HELP!!! Something SERIOUSLY wrong with PC!!!

I'm totally freaking out!! All of a sudden this thing is running like SLUDGE!!! And I have a decent fast computer. I'm spoiled by it. But now ...out of NOWHERE ...the thing is running so slow that it takes like 5 minutes just to get an application running ..IF it will run at all. It just doesn't work. Like for example ...AOL keeps saying it needs new files to work ...like I just installed it or something ...and that's NOT TRUE...and then it will freeze and nothing works. Or if I try to load Internet Explorer ..it takes like five minutes to get the page up. Or if I run media player ...same thing. Everything is running way too slow. I can't even run spyware or virus scans. Any ideas on what's wrong??? I really don't want to have to reformat it ...but if it stays this way ...I can't use it. http://forums.majorgeeks.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Here's my specs:

Turbo X-Infinity 420W Case
AMD™ Athlon™ XP-3200+ Processor (Barton 512K L2 Cache)
ASUS A7N8X-E DELUXE NVIDIA nForce-2 ULTRA 400FSB SATA AGP8X W/ USB2, LAN, IEEE, & AUDIO
1GB (512MBx2) PC3200 DDR400 Memory (Corsair_XMS)
80GB 7200 RPM ATA 100 HARD DRIVE
Albatron Trinity NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE 128MB/256 bit 8XAGP
CD-RW 52X32X52
3D WAVE ON-BOARD 5.1 SOUND CARD

 

Sounds like adware. What you want to do is run an adware program in Safe Mode and at startup.

 

You need to go to the spyware forum and follow this thread AS CLOSELY AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE....

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

Then if that doesn't resolve your problems...THEN ask for help in that forum!! They are scary smart over there!!!!

And remember....DO NOT POST HJT LOGS UNTIL SOMEONE ASK FOR IT!!!!

Roger

 

Those system specs look almost identical to mine! Though, I have a BFG 6800OC video card and a gigabyte motherboard.

Though, personally, I think my machine is slow.

 

I had a similar problem and it turned out to be a bad stick of memory. it wouldn't hurt to download and run docmem or another memory program. you can usually download them on another computer put it to floppy the run on your rig. it may not be it but its worth a try if spy ware check doesn't find anything.

 

Ok ...I'll run through all the suggestions tonite and try them all. Now what is the name of the memory program I need to find??

Thanks a bunch!! I hope this works!

 

Ok ...I tried all of these suggestions (took the better half of the night) and NOTHING has changed. It took me almost 5 minutes just to pull up IE and to run all those programs??? UGH!! One took almost 10 minutes just to load. Now that is totally NOT normal... What could be wrong??? I'm soooo frustrated! I've NEVER seen a computer run this slow ...and it's not even a year old!

 

When did you defrag last?

 

Try taking out your memory stick/s and reseating..

 

I uninstalled AOL and now everything is working fine!! Yipeeeee!!! So something must be wrong with the aol program I had ...I'll download a new one and see if it all works out. Again thanks for all the GREAT advice and showing me the proper threads and people to help me out!! You guys ROCK!!!

Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!!

 

AOL is my weakness, just as Kryptonite is a weakness to SuperMan!

 

Yea AOL sucks ....dont reinstall it inless you are ganna die with out it....I was just about to say just uninstall AOL ...then i read the whole thread ..you whoulden blelive how many systems i get that run like crap and the only thing wrong with them is thay have AOL installed....and iv never known bad ram to slow a system down ( it whould just crash ) ....thow it whould make since if it were ECC ram ...