If safe mode isn't helping any then it isn't a driver issue. I have seen this type of slowdown on many occasions, and it is usually from 3 things.
1) I did this to my machine, somehow I fuxored up my system when messing around with the shell. Easy fix, just changed my shell back to explorer.exe - even though it took me like a half hour of waiting. But, you weren't messing with that so...
2) Driver problem. Again, safe mode would remedy this.
3) Bad hard drive
I took a look at hp's site but can't seem to find anything of use. When I have more time i'll take another look.
If you boot with the xp cd and launch the recovery console you can run a chkdsk from the command prompt (chkdsk c:)
I would try that first...I suppose it's possible your file system could have gotten messed up somehow but that usually stops the computer from booting at all. Worth a shot though. If ya had a dell I could help you more, I am more familiar with their built in diagnostics. Sorry.
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Hard drive is maybe half full. Could it really be the video card? It worked fine for over a week. Safe mode doesn't seem to speed anything up either. Thanks for everyone trying to help.
