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03-19-2006, 03:43 PM
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Name: Andy City: Holly Springs State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jan 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I heard some of you guys are in the computer field so i thought Id ask for help here.
Recenly after formatting my harddrive and putting everything back on, I boot up and everything just freezes at the desktop for about 30 seconds, then becomes functional. I have minimal taskbar items, my harddrive is almost empty, nothing on that should take that long. I took off norton internet security, and I have no antivirus or adware running.
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03-19-2006, 06:21 PM
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Name: Travis City: Wake Forest State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I suggest ensuring you have updated video card, network, sound, and motherboard drivers. | |
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03-19-2006, 06:33 PM
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Name: Andy City: Holly Springs State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jan 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Yeah that was the first thing I did when I formatted, I usually format every couple months, but this is a new problem. | |
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03-19-2006, 06:41 PM
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Name: Travis City: Wake Forest State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Then it sounds like you have a hardware issue. In another post you mentioned you have dual video cards so that makes me think you have SLI. Have you tried cutting back to a single video card? | |
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03-20-2006, 06:37 AM
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Name: Andy City: Holly Springs State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jan 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Some how it worked itself out, maybe it was just spyware. The dual video card thing never gave me problems though. | |
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03-20-2006, 10:09 AM
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Name: Travis City: Wake Forest State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I doubt it was the dual video cards, but I was thinking more in line with one of the video cards. The last machine I built I went through 3 different video cards before I could find one that was consistent. Tried both ATI and nVidia cards and they were not cheapo's. Once I got the last one nVidia 6600 OC, it ran fine. Glad to hear yours is operationally sound again. | |
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03-20-2006, 03:27 PM
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Name: David City: Pittsboro State: NC County: Chatham Join Date: Oct 2005 Age: 52 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by Arcrist Yeah that was the first thing I did when I formatted, I usually format every couple months, but this is a new problem. Why???? formatting is a serious thing to do every few months and what a lot of work
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03-20-2006, 03:41 PM
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Name: Brad Keisler City: Waxhaw State: NC County: Union Join Date: Jan 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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If you're a serious gamer DavidF, nothing makes the engine purr like reformatting 
Travis, you or Arcrist ever played Everquest? That MMORPG was great!!
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03-20-2006, 03:47 PM
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Name: David City: Pittsboro State: NC County: Chatham Join Date: Oct 2005 Age: 52 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Uhmm, maybe a defrag, but a re-format - whew.. serious.
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03-20-2006, 10:04 PM
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Name: Cathy City: Forest City State: NC County: Rutherford Join Date: Oct 2005 Age: 53 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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There have been many times when I ask John what he's doing on the computer and he's said "reformatting the hard drive". It does work like a charm - you just have to have great back ups and a lot of guts!
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03-20-2006, 10:18 PM
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Name: Travis City: Wake Forest State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Never played it that I remember.
To sweetgums point windows is notorious for slowing down over a period of time and the only way to restore it a lot of times is to reformat. For example, on my current machine when I first finished getting it up, it would boot and be at the log in screen in 5 seconds flat. Now, it is up to 60 secs. Some of what causes it is additional unnecessary fonts, temp files, and the registry just getting huge over time. It is a drastic action, but you don't really have a choice with Microsoft. | |
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03-21-2006, 01:44 PM
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Name: David City: Pittsboro State: NC County: Chatham Join Date: Oct 2005 Age: 52 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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The point you're making there Travis is that it's the junk that accumulates that causes the slow downs and that's true. Its the loading of "try out" software and then poor un-installs etc that do it. If the machine is running well and you don't add applications or if you do then make sure they are reputable and un-install fully then a re-format should'nt be required, but as Cathy says, if you have great back ups and don't mind the work then go for it. The subsequent problems always seem to be that the drivers you backed up are not the latest or you didn't back up the drivers???
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03-21-2006, 04:05 PM
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Name: Mark City: Rock Hill State: SC County: York Join Date: Jan 2006 Age: 46 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by Sweetgum If you're a serious gamer DavidF, nothing makes the engine purr like reformatting
Travis, you or Arcrist ever played Everquest? That MMORPG was great!! What server do/did you play on ? I still play it occasionally. | |
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03-21-2006, 04:17 PM
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Name: Brad Keisler City: Waxhaw State: NC County: Union Join Date: Jan 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by MarkW What server do/did you play on ? I still play it occasionally. I played from June 99 til Feb 02 on Bertoxxulous. Wish I could still play. . . man was that addictive!!
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03-21-2006, 10:30 PM
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Name: Andy City: Holly Springs State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jan 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I played eq and eq2, sold all my accounts and got out while I was still alive. That game really sucks your life away, I get depressed thinking about how much time i put into the game. Also quit WoW, eve, planetside, ultima online, daoc and some others. No more mmorpgs for me, if i did go back it would be to craft wood in-game. | |
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