computer boots up fine, then gets slower and slower and slower.........

[Jhill]

All of a sudden my computer starts getting slower by the second. I have to reboot every 10 minutes or so because it freezes. I ran ad-aware and got nothing. Zone alarm is picking up nothing. My antivirus isn't picking up anything.

How can I trouble-shoot this? Could it be a hardware problem? I just starting one day out of nowhere.

Thanks for any help

 

[Frito]

Chances are your CPU fan is dead and the CPU clocking itself down to keep from burning up.

Check it out.

 

[Springdalewater]

have you done a system clean up an defrag? make sure your fans are working probably as well.

 

[Jhill]

I checked the fans and they are working. I sprayed it out with canned air and now It just keep rebooting when I strat it up. It will work in safe mode but when i boot up normally it just keeps restarting.

Maybe a virus?

Thanks for any more help

BTW I am running xp pro

 

[nanaki333]

you running intel or amd? check your chipset drivers, make sure they're all up to date. don't know if that'll have any effect or not. there's always an xp repair to see if it's OS related. <3 repair. don't have to reinstall all your appz when you're done. god bless!

 

[Lmronby]

Check your task manager and make sure your CPU or RAM isn't pegged. If it is you might still have some Spyware that Adaware didn't catch. Computer Cops has a link to download Hijack this. You can post the results on their forums and they can help clean ALL the sneaky spy crap that sneaks in. 2 cents.

 

[Frito]

Originally posted by: Jhill
I checked the fans and they are working. I sprayed it out with canned air and now It just keep rebooting when I strat it up. It will work in safe mode but when i boot up normally it just keeps restarting.

Maybe a virus?

Thanks for any more help

BTW I am running xp pro

Man things aren't going good for you.

First things first, Is the CPU speed getting detected properly? Any BIOS or POST errors when you first turn it on?

Next, check your memory. Go download the app and create a boot floppy from http://www.memtest86.com/

Let it run for 20 minutes or so and see if it comes up with any errors.

After that, it has to be some bizarre driver issue.


You can always try running in a less 'optimized' state. Go into your BIOS and turn off BIOS and Video caching. That sometimes helps stability.

 

[bobt001]

Oh, boy!

You need more than just an Anti-Virus, altough you need to make sure it is updated almost to the second any more!

Download, install and update Ad-Aware and Spybot Search&amp;Destroy. Both! Do not scan yet. It is important that they are fully and recently updated.

Boot into safe-mode and run each (they can run together just fine). Delete anything each one says to. You should see improvement at the next reboot. Also, run your fully updated anti-virus scan in safe-mode as well.

Make sure you didn't install ZoneAlarm version 5.x as it is known to have a few 'difficulties'. If you did, go back one version (4.something) and wait until ZoneLabs has this dilemma fixed.

Hope this helps,

Bob Tyler...
Tyler Systems, LLC

 

[Mem]

If it was my PC,I would have Spybot,Ad-aware,Spywareblaster installed with my anti-virus software,running Memtest86 like Frito posted would check the ram and is a good idea,defrag hard drive,and last a good registry cleaner might improve things,but I only recommend that to people that are comfortable with messing around with the registry.

 

[Slikkster]

I'd boot up in safe mode, and recreate your pagefile. It might be corrupted. Here's how:

Click Start.

Right-click My Computer.

Click Properties.

On the Advanced tab, in the Performance section, click Settings.

In the Virtual Memory section, click Change.

For Paging file size for selected drive, click No Paging File, and then click Set.

Click Yes after the following warning appears (if it appears at all):
If the paging file on volume X: has an initial size of less than xx megabytes, then the system may not be able to create a debugging information file if a STOP error occurs. Continue anyway?

(X is the drive letter and xx is the amount of RAM installed on your computer minus 1 megabyte.)

Click System Managed Size.

Click OK four times, and then restart the computer when you are prompted.