ed84c Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 Its odd really it isnt slow in loading programmes etc, but as soon as it opes the wall paper it just stops and does nothing for 2mins and then just carries on.
5614 Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 whats your computer's spec? (processor, RAM, HDD size?) when was the last time you formatted? its mainly due to start-up programs, check in the msconfig start-up list change your sig to make it like mine is now!
ed84c Posted January 16, 2005 Author Posted January 16, 2005 Yeh ive looked through regedit. My comp has 256mb Ram and 2.66ghz proc. thing is you can hear it when it is struggling to open lots of progs but it just doesnt do anything at all, infact even checking with ctrl alt delete, no programes open.
5614 Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 you really dont get the sig... so far so good, now make them all hyperlinks!!! you dont need to have the text + the code with site/name again, look at mine! what version of windows are you running?
ed84c Posted January 16, 2005 Author Posted January 16, 2005 woops i just copied yours didnt work XP home
5614 Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 yay... you got your sig in the end! anyway, go to the start bar, go to run and type in msconfig then go to the start-up tab on the right and see how many processes are there with a tick next to them.
ed84c Posted January 16, 2005 Author Posted January 16, 2005 a few but as i say i deleted un wanted ones in regedit. And the computer doesnt slow down to open progs, it jsut stops.
Primarygun Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 5614, my last booting problem seems to be solved. I turned off all window starting programs, and the problem then is solved. I may suspect that it is due to avast or nod32, more to avast as I install it first and the problem has started since that time.
5614 Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 ed84c: ive never seen this with XP, the old win98 comp does that because it doesnt have enough RAM and its had a lot of crap on it... so i formatted it and it runs a lot faster now... if you can id advise a total format... primarygun: i cant remember your exact prob, although i could go find the thread once ive posted this, did you just remove everything outta msconfig or do you start in safe mode or what?
Primarygun Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 My problem was the system reboots many times and sometimes the power circuit seemed to have some problems. Msconfig.
5614 Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 if you got rid of everything in your msconfig that will include you active or real time or running in background (same thing!) firewall and AV, so you will be vulnerable to viruses and hackers. wasnt your prob with the beeper sounds here: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8107 ?
Primarygun Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 I retained the zone-alarm as I know it is not the causer. I start the avast myself, instead of automatically by system.
5614 Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 so one sec, your prob with the boot, was where you had beeping noises and you spent hours starting up? was there a thread on SFN on this error? so what, could you eventually use the computer it just took a while? and you just unticked everything in msconfig?
Primarygun Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 Yes, I did. What's the name of the program responsible for the sound system.
5614 Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 its part of the hardware diagnostics system... that's what's weird about you changing the msconfig list fixing it. i thought your problem was that you couldnt boot up at all... what was your problem?
ed84c Posted January 16, 2005 Author Posted January 16, 2005 I had beeping problems due to r am being inserted incorrectly, check it is in correct
ed84c Posted January 16, 2005 Author Posted January 16, 2005 also remember in some comps it will only accept one slot of RAM and that must be the one supplied. (well on my own comp anyway)
5614 Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 the beeping (or on my computer lights, same thing) is part of a critical hardware diagnostics scan that is always running... it'll detect basic errors with RAM, PCI cards, video controllers, HDD errors etc... hence im a bit confused as to why getting stuff outta the msconfig list would solve a problem. im guessing i just didnt understand the original prob: "I spent nearly one hour to boot up my computer after I turned off the power plug" -- primarygun i thought he meant that it took a long time to boot up, he meant long time to boot-down, or shut down... i think. but once you turn off the power it should all die, so im not sure, but whatever, if its fixed thats all that matters!
5614 Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 Its odd really it isnt slow in loading programmes etc, but as soon as it opes the wall paper it just stops and does nothing for 2mins and then just carries on. back to this!... i still reckon its boot up programs, what else? what happens if you click on an icon whilst it is in this "2 mins" stage?
5614 Posted January 16, 2005 Posted January 16, 2005 is it actually 2 minutes? or does it just seem like that... like when you are waiting doing nothing for 30 secs it can seem like 2 mins the computer has gotta be doing something! maybe connecting to the network/internet, running spyware/viruses or just opening programs 1) defrag 2) disk cleanup 3) spyware scans 4) get avast... its a free trial and use the boot time scan... a few viruses can avoid detection once installed and running, avast boot time scan will get em! also go to ctrl + alt + del > processes tab... how many processes are running?
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