System Help

[chicsdiggit]

I've got two new computers built by Harddrive.com. The systems boast:

P4 3.2 Ghz
Gigabyte GA-AKNXP MOBO
1 Gig 400 Mhz Corsair XMS memory
Antec True Power Supply
Two Wester Digital Serial ATA Raptors in Raid 0
One 180 GXP IDE hard Drive
Plextor Plexwriter Premium
Samsung DVD ROM
Sony DRU-510
Windows XP Pro w/ Service Pack 1
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro

Oddly enough, these computers are being brought to their knees under normal windows operation! After a short amount of time, programs stop responding, and even explorer.exe quit responding. The systems are very new, and only a few apps have been installed on the computer, such as ZoneAlarm and Spybot, and ebatesmoneymaker, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Office 95, and ArcExplorer. I have run mtist.exe (memory tester) to see if the problem lay in the memory modules. Nothing there. Please help with some ideas as to what's causing these systems to slow to a snails pace!

 

[datalink7]

Office 95?

Maybe that is a problem... Office 95 is pretty old and maybe it isn't completely compatable with XP?

 

[amdskip]

I agree with datalink here. What else is running?

 

[SemperFi]

Have you done any surfing? If yes run adaware maybe even spybot S&D. My kids system had something similar. It was excruciatingly slooooowww. When you would click on a user on the log on screen it would take at least a minute usually longer to get to the desktop. I used an older version of adaware and it didn't get rid of the problem. I used the spybot and it cleaned it. I downloaded the latest adaware after using spybot so I don't know if it would have fixed it for me.

Have you looked in task manager? I had a rundll32 and another that I don't remember the name that between the two were using 100% of the cpu cycles. I couldn't even run adaware. On reboot it would run fine until someone ran IE.

I use startup.cpl if you don't use msconfig and make sure there isn't something in there that you don't recognize.

I just reread your post I see you have spybot that didn't help evidently. Look at task mgr and see what is eating your cpu cycles.

 

[chicsdiggit]

When I hit cntrl+ alt+delete, and when it finally gets there, it displays 99 by the System Idle Process. I make sure that my anti-virus is up to date, and every time I update, I do a full system scan. The only software running is the stuff that comes with the MOBO, and ARCExplorer (a special photo viewing program), as well as a couple ZoneAlarm freeware, and SPyBot. I've got Norton Antivirus 2003. Thanks for any other suggestions you guys may have.

 

[SemperFi]

99% idle and it is still that slow?

Something is out of wack. I am not sure what it is. But here is a bump for you.

You may want to try using msconfig and make those apps not start on boot once and see if that makes any difference. It probobly won't since you have that much idle. But hey worth a try.