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Extreme Slowness
Symptoms
- Random program freezes at completely random intervals. They don't crash, they resume functioning after a bit.
- Random freezing in games with soundlooping while frozen. Notable examples include TF2 and BFBC2. Frame rates are well above 60 on both.
- File transferring/Copying Across a hard drive, to a usb drive always takes at least twice as long as the calculated time, and transfers extremely slowly.
- Sporradic blue screens at least once or twice weekly. (PFN LIST CORRUPT and one or two others I can't remember)
- Running programs - They take forever to load up.
- Deleting things - Even one or two small files -> 5 minutes. (absurd, since using a 160GB intel SSD as the OS drive.
Already tried
- clean reinstall of W7. Tried Ultimate and Home premium (in case it's some sort of malware)
- graphics card replacement. Now: MSI Cyclone R6850 1GB. Before: Zotac 9600GT 512mb (I thought this would fix the freezing in the games, it didn't)
- Restoring all bios settings to default (in case my slight overclock was causing problems)
- Updating bios (SEEMED to have helped a bit, but was probably placebo effect)
I am truly stumped. My current specs are listed in my profile. This is being posted from a laptop that works fine. These problems are in a desktop.
Any ideas, anyone?
Thanks!