Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Any idea what else might be causing the continuous hard disk
activity slugging the PC to an almost unusable crawl? Nothing
identifiable in the lists shown in Task Manager for example.
Check how much RAM Windows reports and compare it to how much it's
supposed to have.
Sorry to hear the bad news. I have no suggestions to how you resolve the PC
problem but given the urgency, if you have web access and your netbook
supports, then I recommend using Prezi (prezi.com) to complete the presentation.
Hopefully when you then have the advantage of time, you'll be able
Yup.. as Marcel says. Try looking under Windows error reporting too if you
run an msinfo to file.
I would check how much free space you have on your hard drive too, but I'm
in agreement with Marcel. Either the RAM has got damaged, or the Windows
swap file or HDD is to blame.
Darren.
Sent from
3GB physical RAM installed, task manager says:
Total 3037
Cached 979
Available 930
Free10
Processes 94 - some known (QPC, Dropbox, Windows Live Mail, AVG, NTI backup
etc) unable to identify some of them from the meaningless names, some I know
are essential Windows services
Dilwyn
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
3GB physical RAM installed, task manager says:
Total 3037
Cached 979
Available 930
Free10
Was a long shot, but this sounds legit. Does the system still use IDE
drives? When, for some reason, the error rate of a device goes up the
IDE controllers used to switch from DMA
No, SATA drive, with Windows in C: drive part of the hard disk, and
everything else in D:
There are two external backup drives, but no lights flashing on those.
Long shot, I looked at the Indexing service, that says the indexing is
complete and it's only indexing D: drive plus the essentials
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
No, SATA drive, with Windows in C: drive part of the hard disk, and
everything else in D:
Okay, one more. Download and run the Process monitor tool from MS
and check if any application is generating lots of entries. This might
be a somewhat painful process on a thrashing
The ones generating most entries are:
AVGrsa.exe - presume a scan must be running even if I can't find or stop it
(scan settings are set to 'basic' for minimal interference when machine is
busy)
BackupNowEZ - my backup program which I have to use as the external drive is
over 2TB so M$
Svchost.exe is the Windows service host, you need this :)
Looks like it's the AVG antivirus acting up. How much free space do you
have on the drives?
On 9 Oct 2014 14:30, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
The ones generating most entries are:
AVGrsa.exe - presume a scan must be
Ok, so it's not a swap space issue then...
Maybe try using msconfig to stop any of the AVG files running at startup,
and see does it run any better when you restart? If you do that, disconnect
your internet access temporarily to avoid getting a virus in the interim.
Darren.
On 9 Oct 2014 14:47,
Wow... that is the weirdest thing I've ever heard...
I would suggest backing up everything while it's still running.. the anti
virus must have a real foothold on the system... disabling it restored the
system to a sort of default status with only one monitor.
If booting was so slow with it
Judging by the symptoms, you could try starting the PC up in safe mode
and see if it is any better...
However, I bet the lightning has caused damaged to a sector or two on
your main hard disk...
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-vista/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors
Rich
On
Yup, both excellent ideas...
Running CHKDSK or similar should help see if there is any damage at least.
On 9 Oct 2014 16:08, Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk wrote:
Judging by the symptoms, you could try starting the PC up in safe mode and
see if it is any better...
However, I bet the
IIRC, this is why I stopped using AVG originally. I switched to Microsoft
Security Essentials for a while (don't laugh) and had no problems at all
with it taking over the computer. I only switched back after it became a
laughing stock in the computer magazines.
I have tried other antiviruses
I ditched using AVG a few years ago too... I use avast and find it the best
if the freebie AV programs.
I would try Rich's suggestions and see how that goes.
Darren.
On 9 Oct 2014 16:13, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
IIRC, this is why I stopped using AVG originally. I
I have free AVG and had found that when it decided to do an update or scan my
machine my machine became almost comatose other than just lots of hard drive
noise. And of course the bigger the hard drive the longer it took. I went
into AVG and turned off all auto updates and scans and now my
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 04:09:24PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Backups - don't make me laugh. Windows backup won't work with 3TB drives,
NTIbackup seems to fail 2 days out of 7 regularly. I have no idea how
complete the backup is because of that and whether it catches up on the
weekend missed
Dilwyn,
If there was a thunderstorm then it's possible that you have a corrupt drive
and or RAM.
