Slow Computer, Fine Specs, newly formatted

[patio]

How much free space is on this HDD? ?
Are there any yellow !'s in Device Manager ? ?
How are you determining the system speed ? ?
You could DLoad and run a benchmark utility...

[Anythingwill]

there's 71.7 of 74.5 free space on the hard drive, and I expanded everything in device manager and nothing had a yellow !.
The processor is your main speed component, so that's what i would at first judge it by, but in this case everything is better on this PC that i'm trying to fix than my older one. Yet this one is running so slowly. As i said, it doesn't even play a cd properly because it's so slow, that definatly says there's something wrong. I can still run a benchmark utility, but i don't know that it's going to tell me much, right?

[patio]

I'm just trying to cover all the bases on slowdown issues here...let me give it some more thought.

Did we cover re-setting the BIOS back to it's default settings ? ?

[Anythingwill]

Well, we have now, unfortunatly didn't work. I actually pressed the Load Optimized Defaults, there was also Load Fail-Safe Defaults which i didn't try.
I have something new with this, though, now i've realized that for the first few minutes it's on, it works fine, but then for some reason it stops working well. Even if i just restart the computer it'll work for a little while

[Fed]

Has the computer ever been connected to the internet since the format?
Is it slow in safe mode?

[patio]

And you may as well try the fail safe setting...

[Anythingwill]

Sorry Fed, I thought that i'd already replied to your post.
In a sense i've been connected to the internet, i've had a cable connected, however i've never actually been able to get a webpage up, and my internet cd says that it occured an error.
Oddly enough it doesn't seem to be slow in safe mode, however the tests that are best to know for sure i can't seem to run. None of the drivers like my video or sound drivers work in safe mode.

Patio, i guess i should have just tried fail safe anyways since optimized didn't work, i'll post back how it works out in a sec

[Anythingwill]

I can't use the Fail-safe because it makes me load in safe mode then

[Anythingwill]

I thought we were getting somewhere with it not being slow in safe mode, any more thoughts on that?

[Fed]

Check you Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and see what your CPU Usage and Memory Usage is at the very bottom of the Task Manager screen.
Give it a short time to settle down after you open your Task Manager.

[Anythingwill]

When i first opened it up it was at 2%, but after a few minutes it started to get slow again, and as you can see in the pic the task manager was taking up 21%, you can see the other memory usage in the picture as well

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[Fed]

Look under the Processes Tab of your Task Manager and see if you can tell what is using up your CPU.

[Anythingwill]

at 21% it was just the task manager. All the other programs were at 0

[Fed]

Download and run Process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com and have a poke around in there looking for whatever is using your CPU.
I can't point you to exactly what to look for because my knowledge of Process Explorer is limited but I always seem to muddle through it until I find what I'm looking for.
Try it out & come back, we can compare notes.

[Anythingwill]

It's always jsut whatever program i'm running, here are some screen shots.
Paint was running at 92%, and just process explorer was running at 42%!


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