Major PC problems

[Thermo Nuclear Penguin]

Right I am having big problems with my computer at the moment

Basically what’s happening is;

On startup when it gets the loading screen (green bar going across screen on Vista) it sits there for about 5 minutes before continuing to load into Vista at a ridiculously slow speed. It also takes an age to load into safe mode...

Once in windows it is constantly freezing for a few seconds at a time and then continuing (all be it very slowly) Its not always a complete lockup, sometimes if I’m listening to music, only this will glitch and then continue playing, other times it will be a complete lockup.

I was watching a video on it and it kept completely crashing, i managed to put the video onto my portable hard drive and it ran fine...

I thought this could mean hard drive failure? but HD Tune says the health is OK...

I have run the Microsoft memory diagnostics to see if that came up with anything but it came up clean.

I am going to try a clean install of windows as that will rule out any corruption, but its seeming like a hardware failure?

If you have any thoughts please help me!

 

[Thermo Nuclear Penguin]

Ok I'm just about to pop off to work and with the speed of the startup it will be next week before I can run the test! I did however run the speed test last night and the peak transfer was around 52mb/s and slowest was 0.2mb/s. (they were the numbers, but I am assuming its mb/s)

I will run it again tonight when I'm in from work and will post more accurate readings and also check for it being in PIO mode.

Thanks so far!

 

[Thermo Nuclear Penguin]

Right sorry for the delay...

I ran a benchmark on HD Tech and here are the results...

It may well be a virus, but i have done all the usual scans and they have come up clean.

I think I am going to do a clean install of vista tonight and if the problem persists once on the clean install then it only leaves hardware failure.

As for POI mode for the hard drive, I couldnt find where to find if its in that anywhere, but considering i didnt change any settings on my pc, I would say all the settings are fine.