ok, my system just started acting weird.
i have xp, havent formatted in 9 months, ran like i just installed it, took really good care of it
now i tried booting, and it took about 5-6 minutes (normally takes ~40 seconds)
so i tried a whole bunch of things, ended up formatting.
after formatting, it STILL did this. so then i thought maybe its a hardware problem. took out everything, booted with barebones, it worked fine. added in sound card, worked fine. cdrom drive..fine..then i added in my 2nd drive (i have 2 drives, 1 reg cdrom, another cdrw). this drive is on secondary master. i put it in, works fine. i boot up, the system is slow again. then i take it out, works fine. put it in, works fine..next reboot its slow.
so i took out the drive. and it works fine. until now. its bootign up slow again. i put my old dvd drive in, and that worked fine. now i disconnected it, still boots up slow. now i think maybe its my 2nd hard drive. so i took that out, still boots slow.
my system specs:
athlon xp 1700+
shuttle kt266a mobo
256mb kingston ram
aopen 56x cd rom
lite-on 24x10x40 cdrw
maxtor 60gb
wd 10gb
visiontek gf4 ti4400 (o/c)
dlink 10/100nic
sb audigy
so what do you think the problem is? its very very frustrating, its almost 230 am and ive been tryign to work it out all day. *sigh*
tomorrow ill run a diagnostic on my maxtor 60gb, maybe theres something wrong with the drive. i built the comp, ive had it for well over a year now, i dont understand what it is. im pretty sure its hardware, because even aftera full format + reinstall of windows, it did it.
perhaps theres something wrong with my mobo's IDE channels?
BUT my computer works fine in safemode. thats where im posting this from. my mouse is also acting funny. its an intellimouse exploere 3.0..maybe half the number of times i single click, it acts like a double click. some searching on google like this showed other people had the prob, but no solution. it just started doing this too, in the entire time i've had the computer
thanks for all your help guys its greatly appreciated
i have xp, havent formatted in 9 months, ran like i just installed it, took really good care of it
now i tried booting, and it took about 5-6 minutes (normally takes ~40 seconds)
so i tried a whole bunch of things, ended up formatting.
after formatting, it STILL did this. so then i thought maybe its a hardware problem. took out everything, booted with barebones, it worked fine. added in sound card, worked fine. cdrom drive..fine..then i added in my 2nd drive (i have 2 drives, 1 reg cdrom, another cdrw). this drive is on secondary master. i put it in, works fine. i boot up, the system is slow again. then i take it out, works fine. put it in, works fine..next reboot its slow.
so i took out the drive. and it works fine. until now. its bootign up slow again. i put my old dvd drive in, and that worked fine. now i disconnected it, still boots up slow. now i think maybe its my 2nd hard drive. so i took that out, still boots slow.
my system specs:
athlon xp 1700+
shuttle kt266a mobo
256mb kingston ram
aopen 56x cd rom
lite-on 24x10x40 cdrw
maxtor 60gb
wd 10gb
visiontek gf4 ti4400 (o/c)
dlink 10/100nic
sb audigy
so what do you think the problem is? its very very frustrating, its almost 230 am and ive been tryign to work it out all day. *sigh*
tomorrow ill run a diagnostic on my maxtor 60gb, maybe theres something wrong with the drive. i built the comp, ive had it for well over a year now, i dont understand what it is. im pretty sure its hardware, because even aftera full format + reinstall of windows, it did it.
perhaps theres something wrong with my mobo's IDE channels?
BUT my computer works fine in safemode. thats where im posting this from. my mouse is also acting funny. its an intellimouse exploere 3.0..maybe half the number of times i single click, it acts like a double click. some searching on google like this showed other people had the prob, but no solution. it just started doing this too, in the entire time i've had the computer
thanks for all your help guys its greatly appreciated
