata/100 card drivers and see if that does any good.

thanks for all the suggestions, more are welcome