make a restore point b4 going there for safety At 05:56 PM 8/9/2006, Veech Poked the stick with: >yeah, that's the next thing. It started this about 2 months ago, not related >to anything I can think of, not new programs or any thing specific. I'm >considering doing a system restore back to 2 months ago.. that won't delete >any files will it? > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Thane Sherrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "The Hardware List" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> >Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:57 AM >Subject: Re: [H] sporadic slowdowns and stalls > > >>At 09:33 PM 08/08/2006, Veech wrote: >>>yeah, did a defrag a couple weeks ago. Little to no improvement. >> >>Defragging generally has little effect. >> >>>I had my main drive go bad on me back in April, the C drive just completely >>>disappeared. Ended up installing XP onto the D Drive, which renamed itself >>>the C drive, and soon after that the original C drive showed up as the H >>>drive. Thing is, iirc the C and D drives were both half of one large HD, so >>>these issues with the current C drive could be related to the previous >>>crash. I have the side of the case off, so heat shouldn't be an issue. >> >>I'd test your hard drives, and check the motherboard and power supply for bad >>capacitors. >> >>T >
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