Hi All,

Sorry to butt in but I think that my home machine is suffering from the same
problem. I've been posting to the windows XP forums at www.2CPU.com as its a
dual core MSI-694d system with twin PIII 733s and 768MB of memory.

http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?t=70497

I've reached the stage where I've done anti virus/spyware scans and they
come up clean, and used the manufacturers HD tester to check the boot disc
(also clean). Given that the boot disc is 5 years old could it be going and
not show up on sector scans. Things like chkdsk and defrag freeze the
machine, as well as surfing the net :-( . Note its behind a hardware
firewall, with a software firewall and anti virus/spyware systems in place so
I think I'm protected from the nasties on the net.

If anyone has any suggestions which might help I'd be grateful.

Regards

kaitain

"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:28:08 -0700, Karen Pro <Karen
>
> >My computer has been running slow and freezing up.
>
> Bad RAM crashes at full speed, but bad hard drive can cause both
> drastic and patchy slowdowns as well as apparent lockups.
>
> Suspect this if your freezes stop the mouse pointer from moving, cause
> keystrokes to be delayed, and have the HD activity LED fully lit for
> the whole duration of the freeze.
>
> You may hear no HD seek noise at all (sector retries on the same
> cylinder) or a cyclical clicking or NyyyaakNyyyaakNyyyaak noise
> (retries of seek attempts to locate the cylinder).
>
> "Just one bad cluster" is reason enough to evacuate and replace a sick
> hard drive, before it rips your data by the nads.
>
>
>
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> I'm baaaack!
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