Michael Hardman Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Im sure theres something wrong with my computer its not normal to defrag my computer everyday. Im searching for viruses and fining nothing does anyone have any ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Some more info would be nice... Does the computer make you defrag it? No it's not normal and sounds like areas of your Hard drive are corrupt (Or the hard drive has "Bad sectors") Definately sounds like a screwed Hard drive unless you have a scheduled defrag set up to make the computer do this, but by the sounds of it you don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardman Posted September 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 No the computer loads up and is very very slow and most of the programs I open will crash ad the computer will die, so I turn it off hoping it will load up ok for me to defrag. If all I need is a hard drive I shall find one other than that Im running al my anti virus crap again to see what happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Sounds like you just simply have too muc on the computer slowing it down, if there is a lot executing at once it will confuse it and crash... Could just be that it's being over worked... How much RAM do you have? If you have an adequate hard drive but not much RAM or an older processor (P3 or older) that could cause the problem. If it's a new/newish PC then it could be a broken hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Harrison Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Defrag or Scandisk? Scandisk often runs on startup if you didn't turn the computer off properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Whats OS is it running? Sounds like a formats in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardman Posted September 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 XP I have to defrag it otherwise nothing will run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 What spec is the pc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardman Posted September 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 I cant remeber its 3 years old now. Something along the lines of amd, 40gb h drive, im not sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John planet x Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 I recon you should do a format :) always solves weird problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corish Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Can I ask how long have you had McAfee? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 As I said, it sounds fairly old so probably doesn't have much RAM. Take some of the programs off that run at startup. Best way, as said, will be to format the computer. Once formatted it will be completely clean and you can avoid installing junk second time around... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardman Posted September 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Theres barely anything on there, i have office xp, msn, expolerer, norton, and a few spyware programs. Everyting else has been removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Anti virus programs/spyware stuff can slow the computer down loads if they're always running. Click start> run > "msconfig". click the startup tab and untick pretty much everything, including the anti virus programs, restart and see how it does :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Sounds to me like something is conflicting... If there's two things trying to go at once they may be getting confused. When you defrag it does the report say you have any bad sectors? If so perhaps a program is trying to write to the bad sectors, causing it to slow down and get all confused, hence the system freezes? Without looking I can't help very much :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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