Posted: 12/25/2009 6:31:32 AM EDT
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Ok, I'm at a loss. My main PC just started dragging all of a sudden. I mean it takes about 2 hours after rebooting for everything that starts with Windows to come up completely. I can't select windows in the taskbar. I have to alt-tab between them. I'm in safe mode right now and just ran Trend Micro's Housecall and Superantispyware. Neither of them found anything more than tracking cookies.
I noticed that my AVG install was saying it was out of date. In fact it hadn't run a scan since about Thanksgiving (week before actually). When I tried to update it the update failed and it said the install is corrupt. I'm going to try removing AVG but so far everything is hateful to do and 9 times out of 10 when I try to launch an app nothing happens. Any ideas from the hive? Update Looks like it was the data drive that was causing my problem. I hadn't considered that since it's been sitting in the machine since it died several months ago and I just this week started having the slowdowns. Well, after the Seagate software failed and I couldn't tell which drive was failing since I didn't know which drive was which model # I shut down and unplugged the data drive. I seem to be running fine now. Looks like my main drive is ok. Thanks for the help guys! |
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Is your drive light staying on solid (showing disk activity)? Any strange sounds coming from your hard drive?
If you ran 3rd party virus scans and they came up clean, I would suspect a hard drive problem, especially since the Operating System appears to be affected. Get your critical data and files onto different media/drive NOW while you still can. |
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Do you self a favor and skip the virus detection and removal routine.and go straight to nuke mode. That today is more than often a dead end waste of time and effort. You can do the virus detection and removal routine if you want but most of the newer viruses get their hooks so deep in to system files the only fix is usually a format and clean install.
1. Go to the hard drive manufactures web site download their drive testing tools and fully test the hard drive. 2. If the drive fails you know it is the drive. If not do a low level format of the drive using the manufactures tools and then a clean OS install. 3. Dump AVG and install Microsoft Security Essentials. If the drive tested good and that does not fix it and/or the problem keeps reoccurring you may have a bad HD controller... if so you need a new motherboard. If that does fix it image the drive so next time you get a bug you can just reload the image and get a clean start. |
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Do you self a favor and skip the virus detection and removal routine.and go straight to nuke mode. That today is more than often a dead end waste of time and effort. You can do the virus detection and removal routine if you want but most of the newer viruses get their hooks so deep in to system files the only fix is usually a format and clean install. 1. Go to the hard drive manufactures web site download their drive testing tools and fully test the hard drive. 2. If the drive fails you know it is the drive. If not do a low level format of the drive using the manufactures tools and then a clean OS install. 3. Dump AVG and install Microsoft Security Essentials. If the drive tested good and that does not fix it and/or the problem keeps reoccurring you may have a bad HD controller... if so you need a new motherboard. If that does fix it image the drive so next time you get a bug you can just reload the image and get a clean start. This!!!! |
