Win XP issues.

[The Stinger]

I am running a AMD 1.8 athlon chip, with over a gig of ram with a 120 GB hard drive. But something odd started happening to me about a month ago.....

When I restart my system for whatever reason, after restarting my pc runs extremly slow. It's realy odd. I went to the task manager and noticed that cpu runs at 100% and then when looking at the processes the Winlogon is never completeing. So what I have to end up doing is pwr down the machine then turn it back on. But that doesn't always work. Sometimes I have to leave it off for 5 min or so before it will boot up ok.

Have any of you heard of this? I have defraged my pc, resynched the memory, checked for adware and spyware scaned my hard drives. It is the strangest thing that I can't restart my system.

[Faustus]

Have you tried using the Windows Restore feature to set the registry back to before the problem started?

[Scottie]

I use Sympatico High Speed for internet and when both my computer are using Sympatico High speed when I boot my system up it takes about 5 minutes extra, dosen't do this on Win98 or with any other ISP that I know of just Sympatico not sure why.

[The Stinger]

Have you tried using the Windows Restore feature to set the registry back to before the problem started?

Yes I have, that is why it makes me wonder if my processor is going out or it's some other hardware issue.

[Faustus]

I use Sympatico High Speed for internet and when both my computer are using Sympatico High speed when I boot my system up it takes about 5 minutes extra, dosen't do this on Win98 or with any other ISP that I know of just Sympatico not sure why.

No idea what Sympatico is but maybe if they are using special software you should check for updates. if they are not then likely its broadband I assume and its just taking a while for your network to initalize under XP on startup. You might want to start a new thread on the topic however instead of taking someone elses over.

The Stinger:If a roll back didn't do it then try reinstalling from scratch. If its still misbehaving then its likely a hardware problem.

[glockjs]

i agree with flaystus, do a complete restore from square 1. if still have probs deffinately a hardware issue. to me sounds like a virus, ill program installed, or some nasty spyware.

[Gritz]

Sounds like trouble with a hardware device being recognized. I'd look first at the cdrom, take out the disk if you have one in it .... if you have a cd in it perhaps it's trying to recognize the data on bootup and having trouble. Next try disconnecting it and booting. Run Spy Sweeper for ads. (I recently found over 700 ads running on a client's pc). Or use "Hijack This" to ID any running apps. Bootvis (XP) can check for devices hanging on bootup. Run msconfig.exe and check for excessive startup apps. Also while there (on the General Tab) uncheck the System.ini and Win.ini and reboot to see if that makes any changes ............. just some thoughts.

[mujahid7ia]

i agree with flaystus, do a complete restore from square 1. if still have probs deffinately a hardware issue. to me sounds like a virus, ill program installed, or some nasty spyware.

I agree, clean install would be the easiest way to solve the problem.

[The Stinger]

Thanks for the replies guys. Did the restore from scratch, and still the same odd thing. Ok I did try to get into "Safe Mode" and it came up just fine. Now I am really confused. Cause if it were hardware, wouldn't it happen in safe mode as well?

[Faustus]

Thanks for the replies guys. Did the restore from scratch, and still the same odd thing. Ok I did try to get into "Safe Mode" and it came up just fine. Now I am really confused. Cause if it were hardware, wouldn't it happen in safe mode as well?

It should, try updating all your drivers and make sure all the MS patches are installed.

[808smokey]

Turn off messenger. NOT MSN Messenger but the XP messenger. For some reason mine kills my computer when its running. To open - Start -run - type MSCONFIG - enter/OK then click services tab (I think) then uncheck the messenger box. That fixed mine. Viruses and trojans use that for spamming, so I hear.

*EDIT* I would turn off all the crap you don't need in that file list.

[Gritz]

"Safe Mode" just loads up minimum drivers and basic services ... and no networking connections unless you request it. "Base" video drivers so your specialized video driver is not loaded .... Sooo .... somewhere between the basic services and your current "all loaded" system drivers you have a problem. Maybe video related, network related, or like a recent software change ?? Or so it seems to me.

[The Stinger]

First off let me say thanks to everyone who gave their 2 cents. I narrowed the issue down and it turns out it was one of my memory chips. I decided to re-install xp on another hard drive I had in my system, checking to see if maybe it was the hard drive. After installing the OS, i noticed that when it would reboot it would hang for 20 min or more not do anything. I decided to open my case and pull out its guts. After resynching my ram I noticed that one of my chips had a tear in it, as if someone took a knife and sliced it. Didn't see it when I installed it but all is working fine now.

Thanks.

[Gritz]

Aha .... I had the identical problem trying to install Win98 (way back). Hung the same place every time during install .... just stop and display the same frozen screen and no hard drive activity or cdrom activity. I initially thought it was a bad OS cd and tried another copy ... same thing .... finally I just started replacing components and it turned out to be the memory.

[808smokey]

Aren't computers fun?

[jexster]

You might try using something like tweak all now and deselecting everything that you don't need when your computer boots up. It may be some kind of conflict with a application that you have is trying to cause it ro crash. Majorgeeks had codefordge's tweak all now.