Programs are slow to respond

[ingeborgdot]

I'll try to explain this the best I can. A computer that I have not the one listed in any of my sigs is having a little issue. Sometimes when I turn on the computer I will open up a program the program will open but it's like it opens in slow motion as the program opens you see it slowly go into its open state. You actually see it opening. I know you can always somewhat see a program open but this is like it is in slow motion. It does this for all the programs that I open and close. This will actually go away later or sometimes if I restart it. When I go into the bios the bios is very choppy. It is an ASRock board and when I contacted them they said to reset the bios. When I did it helped but now it is doing it again. I have reset the bios again and it helped again the other day but now it is doing it again. Does this sound like a bios problem? Does anyone seem to know? I don't know how else I could explain what is happening.

It is an ASRock Z87 Pro4, AMD XFX 7850 Vid card, GSkill ripjaws memory, Xeon E3-1220 V3, Corsair TX650 PSU, Windows 7 Pro.

 

[ArisVer]

I would check for virus and malware first.

 

[ingeborgdot]

There is no virus or malware at all as it is checked constantly.

 

[VirtualLarry]

overheating?

 

[ingeborgdot]

But it does it when I just start the computer sometimes.

 

[Lorne]

Disconnect all harddrive cables from the motherboard and enter the BIOS again to see if its still choppy.
I have seen both a bad HDD ribbon and SATA cable do this.

 

[ingeborgdot]

Okay, I did this. I then booted into the bios and it was now not choppy. I then hooked up one cable at a time to see which one was doing it and it is not longer doing it. What do you think?

 

[ingeborgdot]

Wow. Here is the deal. I replaced the sata cable that was connected to the SSD drive that was the one that was causing the erratic behavior in bios. Then I went back in with the SSD drive connected and it is now acting erratic in bios. I unplugged the new cable and went back in and it is now running fine in bios. It seems no matter what I plug in on the SSD drive it seems to be causing erratic bios behavior. What do you think about that?

 

[ingeborgdot]

It just seems that no matter how many new cables I try it still does this in bios if the SSD is hooked up to the mobod. When I unhook the SSD and go into bios and the bios does not recognize it then it is fine. What is the problem?

 

[Burpo]

In BIOS, maybe SATA section.. is there a disable hardware prefetch or similar?

 

[ingeborgdot]

Yes, and that now has solved the problem for now. WHY? What is the problem? So I thought until I went back into bios again. Now it is still doing it. AAAAHAHHAHHHh

 

[ingeborgdot]

Here's why I thought that worked. When I go to bios and then saved it I then exited and came right back into bios. Well, the erratic behavior was gone. So I thought that the setting change worked. I went back in again and it was not. I just went back into bios put prefetch back on, saved the changes and exited and then when the computer restarted I went back into bios right away and it is now working fine. It seems that when I don't go into the OS first and then restart it seems to work fine in bios. I am not an expert enough to know what the problem could be.

 

[Burpo]

Update the bios..
http://66.226.78.22/downloadsite/bios/1150/Z87 Pro4(2.30)ROM.zip

 

[ingeborgdot]

I did. Ever since then is when it seems the bios has been acting up. Is the bios you have listed different? I have the 2.30 bios.

 

[Burpo]

Yes, that's the latest.. You may have to go back to an earlier bios then..

 

[ingeborgdot]

I have 5 other computers with the same board and I updated them at the same time. They work fine. How would I go back? I have never done that before. Is that possible?

 

[Burpo]

After looking around, I guess not.. If the rest are working fine, I'd RMA the problem child..