Random slowdowns - Help :)

[RichGUk]

Hello,

 

The problems just seem to be on after the other for me lately, lol. I recently installed some new hardware (see sig) and had a few initial problems with it resetting in games, etc. This was soon corrected by moving the ram to the right slots once I did this I could play games fine and my whole system seemed to be running along very smoothly and nice and fast, it had been in this state of high performance for a few days with no problems at all. Last night however I left a DVD burning in Nero while I went out to the pub I come back a few hours later to find windows was being really slow, thinking noting of it I just rebooted and assumed that this was just windows being lame as it normally is however I discovered that it was slow after a restart I also found these slowdowns seem to occur randomly (well seems like that but it might be when I load something, or doing a task) but quite often (still do in fact) I set out to do some investigating I reset and booted into linux and found the same slow down effects taking place there so I was a little puzzled. I've installed the hotfix for X2 in windows as well as the driver and made sure cool n quite is disabled in the bios, has no effect - this slowdown happens in linux too anyhow.

 

All my temperatures seem fine in speedfan/MBM5 so I don't think this was the problem. Also my voltages looked roughly as they should.

 

I've concluded a few things:

 

1: My harddrive is on it's way out. But speedfan reports it as 100% healthy – and dammit its like 3 months old.

2: My CPU is buggered somehow, although it seems to run CPU tests and seems to be up to the default clock speed so not to sure.

3: Maybe my ram is playing up? It has passed 3 memtest's without any errors at all though.

 

Nothing in my system is overclocked, or has been overclocked at all.

 

I was wondering if anyone has a clue what this could possibly be, or if any direction on what I should try?

 

By the way;

 

BIOS: 06/23/2005

 

Many thanks,

 

Richard

[caebron]

What's the CPU utilisation and have you checked Task Manager if any of the running processes is eating your CPU resources?

[RichGUk]

CPU utilisation: 1-2% when doing nothing. This occured in windows and linux..

 

I've had my entire computer out including motherboard and put it all back in and I don't appear to be having slow downs.. Do you think the motherboard might of been touching something, or maybe the order in which it was wire? I'll tell you if I get slow downs again.

 

Thanks anyhow.