Testing Cpu's
 

Anyone know how to do this? Something is weighing my system down. system monitors show memory usage is low so its got to be something else... Compaq is 2 years old but still....


Kgaul

If you're running Win9x then you prolly just need to do a fresh OS reinstall. I used to do an OS reinstall every 4-6 months when I ran win95/98/ME

wow i just (5 weeks ago) did a factory reinstall from the crash disk. I'm thinking its decaying hardware... This is no where near as fast as it was before.

Thanks for your help



Kgaul

2k/2k3 are the only real windows os's... use one of those 2.. =)

You guys are convinced its my os? I'm pretty happy with xp i just thiknk i'm over taxing this comp...

VS 6 .net
wintv
adobie golive
mysql
mysqlcc
world.exe
zone.exe (12)
autodesk
ect.....


well the comp i'm building for the zones is massive, i shouldn't have any probs...


Thanks,
Kgaul


(PS anyone know how to test the cpu? hehe)

I think the freeware version of SiSoft Sandra will benchmark your CPU ...


http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/

In XP, hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE and click on 'Processes' and then click on the 'CPU' column to see which process is using the most processor time.

thanks sir!

Kgaul

I don't know... My girlfriend had a dying Windows laptop. I installed Slackware linux on it, and it takes FOREVER just to boot up. I think the memory is defective, or that there's not enough to run anything.

Might be a virus... Some viruses can mask the resources they use... And just bog down your system resources...

how do you find those? i log onto Mcafee website to have them scan my system...


Kgaul

Yeah it a good idea to check for viruses, heres a good freeby scanner by Macafee

vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

or just look for 'stinger virus' on google

:(

Found the W32/Lovsan.worm. a virus !!!

C:\WINDOWS\System32\msblast.exe has been deleted



Sigh.

thanks for the help guys.


Kgual

hehe you need to update your windows, they put the fix for that out months ago, if you had it it deleted it, if you didnt it made it so you couldnt get it. Hense you need to update.

I am amazed your computer survived this long with said worm and virus in your computer...

You should keep it and put it out to pasture... It has won a war!

holy sh*t, i am running the stinger thingy and its finding tons of things broken, some of them its fixing and some its not. what do i do? there all called the pate.b.dll virus