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    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Elias, May 30, 2005.

  1. Elias

    Elias Notebook Consultant

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    My computer (i9200) is running extremely slow. It started acting up on Friday night. I restarted it because I lost connection to the internet and figured a restart would help a bit. It wouldn't boot up, so I restarted again and it let me boot, but it took forever.

    After that, I could hardly do anything. If I was running iTunes, the audio is extremely choppy. It's been getting a tiny bit better, now I can do more at one time, but I can't listen to music because it's choppy.

    What should I do? I'm planning on backing up my important stuff and doing a clean install... again. I've done one just a few months ago (probably less than 2 months ago, as I recall). It was great for a while, but it's been going downhill.

    I've done virus scans, spyware scans, and registry scans. I'm planning on doing an online virus scan tonight, just in case the definitions I have aren't up-to-date.

    Thanks.
     
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  2. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    You might run a HDD scan, sounds like you might have some corruption there.

    Brian

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  3. qwester

    qwester Notebook Virtuoso

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    how hot is it running ... fan problems?
    when the cpu is protecting itself from thermal death you get such effects.

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  4. RadcomTxx

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    there is also a possibility that your hard drive could be going and the transfer speeds are down to really low numbers. Try a harddrive utility like HDTune.
     
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  5. mtrivs

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    I would say that you should try and run a spyware scan to see if there are processes that are taking up a lot of your CPU thus causing the choppy music. Worse case you would have to reformat and put a clean install of windows on , if all your music on itunes is payed for, you should be able to download it again![ :D]

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