PC slowing down!

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hello,

I reinstalled win XP Pro, reformat my main drive, and now the computer is fresh and clean, but...SLOWER!! An obvious one is sometimes(even right after rebooting) the mouse has a 2 sec delay when moving it.
Any idea? it ran XP pro fine until I reinstalled this time...

Any advice appreciaterd

AL
 
Precluding hardware changes it sounds like you better give Bill a ring;)
Guess you'll have tried another load?
 
First I would look in your device manager and make sure that all of your drivers are installed correctly or at all. It's possible that when you f-disked the system and reinstalled windows that it did not correctly reinstall all of your devices or could not recognize certain devices.
If that all looks OK, you may have an IRQ conflict. Possibly there are devices in you system sharing interrupts that are not capable of doing so. I've seen this happen when a system is "wiped" and restored after new hardware is added. Look in your device manager and see if any devices are on the same IRQ or........I have solved this before by:
1)Remove the PCI card of the device that was added to the system (possibly your pro sound card).
2)Remove all of the driver and driver information for that card.
3)Reboot the system without this hardware and let windows reassign IRQ's to everything.
4) Reinstall the "new" hardware and drivers.
This has worked for me on several systems I have worked on for friends so maybe it will work for you?
Good Luck!
 
do a google search for xp tweaking/tweaks etc and (stop services) best of luck..

oh, and make sure you have at least 256mb ram, 512 is even better when procesessing audio files...

there's tons of XP tweak info on the web, free, use it, XP is faster than 98se when tweaked out...
 
Monte is probably right. Just remember, any time you redo a computer (as I like to call it) you're asking for trouble. I do it about every 6 months to a year, just to clean the thing up. But it takes me about 2 to 3 days to get everything loaded and working properly. So don't do it unless you absolutely have to.

Go through your control panel and hardware devices to make sure all of your hardware is working properly. If not, you may have to hunt down your driver CD's/floppies for all your hardware and reload them.
 
Monte:
I thikn you nailed it. I checked, and a couple of hardwares were properly installed. Things kinda got messy cuz I just got a new MIDI 8x8 via Parllel port, and now my soundcard doesn't work anymore.
So, i am definitely gonna follow your advice, remove all PCI cards, and redo this baby.


Thanks, all. I will post back when I find out if it helped :)

AL
 
tip, partitision the drive and put the os on the first partition, then all you need to do is reformat that partitision when you reinstall not effecting any data on the rest of the drive or other partitisions...

saved me tons, days, weeks, months even of system config by ghosting an image of the C:/ partition and D installed (tweaked) programs...

look around, i posted about it in this group somewhere this past week...
 
Oh, boy.....

Took out the PCI cards, and the PC crashed like mad!!

It wouldn't run until I put the PCI cards back, and even after I put them back, the PC was still weird, and gave me a blue screen saying somehting about dumping disk memory somewhere?? I think. So, I have to wait for like 15 minutes everytime that blue screen comes up, and it came up every time I tried to uninstall the drivers for anything or BACKING UP MY FILES!!
Anyways, I have reformatted the main drive and reinstalled win XP (after it crashed several more times during those process), and everything was great without my soundcard. Pulled out the audio-card, rebooted, put card back, and CRASHED......

anyone? any clue??

ps. I have Audiophile, and it has never given me any problem for a year until recently when I tried to install a midi device via parllel port.


Fusion2:
Thanks for your advice on partitioning and tweaking. I have done those tweakings based on info posted on this site(maybe your post?) until this reinstall, and right now I put all of my files in my 2nd HD, so XP is the only thing in C: at the moment.

AL
 
Im using XPpro on a 2ghz p4 with a layla and SB5.1 and have not had any problems. But I havent reformatted nor is it hooked up to the internet.
I have seen quite a few posts about windows XP slowing down for various reasons not just audio. I guess this OS really is bloated with crap.
Heres one more link if you dont have it.
http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
:cool:
 
bad memory does all kinds of funky stuff, pull part of it out and test again. Also you may have a hardware device pulling the 5v down get a voltmeter and check your power supply. Thats where Id start
 
Thanks for replying, guys:
I installed 98se, and the issue still remains, so, it's gotta be some type of hardware problem. Last time I tested it without any PCI cards, the PC ran OK, no crash, but certainly feels a bit funny...could be just me, or the speed seemed slower, especially at shutting down and booting.

wfaraoni:
Good call on the memory, that's the only add-on (meaning stuff I added to my Dell) I have't unplugged from the PC. Will have to give that a try.
What do you mean by pulling down 5V? a hardare taking up more voltage than it's supposed to???

THANK YOU ALL!!

AL
 
voltage getting pulled down?

sometimes a piece of hardware will draw more current than it is designed to. Oftentimes someone will plug in a board and power up but the board was not seated correctly and something , like a trace or on board chip can short out with no other signs or at the time other than a reseat being required by the installer.. (For a while anyway) Usually when something frys on a board. this may not be evident for a while in any way other than the overall voltage drop in power to all other circuits basically because the power total power consumed is more than can be supplied. a small drop in voltage can have disastrous effects. a machine which is run at low voltage can have a chain reaction type of reaction where the low voltage causes other motorized things, ie drives and fans to draw more current and it burns them up a s a result. In computerized industrial equipment I see this all the time. Im not a pc expert but the same theory applies. Its worth using a voltmeter to see if your voltage remains good as a basic troubleshooting step as well as a precaution. check the votage when the slowing down occurs as some circuit may get energized while performing only certain commands. I hope this helps.
 
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