bad luck with hardware...i think windows might be stalking me

[esc]

all my pcs have been bad internet and desktop surfers...from my p2-400->athlon tbird 1.1->xp1700+. i don't know what's happening but i am a victim to frequent slowdowns where it takes at least a minute or two for my pc to execute a command while i'm on the desktop, be it surfing the net, downloading files or just browsing folders. it happens at random during various system tasks. i really can use some help on why this is happening. the problem on my xp1700+ is very stupid since it is already supposed to be fast.

system specs:
xp1700+
esc k7vta3 rev2 (KT266A)
pqi 256mb ddr sdram (not generic, uses hynix chips i think)
ati radeon 8500 oem 64mb ddr
seagate barracuda 40GB (5GB left but has nothing to do with the sloppy performance because i already felt it when this system was still brand new)
sb audigy DE 5.1

 

[Dreadogg]

do you have the same software on each and if so what is it? (only the one's that start up automaticly)

 

[esc]

nope. they all have different software that boots up during startup. with the xp1700+ i only have the ati system tray icon, audigy system tray icon and pc-cillin2000. i had a major slowdown today when i opened disk cleanup and it got stuck while scanning the HD (this one i think has something to do with the hd). the other annoying thing is the slow performance in accessing folders of any kind, this was clearly evident from the start. i think i am just cursed with bad combinations in pc parts.

 

[Adul]

what OS are you using. And did you do clean install of the OS? What do you use PC chillin for?

 

[esc]

clean install of windows xp by local store. i use pc-cillin for anti-virus.

 

[Adul]

strange. Is the PC chillian okto work with windows XP? Just a thought.

Might want to try it without pc chillian running to see. Hard to say what the issue is. Could be hardware conflicts or software.