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Washbush:
Shane ... I am ready to quit. In two months I have still not been able to get at the causes of the two big issues ... the system won't reboot and now even Windows Vista "is not responding" from time to time with the CPU at 100%. Today I tried to reinstall Windows and there is no way to do an upgrade, only a clean install. Everything runs incredibly slow, starts and stops, jerks, and just plain comes to a halt. Cont-Alt-Del is the only thing that will get it going, other than to wait for who knows how long.
Is there any way to go in and repair Windows Vista? Or, what if I created a new partician and tried to install a clean version in it. Would that be possible?
John
Shane:
How does it do in safe mode? Does it work properly?
Also do you have a antivirus installed and if so which one? Reason why I ask is back when I use to use avast there was a few machines that avast freaked out on and the system would do exaclty what you are saying. Once I removed avast it worked fine.
So if it works fine in safe mode then we know it is software related :-)
Shane
Washbush:
I do not have a non-Microsoft antivirus on the computer at this time. I did at one time, but not now. Only the "regular" Microsoft stuff is running.
How does it work in Safe Mode? As near as I can see, pretty much the same as it does any other time. It will not restart. But , in Safe Mode, it will not shut down either. I used Safe Mode with Internet Connection. I opened Firefox, the CPU went to 100% and stayed there until I closed it. Without anything running, it appears good ... CPU - 2%, Memory - 22%, Network - 0% with 25 or 26 processes and services running. With Firefox running, CPU - 100%, Memory - 38%, Network - varies between 2% and 4%, but never more than 4% with 31 processes and services running.
So. It looks like it is a hardware problem. After running test after test, can I assume it is not the hard drive? It is a SMART drive, all is well, and it never goes over 104 degrees F, and is usually in themid 90's. On the hottest day, when the room is 80+ degrees, the hard drive stays right at 100 F, give or take a few degrees.
I am running a USB trackball, a USB wireless keyboard, a USB printer, and a pair of USB Bose speakers, and a USB Bluetooth dongle, all of them on the back side. One USB port is empty on the back, and two are empty on the front.
However ... I have something called TV2000 installed .... it is an analog TV tuner ... no good any more ... I just unplugged the power to it but never took it out of the case. Software for it has been removed for some time.
I checked Device Driver and fount two things ... it shows an alert for an "Unknown PCI Device". It is so unknown that even I don't remember what it was . However, it has been disabled for some time.
The second item is the Bluetooth Dongle and it has an alert also. It was not disabled, so I took the first step and disabled it. I'll see what happens next.
That's where I am today. And, the F-1 race in Austria is tomorrow morning. Wish me luck.
John :thinking:
Shane:
OK, but how does it do when you go into safe mode only and not safe mode with networking?
Shane
Washbush:
Bad news I am afraid. In Safe Mode only, it still does all the same things. I took a look inside and found an old modem card, a card that added three Firewire ports, and that old analog TV tuner card. I removed all three, removed the software, rebooted and nothing has changed. With no Internet connection, I tried playing a DVD .... same problem as streaming video - all jumpy, jerky, can't see or understand anything. Same for a video file on the hard drive. It still runs very, very slow, makes me type incredibly slow, won't shut down on reboot, just goes to the white screen and comes to a halt for no apparent reason, and sometimes even the task manager won't shake it loose. Once my hand slipped and I hit two keys on the keyboard at the same time and it froze up. So, now there is no card other than the video and sound cards. Ran SysMec full boat, it says everything is fine, but the computer still seems to let the CPU go to 100% for some reason I can't see or find. Is there a little program to analyze the motherboard? Should I uninstall the CD and DVD drives and see what happens? I just have run out of ideas.
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