so a month ago I was at a LAN party. We had about 8 high powered machines running in a basement and it was a good 85 degrees in there. About 6 hours in my video went out for a few seconds, came back, and went out.
I killed the game and let her cool down and everything seemed fine for the whole rest of the day and the weeks following.

About two weeks later I've had a sudden performance problem. The computer sometimes take 5+ minutes to boot and take's a long time to load upon login.

Intel 925XCV mobo
Intel 3.0 GHZ processor
3 Gig Ram
3 200 Gig HD's
ATI Radeon X700 Pro with ramsinks and a big zalman copper cooler

The only error message I'm sometime getting is at boot and its says "service program not active" and it seems to be related to Intel Desktop Utilities (temp monitoring).
Everything is running ok, its just slower.

I run avast antivirus, and have done a full thorough scan with latest updates
I ran an spybot scan
I ran a full ad-aware scan.

I'm doing backups now before I start with a scandisk or anything too major that might break whatever's just bending now.

the fact that the only error I'm getting is mobo related is somewhat concerning.

Anybody got any diagnosis ideas? Think I cooked something?

[This message has been edited by JD86GT350 (edited 10-31-2007).]

oops!

Try popping in a different video card?

Does it have onboard video?


How long does it take ot go into safe mode?

Look at yer caps, are any of 'em bad? (bulging, leaking)

Does it crash, or does it just take forever to boot?

FYI, If a HDD is failing, it's often better to back up FIRST, before tying to scan for errors... if the head is on its way out, doing a scan can actually make it fail FASTER...

Last time I experienced this, it was the HDD.

How do your apps behave once the system loads?
Any other weirdnesses?

[This message has been edited by FieroRumor (edited 10-30-2007).]

My power supply slowly took a crap and was causing a ton of speed problems with my computer. Could be something like that.

hey, good thought Rumor, it does have onboard video. I tried to find a mobo without, but totally forgot I had that option.

caps all look ok

safe mode also taking too long to boot

no crashes, no other signs of ANYTHING wrong at all except time to boot and slow performance (and that occasional intel system tray temp)

power supply is Antec trueblue 480 that's fairly new, so I'd hope that's not it.

Unfortunately I don't think I have another power supply here large enough to power this rig.

Oops, sorry, reading the title, I thought this was one of those age/performance threads.


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Ron

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[This message has been edited by blackrams (edited 10-31-2007).]

bad temp sensor causing "throttle down"? hard drive completely fragged? power supply getting weak, causing hard drive & mobo undervoltages? system clock speed change?

out of town tonight, but temps and voltages are all reading ok on the meters, I didn't check them in the bios tho
HD seems fine, no errors of any kind, just slow...

haven't messed with the clock at all

well I've run the stress test on this thing three times, not a single error, safe mode is slow too.

Haven't tried yanking the vid card and running onboard video yet because I don't have a VGA cable (or monitor for that matter) handy.

I'm thinking of just formatting and re-installing.
Maybe some wierd windows thing? system idle process in task manager is taking a LOT of resources.

well FYI a clean install of XP did the trick. apparently it was a software problem

this XP slipstream SP2 makes life so much easier, no more HD size issues!

Geekiest thread on PFF? "I was at a LAN party" LOL. just kidding
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I really can't laugh cause I am too stupid to try to understand or solve the problem