Hi - my problem here is fairly complicated, so I am going to start at the very beginning.
I recently decided to get some upgrades for my current computer. My list was pretty short- computer case, power supply, and motherboard. I decided I was going to take everything else from my current computer (processor, memory, hard & dvd drives, video card, ect) and transfer it over.
After getting everything assembled and starting the power up, I immediately noticed a faint smell of burning plastic, and moments later one of the connectors to the power supply started to smolder. Needless to say, I tuned off the power.
So, with my new power supply and motherboard as one, I began to dissemble everything off of the board and back into my original computer. The computer booted up fine, all of the files are in the hard drives, games load properly and I have access to all of my programs....
...but my internet connection is SLOW. Pages before would basically pop up almost immediately (I am running cable internet) where now they run so slow, that sometimes the pages either come up empty - or as in the case of Firefox it tells me that the connections were reset from the server. Sometimes, they do pop up, but it takes forever.
The reason why I am here is because I do not know what to do. My internet provider tells me that there is nothing wrong with my internet service (they recieved every ping they sent) and the internet connection troubleshooter on windows tells me that there is absolutely no problems. I do not know if some part of the memory or processor was damaged from the problems relating to the new power supply "roasting" (and potentially sending a dangerous level of current into the processor) but my instincts tell me that if there was something wrong with the processor and memory that I would not be able to start up my other programs. (Sims 2, ect)
I did suspect my power supply might be bad, because when I put everything back into my "old" computer, the computer took about six starts before it made it all the way to the desktop. It was able to boot only after I switched the power supply's switch off, waiting about 30 seconds, and then turning it back on. But is it really that simple? Is my old (not the new one that fried) power supply really keeping me from being able to sustain normal internet speeds.
My system: Athlon 64 3800, Windows XP, 2GB memory, Abit AV8 motherboard
P.S. - I also thought that maybe I had a bad ethernet cable, but that appears to not be the case.