Given the symptoms you see I bet avg is corrupted.
Have you been able to run a full chkdsk in safe mode after start up.
Get hold of a mem tester too.
Linux works. I don't know anyone these days
Safe mode - hard disk activity down to a couple of flashes per second.
Error checks - scanned both c: and d: drives, no errors.
After all that, shut the PC down for a while (as opposed to restarting
Windows). Restarted. Back to continuous hard disk activity, unusably
sluggish, Windows does
Anything that involves relying on broadband is an absolute and total no-no
round here. Trust me, you'd have to live here to know what it's like. You'd
only have to listen to Rich explain about my experiences with our shared
Dropbox to know that cloud services are best left untouched around
Ah, while typing an email just now the problems suddenly stopped and the PC
seems to have reverted to normal (as normal as a PC ever gets I suppose).
No messages of any sort (e.g. updates downloaded, scans finished etc) so I
can only presume that a running scan or some such process has ended.
I hope Peter (vanpeebles on QL Forum) doesn’t mind me copying this here – I
thought it might be worth a try as I don’t know how many people get Forum
messages regarding the Online Chat in time, without logging in and searching
for them.
Peter says that the online chat for QL Forum members will
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
No messages of any sort (e.g. updates downloaded, scans finished etc) so I
can only presume that a running scan or some such process has ended. There
is still a little bit of hard disk activity, but the computer is now back to
normal in terms of usability.
Next guess:
Dilwyn, there are users outside of the usual locations of QL Forum
users. Like me, as an example?
When it will be? GST time, please? :)
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Well your broadband would be not used if you don't backup to their
servers :-) machine-machine or machine-HD is also supported!
Graeme
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 05:04:08PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Anything that involves relying on broadband is an absolute and total no-no
round here. Trust me,
We are actually already online.
irc.mibbit.net #qlforum
:-)
Graeme
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:26:18PM -0300, Alexandre Souza wrote:
Dilwyn, there are users outside of the usual locations of QL Forum
users. Like me, as an example?
When it will be? GST time, please? :)
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Guess I'm just fed up of trying everything and finding nothing that works.
Dilwyn
-Original Message-
From: Graeme Gregory
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 6:35 PM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues
Well your broadband would be not used if you don't backup to
U.K. is on 'summer time' at the moment which is GMT +1hr (like western
Europe I think). So 8pm UK time will be GMT 7pm (19:00 GMT).
I'm not too sure about Brazil - like some large countries I think you have
more than one time zone there?? Plus I don't know the dates of Summer Time
there.
Yay!! Good it's working again.
Next suggestion was insert pc into bin, and close lid. Proceed to use QL
instead... :-)
On 9 Oct 2014 19:02, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
Next guess: thermal problem. Modern CPUs throttle themselves when
getting too hot instead of simply
Strange...
Could be a hardware issue.
Another suggestion is that a software has a problem with some windows
components.
Try checking the System files using the command prompt:
sfc /scannow
And it is a very good idea to check the event log entries.
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Too easy, Darren.
Dilwyn
-Original Message-
From: Darren Branagh
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 7:34 PM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues
Yay!! Good it's working again.
Next suggestion was insert pc into bin, and close lid. Proceed to use QL
instead... :-)
On
Nice one Dilwyn, good to hear it's going fine again and you didn't have to
cross over to the dark side!
I agree in the helpful too, I've always found that here.
Cheers,
Norm.
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Tip for the future regarding your drives (i.e. don't trust chkdsk alone)
http://www.howtogeek.com/134735/how-to-see-if-your-hard-drive-is-dying/
This worked for me as I was having similar symptoms and chkdsk wasn't
reporting anything wrong. My drive was throwing lots of read errors and
this was
Dilwyn, which version of Windoze are you using, btw? Vista?
Per
On 9 October 2014 21:44, Mark Martin storycraf...@gmail.com wrote:
Tip for the future regarding your drives (i.e. don't trust chkdsk alone)
http://www.howtogeek.com/134735/how-to-see-if-your-hard-drive-is-dying/
This worked
Windoze 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Dilwyn
-Original Message-
From: Per Witte
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 9:07 PM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues
Dilwyn, which version of Windoze are you using, btw? Vista?
Per
On 9 October 2014 21:44, Mark Martin
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