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| 1253044 | 2012-01-09 01:46:00 | Model 1500 Dell Lappy, XP-Home/SP3 - Up To Date security . Intel Duo-Core / 1 . 4 GHz The problem::: Optical drive quite writing, so it was replaced with another and immediately the read-write speed slowed down to only 4X . Ran HJT and 'killed' a few bogus BHOs and ran SpyBot S&D and found a threes-me of malware and cleaned them . One malware shut off the firewall, one was called opencandy . exe and another was called freeze . exe . Re-ran all them again and MSE which gave three reports of nothing left, bad that is . Cannot get DVD Shrink times back to normal - which used to be just a few minutes, and now runs a good hour and a half to write . Any thoughts? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1253045 | 2012-01-09 01:57:00 | If XP is on it, run this. (support.microsoft.com). Or do it manually on that site. Opencandy can be installed with free software. You should do a custom install (so you wont install it / untick the program that gets installed). I would also check and see if the hdd / or cd is running in PIO mode | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1253046 | 2012-01-09 02:19:00 | This dumbfounds me::"I would also check and see if the hdd / or cd is running in PIO mode " What is PIO? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1253047 | 2012-01-09 02:29:00 | So what version of windows is it? And if youre using IDE devices, make sure theyre jumpered properly. Look under IDE ATA / Atapi controllers in device manager. I think thats where it shows, whether its in PIO or DMA mode. It doesnt show on this | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1253048 | 2012-01-09 06:20:00 | Fixed it I did - with a little help from the suggestions here. Thanks all. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1253049 | 2012-01-09 06:44:00 | So what version of windows is it? And if youre using IDE devices, make sure theyre jumpered properly. Look under IDE ATA / Atapi controllers in device manager. I think thats where it shows, whether its in PIO or DMA mode. It doesnt show on this SJ says it's Win XP with SP3 in the first post. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1253050 | 2012-01-09 07:09:00 | So, the prob was? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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