comp extremly slow?

[muTe]

Hi,

Yesterday my comp crashed two times (2BSOD) one after the other. I'm using WinXP Pro. then my comp is SOOO slow I don't know why like I copy a file from one partition to another (it take about 30sec to open the copy box) then when it's at 5sec remainning it takes about 1min to finish. sometimes it's ok sometimes it's so slow I pushed the reset button once it was frozen like hell. any ideas?

Thanks
Dim3x

[bonzai]

Something could be eating alot of the processing power. Go to Task Manager and click on the 'Processes' tab. Look under the CPU column. See if you find anything that's taking a significant percentage of the CPU.

Also, could be that a fan may be dying out and ventilation is becoming poor. CPU heating up can result in significant slow downs as well as blue screens of death. That could explain the randomness that you describe.

[Cricket]

What were you doing prior to the BSOD's?

Do you remember what the BSOD error message said? Knowing this goes a long way to finding out what's going on with your system.

Try booting to Safe Mode and see if thing are slow there.

Any other symptoms?

Cricket

[muTe]

I was opening and closing counter-strike several times. then the BSOD appeared and said something about IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL or something similar. then when I tried to log on in my session it did a BSOD not specifiying any messages just the memory dump or something and thats all. it seems to do it randomly, can't find any program that can cause it. for now it "seems" ok. I'm using videomach and photoshop lately and it uses alot from my system... don't know. I will check everything.. thanks

[davehu]

Before the "BSOD" started to occur, did you install any new drivers or hardware into your machine?

Usually that kind of error is a "device or driver conflict issue".