All of a sudden my computer seems to run like shit flowing uphill. Just sits here going no place fast, but making a big stink - i.e. - painfully slow.
I swapped out the main drive and put another drive with XP on in the hot swap tray - though I brought the machine down of course during the swap. But that way, I know it is not something I installed that screwed things up. The initial drive with XP on is totally removed from the system. Prior to this, I had been having intermittent problems with a drive and then the floppy. Moved those to a different connector from the power supply and those seem to be o.k. right now. I also replaced the drive cables, etc at the same time, so I cannot be TOTTALLY satisfied that it is one device over another right now. The system itself is a SuperMicro motherboard X6DAE-G2, with 2 @ 2.8 Xeon processors and 2 GHz of memory. I have unplugged the majority of my USB devices to make sure it wasn't a device going wacko. I have un-installed all programs such as Nero, magic ISO, etc, which have device drivers that may be the issue. Both versions of WinXP (on different drives) reported no problems under system (i.e., no conflicts) I have checked out the power supply with the little tester made by CoolMax and that reported no problems. Under the bios I check the voltages and this is what I show for my Enermax 651 VCoreA 1.240 VcoreB 1.360 P3V3 3.408 P5V 5.211 N12V -12.834 P12V 12.034 Vdd 5.136 P5Vsb 5.112 Now the N12V seems particularly high, but a number a high, just not as much. Replacing a Power Supply is probably $150 to $200 proposition and right now it is not a good time, but if it necessary then... It seems that the only other thing it could be would be the motherboard. Anyway your thoughts/suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks
