something is wrong with my computer

[ShiWarrior]

going to be hard to explain, but I hope you nice people can help me track it down


I am using windows 7 64bit

All started when I was installing windows updates (I was unaware the rollback was turned off)

and upon installing one update, the computer started going extremely slow and not reading the CD drive very well

decided to format the computer and reinstall windows 7 again

and again installing updates, and I start getting problems again, starts slowing down, cant read CDs properly, cant install programs that I try and download (programs freeze when installing) internet explorer takes 5 minutes to open etc etc

any ideas?

 

[Destination]

Sounds like something is maxing out your cpu, bad process, stuck process, what does event manager say?

 

[PaulyD]

Memtest as well, just in case

 

[ShiWarrior]

Sounds like something is maxing out your cpu, bad process, stuck process, what does event manager say?

Do you mean Event Viewer ? I couldn't find Event Manager

if so, never used it before, so what do I look for ? (i'll get a screen shot of it)

Thanks

Memtest as well, just in case

good idea, ill try that, thanks

 

[ED209]

check task manager for anything using your CPU usage or check the resource monitor in the same area.

sounds like something is running in the background using up all your cpu usage

 

[ShiWarrior]

well, mem test came back with no Errors

 

[ShiWarrior]

this doesn't look right ?

 

[ShiWarrior]

problem is, I've reformatted the hard drive, so many times now, applications take forever to load for some reason

 

[darael]

Can you check the SMART data on your harddrive and post screenshots of the SMART data?

 

[ShiWarrior]

how do I do that ?

currently running prime95 stress test ok so far

 

[ShiWarrior]

somebody said checking SMART on my hard drive

i've just ran HD Tune Pro and under the "Health" tab i get 1 error message..

C7 Interface CRC count "attention"

"There were communication errors. This may be caused by a damaged cable"

i could try and change the sata cable and try again ?

 

[ShiWarrior]

changed the sata cable

feels more snappier now, but same error still..

 

[ShiWarrior]

I have moved the ssd drive to another port, changed the boot order to boot into windows

same error

could this be a faulty motherboard or ssd ?

 

[kouk]

A long shot but you could check Computer management to see which mode your drives are set to. I recall years ago I had an error that set mine to to PIO mode instead of the correct transfer mode and I had similar issues with rearguards to sluggishness.

 

[ShiWarrior]

A long shot but you could check Computer management to see which mode your drives are set to. I recall years ago I had an error that set mine to to PIO mode instead of the correct transfer mode and I had similar issues with rearguards to sluggishness.

Thanks, I will try that

im just installing windows onto another hard drive and I'll boot into that and I will try hd tune on this hard drive and see if there's any difference

 

[ShiWarrior]

Different hard drive (not ssd) same problem

ill check the bios next

 

[ShiWarrior]

I checked device manager and all interfaces are set to Enable DMA, is that the same thing as above?

 

[ShiWarrior]

I THINK I MAY HAVE CRACKED IT

in the bios AHCI was enabled, apart from one part in the bios, so I enabled it, and hd tune is now saying no errors ?!?!???


going to now re boot the ssd and make sure that is the same and works ok


if all ok, why has this happened ? I've not been in the bios to change anything

 

[ShiWarrior]

grrrrrrrrr


ssd drive still has the same error

not sure what to do now

 

[ShiWarrior]

well I cant fix it

HD Tune is saying communications error for 2 hard drives out of 4, 1 hard drive is ssd, that says there are 5 communication errors (c7) the other hard drive (non-ssd) is saying only 1 error under C7