computer continued

[arethinn]

I am utterly at a loss. There wasn't any spyware (as I thought there wouldn't be) - well, a bunch of semi-suspicious cookies, but that wouldn't really explain anything, and deleting them had no effect anyway. I deleted lots of invalid crap out of the registry. No dice. Norton claimed the drive was only 6% fragmented; Disk Defragmenter likewise said "this disk does not need defragmenting", but I tried anyway (despite having done so once before, about six weeks ago), thinking maybe Windows would like its own arrangement better, or something. No effect. I'm not sure how exactly to interpret netstat but all the IP addresses shown were local ones, almost all in the domain at that. Nothing looked suspicious to me. There's just nothing apparently wrong with it, yet it stil runs like crap.

I should add, if it wasn't clear already, that it's slow all the time, including before any user has logged on at startup, in between users when you log off and back on, and during shutdown as well (taking many seconds longer than the other one to shut down and power off, perhaps as much as two minutes more).

I give up.

Comments

[zaecus.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a hardware problem, and since you described a nearly identical computer nearby not having problems, I'd suspect that it's something that is, currently at least, inobvious.

In other words, off the top of my head from dealing with screwy hardware, either something is about to fail, extremely dirty in a way to impair efficiency, or you've got something like improperly placed jumpers.

Or, the silicon spirit in this particular computer is simply lazy and gluttonous. :-D

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a hardware problem

That's about the only possible diagnosis I have left, myself.

you've got something like improperly placed jumpers.

It hasn't always been this way, though, even in its current location. Which leads me to believe even more that something is gradually failing, or about to catastrophically fail. Aside from the fact that we need two desk computers, though, there's nothing special about this one, so catastrophic failure might actually be good because it would spur someone's ass into action about getting us newer ones to use for this purpose.

Or, the silicon spirit in this particular computer is simply lazy and gluttonous.

*laughs* Yeah, I've tried to nocker it, both in mean ways and in nice ways, but I appear not to be bad-ass enough to get results. ^_^

[soundwave106.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd have to go with a hardware problem at this point as well. You've eliminated all the software issues I can think of.

What hardware is a tough cookie to diagnose... the only thoughts I had are: A) Maybe a hard disk going if you are seeing a lot of suspicious disk activity; B) Maybe a network card if you especially notice a lot of crap on login / logoff (but you are saying it isn't bursting). I've never had RAM fail so I don't know what that is like.