Hello:
A few weeks back, I was playing in a game on my desktop and my graphics started chugging. I didn't think to much of it until my audio start popping and cracking. I figured the audio was causing the game to chug when activating certain game sounds or music.
I did the same for my audio drivers. I tried a few different drivers from third-party resources after the distro and manu ones failed.
This issue was happening on my XP machine on my C drive. I have 2 other drives (D and E) where I have Vista (32) and storage. I switched to my D drive where my Vista install is and noticed the sound was fixed and the same game did not chug. This only leaves me to believe it was still the driver or some other configuration issue but not the hard ware. I went on XP one last time to defrag the hard drive and then went fully on Vista until I figured it out.
The other day I was playing the same game and noticed my C drive had disappeared after I had closed it out. I restarted and jumped on XP to find that the entire system was moving super slow. It made me think the hard drive was going and maybe the audio issues were because of the system failing to read the file and playing it back correctly. I rebooted again and checked my bio to make sure everything was fine. Nothing changed there since I built the machine.
I moved onto Vista and noticed it starting to hang a little. The C drive was back but the entire system was getting slower. I figured it was trying to read the C drive because I did use some programs in my Vista install from my C drive (like firefox). 10 minutes in, my C drive disappears again and I rebooted once more. This repeated a few times where my BIOS see's all slaves, Vista shows all disks and then out of the blue the C drive vanishes failing to read.
I was trying to trouble shoot the issue by checking the net and then my wireless dropped. It's showing local only on an identified network. I connected my netbook to it to share the connection like I did before I got my wireless for my desktop and it worked for about 30 minutes. Then my netbook dropped to local only too. I eventually had my wife check it out because her netbook was connected to same router and had same wireless nic but was perfectly able to connect fine. Then eventually she dropped and I found out that the person owning the router is having issues just this morning. (mentioning only for reference in case of virus/trojan).
So my Vista was booting before where my XP (C Drive) was barely booting at all. Now my Vista (D Drive) is not booting (stuck at loading screen) where my XP (C Drive)is booting somewhat but still laggy. I'm able to move my files and degrag my other hard drives from XP (C Drive). On loading the defrag, I can see my D drive is about 40% fragmented files. I'm trying to correct those as we speak with a full avast anti-virus scan to follow.
Lag Conditions: Opening a directory will hang on reading. Displaying the shortcuts/icons will also lag on movement (rendering is slow).
My only thoughts is my C drive about to pop. My D drive still feels fine but my Vista installation is screwing up. It could becoming corrupted and that drive is about to pop too. It's hard to say right now but I can't get on the net, can't get on my vista, and my XP is moving dead slow but still allows me to do some diagnostics.
I'm going to wipe my C and D drive and install Windows 7 soon but does anyone have any clue just based on this information? It almost seems like a virus. I do have Avast running on both OS's but they might be sharing similar configurations in windows (also another reason why vista is screwing up). I've also uninstalled all my recent programs in XP to make sure it's not anything there.
A few weeks back, I was playing in a game on my desktop and my graphics started chugging. I didn't think to much of it until my audio start popping and cracking. I figured the audio was causing the game to chug when activating certain game sounds or music.
- I updated my GFX drivers from the distributor.
- I updated my GFX drivers from ATI when that failed.
- I uninstalled and reinstalled the original.
- I uninstalled and reinstalled an older version.
I did the same for my audio drivers. I tried a few different drivers from third-party resources after the distro and manu ones failed.
This issue was happening on my XP machine on my C drive. I have 2 other drives (D and E) where I have Vista (32) and storage. I switched to my D drive where my Vista install is and noticed the sound was fixed and the same game did not chug. This only leaves me to believe it was still the driver or some other configuration issue but not the hard ware. I went on XP one last time to defrag the hard drive and then went fully on Vista until I figured it out.
The other day I was playing the same game and noticed my C drive had disappeared after I had closed it out. I restarted and jumped on XP to find that the entire system was moving super slow. It made me think the hard drive was going and maybe the audio issues were because of the system failing to read the file and playing it back correctly. I rebooted again and checked my bio to make sure everything was fine. Nothing changed there since I built the machine.
I moved onto Vista and noticed it starting to hang a little. The C drive was back but the entire system was getting slower. I figured it was trying to read the C drive because I did use some programs in my Vista install from my C drive (like firefox). 10 minutes in, my C drive disappears again and I rebooted once more. This repeated a few times where my BIOS see's all slaves, Vista shows all disks and then out of the blue the C drive vanishes failing to read.
I was trying to trouble shoot the issue by checking the net and then my wireless dropped. It's showing local only on an identified network. I connected my netbook to it to share the connection like I did before I got my wireless for my desktop and it worked for about 30 minutes. Then my netbook dropped to local only too. I eventually had my wife check it out because her netbook was connected to same router and had same wireless nic but was perfectly able to connect fine. Then eventually she dropped and I found out that the person owning the router is having issues just this morning. (mentioning only for reference in case of virus/trojan).
So my Vista was booting before where my XP (C Drive) was barely booting at all. Now my Vista (D Drive) is not booting (stuck at loading screen) where my XP (C Drive)is booting somewhat but still laggy. I'm able to move my files and degrag my other hard drives from XP (C Drive). On loading the defrag, I can see my D drive is about 40% fragmented files. I'm trying to correct those as we speak with a full avast anti-virus scan to follow.
Lag Conditions: Opening a directory will hang on reading. Displaying the shortcuts/icons will also lag on movement (rendering is slow).
My only thoughts is my C drive about to pop. My D drive still feels fine but my Vista installation is screwing up. It could becoming corrupted and that drive is about to pop too. It's hard to say right now but I can't get on the net, can't get on my vista, and my XP is moving dead slow but still allows me to do some diagnostics.
I'm going to wipe my C and D drive and install Windows 7 soon but does anyone have any clue just based on this information? It almost seems like a virus. I do have Avast running on both OS's but they might be sharing similar configurations in windows (also another reason why vista is screwing up). I've also uninstalled all my recent programs in XP to make sure it's not anything there.