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very slow 3ghz p4

  • 20-12-2007 10:34pm
    #1
    ComputerNerd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭


    working on a 3 ghz p4 yesterday with a gig of ram

    it was slow for a long time (since last rebuild) and now its not even booting


    i killed everything non m$ with autoruns in safe mode command prompt and this fixed the booting problem


    problem now is that its still very slow to boot up with constant disk activity which contiunes for about 2 mins,
    then if you click IE, you get constant disk trashing for about a minute before IE open


    also just browsing the net results in a lot of disk activity

    ran a scandisk and defrag no joy

    checked autoruns and no nasty apps had re-inserted itself

    so definately a hard drive mechanical problem or bandwith (drivers) problem

    looking in device manager - hard drive controller was an "uli SCSI controller" yet the drive is most definately a single sata drive, so I presume its the wrong controller


    tomorrow i'm going to see if the pc will boot up from the drive connected through a usb adapter and see if i can get it to access a second sata drive using different drivers

    any other suggestions


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,415 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Vista ? (hang on I think I see a problem with just 1GB ;) )
    Xp ?
    2003 ?

    motherboard brand / model , driver brand / model ?

    hdtune or manufacturers utility to check the drive
    you won't get full speed unless you have proper motherboard drivers


  • #3
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    Could be the HDD on the way out??


  • #4
    ComputerNerd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭ComputerNerd


    lol xp sorry.


    can't answer the rest of your questions, its a customers pc, i should have taken more notes, will deffo try the mb manufactures drivers tomorrow first off.


    will bump thread with more info if i dont get it sorted


    hate rebuilding a pc without a good bit of troubleshooting


    good point about hdd, will ghost it and try another drive


  • #5
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Reinstall the chipset driver, this will lead to a slow os


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