pc going mad
Tuesday, January 4, 2005 at 12:25 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by diamond
(1 messages posted)
Hi all,
I'm currently having lots of troubles with my computer, I tried nearly everything
to fix it but there's nothing I can do, I'm going short on ideas...Help please !!!
The problem is nearly nothing work properly...
I'm using Win 2K with service pack 4 at the moment...
Windows seems to work properly but some Icons or navigation bars look dodgy, for
example windows media player's (WMP9) window seems corrupted , it's made of lines
of different colours like an image that's corrupted and the navigation bars especially
in web browsers are not very accurate,
the cursor that moves when I read a video in WMP9 is moving forward then backward
then forward again and so on untill the end of the file but very quickly, and the
video doesn't. The video speed seems to be a bit too high...
I've been using a firewall (Sygate firewall) and an antivirus (Norton 2004) for a
long time, they started to crash, so I reinstalled the firewall but now it crashes
as soon as I get under windows, I tried to install some others but the problem is
the same... I can't even reinstall Norton, it crashes during installation...
So now I'm forced to surf the web unprotected...Anyway IE6SP1 crashes as soon as
it connects to a website (windows update for example, but nearly all websites as
well).
So I had to install other browsers...Firefox doesn't even start...
What is worse is I can't play sound, videos or view images anymore...
Sound is completely inaudible, especially MP3s (as if the PC couldn't decode the
file...I get only random sounds, the ones you get sometimes when a mp3 is corrupted,
but here it's all the file), CD playback is audible but the sound quality is awfull.
Videos with WMP9 look nearly good but the colours are not accurate and change from
file to file, the size of the videos seem to be random; sometimes it's completely
stretched sometimes it's not even if the file is the same...they seem a bit too fast
as well... Only WMP9 works, BSplayer crashes straight away...
Images with Acdsee seems completely corrupted and the problem of sizes is the same
as for videos, other viewers crash straight away, but if I open them with photoshop
everyting is fine...
3D applications like 3DMark 2001 or other benchmarks crash straight away...
That's it for the major problems but there are lots of others...
So I first thougt about viruses, I ran antiviruses or anti-spywares lots of times
but they could find nothing, So I opted for the last solution I could think of: formatting.
I formated the hard drive entirely, deleted partitions and everything, reinstalled
Win2k and a few softs to check everything was going well, but the problems were still
exactly the same...
I formatted again and tried installing XP, I think it was even worse...For example
as soon as I connected to internet the PC shut down because of "autorite NT\System"
& "RPC procedure call". That is usually because of the Blaster Worm, I searched for
it with Symantec utility but found nothing...
I even made a low level format to delete boot sectors, reinstalled Win2K, the problems
were still there...
I removed my RAM and swapped the bars they don't seem to be the cause, I did the
same for IDE cables but nothing changed
The problems are still the same in VGA mode so it doesn't seem to be the video card
either.
I ran Some benchmarks to test CPU, RAM, HDDs... RAM and HDDs seem to be OK but I'm
having some errors with floating point and 3Dnow operations. something like 60 errors
out of millions of operations...Can that be the cause ?
I rebooted and saw that at startup the speed of CPU shown is 1380 Mhz, I have an
Athlon 1GHZ, it wasn't like that before, and I can't remenber I've changed the BIOS
settings... but Benchmarks give the right speed of 999Mhz, some others like Sandra
Sysoft give 4GHz !!!
If I try to change the CPU voltage settings to get the right speed in the BIOS nothing
changes, statup still display 1380Mhz
I'm out of ideas now, can someone Help please ?
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