What is going on?!

TheDean

TheDean

TheDean

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Ok,

So over the past few days my Pc has started to badly misbehave.....it has always been nice and nippy to open up firefox, unrar large files, encode video etc etc etc - but now it seemingly takes an age to do anything.
It took over 2 hrs to unpack a 3.5gig rar file last night!!! :eek:
I double click on Firefox and it takes a good 10secs to open up.....
I can't recall any particular hardware issues that have been reported by Xp Pro, but obviously that doesn't mean to say that it's defo not hardware.

Any ideas what could be wrong? Also, this may or may not be related, when burning the iso in img burn the device buffer was all over the place and imgburn often had to slow down to let both buffers recover, thus the burning took a lot, lot longer than it should. My DVD drive is quite old...it's a Pioneer 111BK - Time to get a new one?

Specs: D2C, E6300, Corsair 620W, Crucual Anni 2GB, 8800 GTS 512.
 
Hard Disk on its way out? Got a spare with a similar install to confirm?

Another check - try reinstalling MB chipset drivers. A component might have become a bit fudged recently.
 
Le Samourai said:
Hard Disk on its way out? Got a spare with a similar install to confirm?

Another check - try reinstalling MB chipset drivers. A component might have become a bit fudged recently.
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HD was the first thing I thought...it is still under warrenty which is good though. I'll try re-installing mobo drivers tonight and we'll see what happens.

The way I have my rig set up maybe puts too much pressure on the primary HD though.

HD1 320Gig- Windows Xp Pro, Games (inc a now massive Steam install)
HD2 500Gig- Full back up drive used for movies, music, everything really

Neither are very close to being full though. Both WD Caviar jobs.
 
I've actually just sent back a WD Scorpio Blue 500gb for my laptop - locked up after 3 weeks. So, I'm im/patiently awaiting the replacement from WD.

For info, they offer an Advance RMA where they, supposedly, send out a replacement... in advance of them receiving the RMA.
They take your credit card details and will charge the current price for the replacement drive if the drive you send them doesn't comply with their RMA conditions (user damage to the HDD, improper packaging materials, etc).

More details on their website if it does come to that.
 
BACK UP NOW!

I'd say HDD...

Grab the ultimate boot cd and run the HDD test for your drives if possible, that ought to pick up any problems.
 
Just to confirm - it was the HD. I downloaded the WD diagnostic tool which, after testing, failed with a couple of seconds of starting the test :(
 
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