This computer has been plaguing me a few days after I had it built. I've seen a never gig of RAM and a dual core CPU act so s**t in all my life. It was working well for the first three days, then at the end of the third day i turned the computer off. On the forth day, when I turned it on I noticed the 1st problem...the boot time went up from 15 seconds to 3 minutes. The login time for my account went from 3 seconds to 2 minutes... Sound has become choppy, stuttered and unbearable altogether I don't know why! >:( i thought svchost.exe was causing trouble, so i shut some services down, it help a tiny bit, I've checked for worms, viruses, spyware, adware I've used all the anti-malware programs under the sun, I can't find anything wrong, I see no driver conflicts, so what is it?? :((( PLEASE HELP ME

When you open the task manager is yoyur cpu usage at or around 100% the only thing explainable for this would be a virus or problems with ur registry have u tried NOD32 Antivirus i have this same problem but dont. at his very min my antivirus progrmas are poping up qoolaid witch i have 4 boat a month now and cant delete it bc i dont no how 2 run Xp in SafeMode any way try the NOD32 if u havent. my boot time hasnt been afected at all just the speed of the computer it self on the task bar the tabs will slowly appear and roll out but b4 windows Xp was pretty fast considering my Sempron 3400+ proccessor. so try that and look for something that fixes system faults and errors with regestry dont no any free one'd just use google hope i helped if u find a solution tell me

"This computer has been plaguing me a few days after I had it built" Maybe the fact that you built it is the where the whole deal originated from. I can relate to that. 6 months ago I bought over a twelve hundred dollars worth of parts plus the case and built my own computer. After it was done, after 3hrs or so, i booted everything was fine, but then when i tried to install windows xp it kept crashing. finally after the installation, windows crashed every second time it loaded. It was probably a defective hard drive or CPU, and an incompatibility of some sort. Now, my point is that in your case, it could be something as simple as a faulty operating system;;(try reinstalling windows!!!) if that doesnt help, it could be a defective part thats causing the problem, or an incompatibility between the components. You said you bought it only a few days ago right? If you have a heck of time on your hands man then you can test the hardware separately, but if i were id do what i did in december: TAKE IT APART AND RETURN IT.

If you think it a hardware problem, then you take everything out of the computer but what is necessary to run the computer. The add piece by piece until the problem shows up. What are all the components in you new computer? Never say Never Romeo Void Firefox 1.5.0.4 A Safer Browser Thunderbird 1.5.0.4

Look in Event Viewer to see what it tells you. Bryan

NOD32 doesn't pick anything up either :( here's the computer hardware list via SiSoft Sandra: Mainboard : ASUSTeK N4L-VM DH System BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0303 Hard Disk : SAMSUNG SP2504C (233GB) Total Memory : 1GB DDR2-SDRAM Processor Model : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 Speed : 2.00GHz Cores per Processor : 2 Unit(s) Threads per Core : 1 Unit(s) For the Event viewer, apart from Cdrom errors about bad blocks, I have the error message from the system control manager: "The DHCP Client service depends on the NetBios over Tcpip service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning." But this only occoured on the 11th of June...no later... and no relevant errors after that, just cdrom errors.

Have you tried reinstalling windows?