Please help me with my friends slow computer.

[Metalloid]

This thing was working fine until a few days ago. The hard drive started beeping at me constantly, but when I changed keyboards it went away. Now it is really slow when playing GTA3, and is also slow at other times just loading Windows and other programs. I took out the sound card, modem, and NIC (for some reason they were all on the same IRQ as the video card), I updated the video drivers, ran scandisk, ran defrag, and still no luck. It is no longer as slow when loading Windows, and when I tested RTCW, it seemed to be ok. But running GTA3 in 640x480x16, it is unplayable. Just a week ago it worked fine. Can someone please help me? I believe it has something to do with the hard drive, video card, or motherboard. I swapped out the memory, and that didn't help. I will swap out the video card tommorow.

System:
Athlon 1.33ghz
DFI AK-76
Hercules Prophet 4500 (Kyro II)
IBM 60gb 7200rm
300w PSU

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[XBoxLPU]

Running DMA?

What OS? Running standard PC will avoid the IRQ problem you had if you are running 2000/XP

The IBM Drive may be dying........ or a bad PowerSupply

 

[Pink0]

I have seen similar situations which were caused by corruption in the bios. The power on keyboard error you were getting when you "hard drive" was beeping could be an indication that the keyboard was damaged or that the bios could be corrupt or that the board could be otherwise damaged which in turn could damage the keybaord controller. I would jumper the BIOS to reset it to defaults. Beyond that you're going to need to provide us with A LOT more information.

 

[Metalloid]

I am running Win2K, and yes DMA is enabled.

Pink0, that keyboard has been really screwy with me before. I will try resetting bios, and if that doesn't work I will update it. I will then try video card, PSU, and maybe hard drive. If none of those fix it, then it is probably a bad motherboard. Thanks everyone.