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Thread ID: 41474	2004-01-12 09:33:00	Slow windows processing.	Growly (6)	Press F1

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206957	2004-01-12 09:33:00	I recently got an ASUS A7V600 Motherboard and a AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton Core), with 512MB DDR 400 RAM (running at 333). I built it, and after some getting it to recognise the CPU, and more difficulty getting my SATA Seagate 120GB HDD (st3120026as) to work with the Windows XP Pro Installation, I managed to load windows, only to have it crash every time it loaded windows. Afraid of the worst, i reinstalled it, and except for minor stalls while loading, it runs Windows OK. Well, atleast it did. Last night, everything was ok. I brought it round to a friend's house today, and switched from my routed JetStart network at home to his 56k network with static IPs. Anyway, the main problem is that "My Computer", or "Windows Explorer" or "Network connections", or any other Windows applet / window take forever to load. I click on each of them, and sometimes it takes up to a minute and ten seconds to load them. Internet explorer takes twice as long, and loading pages takes atleast 30 seconds to even start, in the meanwhile, the window freezes. Running at 2083 MHz, i find this behaviour somewhat strange, though i have heard about conflicts of my motherboard with my hard drive. What dumbfounds me more than anything else is that it was fine when i loaded it. Thinking it was spyware, i loaded both Ad-Aware 6.0 and Spybot - S&D (1.2, with updated definitions). Using them , i found about 16 objects of spyware, removed them, restarted, checked again, but still - everything took for ever to load. I'm running out of ideas. I doubt its an individual hardware problem (though i understand it may be conflicts), I'm reluctant to contact any manufacturers... Please help. Does anyone have any ideas? PS. When i double click on "My Computer", or "Internet Explorer" (more likely), the process comes up in task manager, but there is no CPU usage for it. :-$	Growly (6)
206958	2004-01-12 09:45:00	Fair chance its trying to log onto or access a network resource thats not there anymore?	godfather (25)
206959	2004-01-12 12:08:00	get rid of xp... try windows 2000... jeez. if there were signatures on this forum mine would be... ________________________________________________ XP is ****.	hamstar (4)
206960	2004-01-12 17:27:00	Hi Growly, I have same hard disk as you. On a P4 3.0. Just wondering if you had any trouble getting it to work. Mine wasn't recognised by XP that wanted an IDE drive. However it seems to have settled down now and doesn't argue with me any more. Jack	JJJJJ (528)
206961	2004-01-13 00:40:00	It was suggested to me that it would be trying to find network resources that weren't there anymore, but what? There's no obvious drive mapped, but it might have been my gateway (when i got here i changed IP settings.....). So i'll have to wait to get home to check that theory out. Otherwise, and lol - Hamstar, I just spent $275 on Windows XP Pro, so being the broke person that I am , i'm not in hurry to get another one. Though i am quite fond of windows 2000. Yeah I had huge problems getting it to install on the first load, but i had to go find drivers from the mobo manufacturer, the one on the Seagate site didnt work at all. Cheers all, this problem is rather annoying :( It took me atleast half an hour to get to this stafe to post !!!	Growly (6)
206962	2004-01-13 01:25:00	Hamstar - there is nothing wrong with WinXP. It runs fine, works fine, and is (in my experience) just as stable as Win2k.	somebody (208)
206963	2004-01-13 01:34:00	Is it possible that Windows is trying to access a CDROM/DVD drive which has media in it, but is semi-unresponsive? Try manually disabling the network connection also, if you've just left it to automatically say "network cable unplugged".	somebody (208)
206964	2004-01-13 02:54:00	If it has been part of a network or "Neighbourhood", it will probably be looking to see the other members. If it doesn't succeed, it will try again. And again. And again. After a while it will give up. :D	Graham L (2)
206965	2004-01-13 05:55:00	That's good point, all of them. But, now I'm back on my home network, and everything is still slow. I understand that Windows would probably search for files in the neighbourhood, and that because of the drop down list it would affect all other windows, but lets not forget that IE is painfully slow too... This is so aggrevating. I look at my switch, the computer isnt searching for anything. I have no idea what caused this :s I'm going to reinstall windows now. But please keep thinking, it might come back :(	Growly (6)
206966	2004-01-13 07:49:00	Right, damn in hell.... I just reinstalled.. same problem. I mean for crying out loud (cliche?), what is going on? It worked fine on first install, and a few days after, then a few websites later baddabing baddaboom, and everything sucks. :'( HELP!!!!!	Growly (6)
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