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« on: July 25, 2011, 01:14:00 PM » |
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Hello,
I have an older P4 that is passing all the tests but it is very slow at each and every test. It took about 1 hour to perform the basic motherboard tests (option 1). What could cause this?
Thanks
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fwilson
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« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2011, 01:28:48 PM » |
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rhrtech, The only thing that comes to mind is a heat issue throttling the CPU.  -Fred |
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rhrtech
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« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2011, 02:40:09 PM » |
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Yup, I thought that could be it. I applied thermal grease compound and it is still very slow. When I first got it in, it was not booting. It is on the extended hard drive test now, it does a sector and then it stops, then it does another sector. Very puzzling.
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« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2011, 02:56:10 PM » |
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rhrtech,
Hmmmm, I'd try unplugging all add on cards and devices, just have the bare essentials and see if that improves things.
Once, long ago I had a modem that would slow systems to a crawl. I could only guess it was flooding the bus with IRQs, much like a flapping network card can slow an ethernet network to a crawl.
-Fred
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rhrtech
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« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2011, 04:21:49 PM » |
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Hello,
Yup, I have the bare essentials, CD-Rom, CPU, one memory stick. I do not know what else to try.
Thanks for your help!
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fwilson
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« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2011, 04:46:42 PM » |
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rhrtech, Try removing the CD-Rom and Hard Drive and booting to DOS from the USB Key. -Fred |
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rhrtech
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« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2011, 09:27:26 AM » |
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I got it! It was a USB issue. I was using a KVM USB switch for the keyboard, mouse and vga. I removed it and plugged in a PS/2 keyboard.
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« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2011, 09:31:07 AM » |
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rhrtech, Good Catch.  -Fred |
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