Re: Slow PC


"DustWolf" <jure.sah@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The only hardware reasons for this sort of behaviour is a short or a
PCI misconfiguration, which arises from damaged / fried cards in the
slots or a problematic harddrive.

Try removing any modems or network cards or tv cards and see if the
problem persists. If it does, try a different harddisk, or more
practically, see the windows event log (control panel > administrative
tools > event log > system) for any red "(X)" icons indicating harddisk
timeouts or read/write errors.

There might be a few other reasons, but try this first.

Pete je napisal:
For the past few weeks, my PC has run slowly. Specifically:
- boots slowly
- general slow response
- takes a long time to begin printing
- constant high CPU usage (50-90%)
- cpu and graphics benchmarks that are 3-4 times slower than previously


Aha, not sure if a PCI issue is the only potential hardware issue, but it
was my issue. Turned out to be a flaky PCI USB card.

Thanks to all for the advice and informative banter.

Pete


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