Hey everybody! Im running an AMD Athlon 1700+, 512MB, 40GB. Just recently my computer has been slowing down to the point where it becomes no longer usable. Its like someone pours syrup all over it...it boots fine, runs fine, then hits the wall and locks up, after about 5 mins. I ran the performance monitor, and when these lockups happen, the Pages/Sec graph and the Disk Queue Graph go NUTS like off the scale, but the processor graph stays stable. Sometimes they return to normal but its not for long and the problem starts over again. Im thinking there must be a process that is eating my comp but it wont show in task manager and so i have no idea what it could be. I dont want to have to reformat cos theres a lot of data that i dont want to lose. I dont even know if a reformat would help anyway. Last Note: This problem does not happen in safe mode. I am currently in safe mode w/networking and all is well, but safe mode...well, it sucks! :p no sound/vid etc. Any help would be so greatly appreciated because I dont want to be stuck with a machine i cant use!! -ama-

you don't mention that your ever run maintenence on the harddrive. use the disk cleanup in properties if you haven't. i've seen a lot of computers slo because of 60,000 temp internet files, temp files, an just plain overloaded harddrive

i recently saw a pc do this same thing...the clock was slowing down as the pc was after boot up...the prob was mcafee was causing it.

Thanks for your responses guys. Ive run defrag a few times so i know its not a damaged disk and i always get rid of my temp files. i will look into running my system with minimal apps to see if that helps. Its just odd, the comp worked fine for almost a year and a half then one day this happened. Crazy.

As well as what kkk said...you don't mention if you performed virus/trojan scan.....here is some sites for free scans. http://www.trojanscan.com/trojanscan/scanner.htm http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/ http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp http://securityresponse.symantec.com/ http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ It also might be big pile of spyware hogging resorces. The next few links are for dl of spyware removal utilities...after downloading them update them and run scans, let them remove whatever they find. http://wilders.org/HTMLobj-1590/spybotsd12.exe http://www.lavasoft.de/ Good luck

try chkdsk /r from the recovery console. Rgds.

Tried all your suggestions, no disk errors, no viruses, no trojeans. BUT I disabled the file indexing service and the problem is gone. So bizarre. Thankyou all for your help!