re: pc going mad
Tuesday, January 4, 2005 at 8:20 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11819 messages posted)
Diamond
Man what a can of worms..
I would start with a NEW HD or replace the MB..and get some new ram..
You can get a P4 2.4 board for about 80 bucks or less..
or a bare bones system for 125 bucks..and start over from sq.1
NOTE*** you may want to read the reviews on WMP 9 on download.com....
Good Luck
On Tuesday, January 4, 2005 at 12:25 pm, diamond wrote:
>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 ?
- Written in response to:
- pc going mad (diamond: Tuesday, January 4, 2005 at 12:25 pm)
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