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Dude... Although it is possible that your HDD is crapping out, I'd try disabling all of your startup apps, and I'm not only talking about your startup folder. There is a utility called startup.cpl ( http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/7/13-7-9.shtml ) run it and disable everything. If it solves your issue go back and restore one item at a time till you find the app. I'd also go into your BIOS or Hardware setup page (del or F2 after power up) and reset to defaults with the new card removed from the PC. Did your machine come with onboard video? If you are adding a AGP/PCI card to a machine with shared video, you might have to disable that controler in the BIOS. This sounds more like a software/config issue than hardware. Good Luck! j.
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Nope, not a demo. It specifically says in the instructions that it does not come with a disc because HP thought their POS hard drive wouldn't fail. 
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Again, if this were the problem, going into safe mode would remedy it. Originally posted by touredon:
Dude...
Although it is possible that your HDD is crapping out, I'd try disabling all of your startup apps, and I'm not only talking about your startup folder.
There is a utility called startup.cpl ( http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/7/13-7-9.shtml )
run it and disable everything. If it solves your issue go back and restore one item at a time till you find the app.
I'd also go into your BIOS or Hardware setup page (del or F2 after power up) and reset to defaults with the new card removed from the PC.
Did your machine come with onboard video? If you are adding a AGP/PCI card to a machine with shared video, you might have to disable that controler in the BIOS.
This sounds more like a software/config issue than hardware.
Good Luck!
j.
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Originally posted by TheGreatOne:
Again, if this were the problem, going into safe mode would remedy it.
Originally posted by touredon:
Dude...
Although it is possible that your HDD is crapping out, I'd try disabling all of your startup apps, and I'm not only talking about your startup folder.
There is a utility called startup.cpl ( http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/7/13-7-9.shtml )
run it and disable everything. If it solves your issue go back and restore one item at a time till you find the app.
I'd also go into your BIOS or Hardware setup page (del or F2 after power up) and reset to defaults with the new card removed from the PC.
Did your machine come with onboard video? If you are adding a AGP/PCI card to a machine with shared video, you might have to disable that controler in the BIOS.
This sounds more like a software/config issue than hardware.
Good Luck!
j.
Safe mode itself takes a long time to boot! Upwards of 5 minutes sometimes. Even on a healthy system.
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I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment
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labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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I don't think it's software,etc. after doing a full system restore... I'm not proficient enough with computers to know for sure that it's the hard drive, but seeing as it just started going real slow, even from startup, I figure it is a hardware problem. Safe mode, a system restore to 20 days ago, and then a full system restore didn't fix it. I may try switching hard drives from the old computer I have to the newer one, and see what happens. I've had all sorts of software/os/ even motherboard problems on another computer, and the computer never went that slow, so it probably is the hard drive.
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IMO swapping your hard drive isn't going to pinpoint anything. You'll be switching OS's and all. If you are still seeing your task manager process running at 80% then stop that process in your task manager. It will shut itself after warning you about instability etc... That should tell you if it's software related. If there are any other processes using up a lot of resources stop them too. It's the first step to finding out what's causing the problem. The only thing in my process list that takes anything over about 5% at idle is the system idle process.
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So I should stop task manager by using task manager? Well, anyways,, I did a full restore, even worse now. It won't even boot up, it gets to a screen saying something about a password and restarts over and over, and does this all very slowly. I'm sure it's the hard drive. Perry showed me a thing about HP replacing hard drives, though mine isn't covered,, I'm sure it's got the exact same problem though, but it's just one of those things where my model number got passed over. Needless to say, I'm pretty unimpressed with HP's products and service.
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Well, I just pulled the HD and it's not even the same brand as the affected HDs, but I also talked to someone tonite that said they had their HP's HD go out in 2 years and it wasn't one of the affected ones either,,, I think HP must rig HDs to fail after 2 years. Any place I can take my HD to that could test it to see if it really is bad?
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96 ATX Zetec (i brake to watch you swerve)
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Disconnect everything except your hard drive.
That means floppy, cd, any modem, network card, video card(if you have onboard video use that, otherwise you'll ahve to leave that one).
Go into BIOS and load failsafe settings.
Put your Harddrive from your old computer in and boot off of it.
Hopefully it boots and runs fine. If it is extremely slow too then it is something on the mainboard.
Connect all devices back up, might want to do it one by one to see if one of them is the problem.
If this all works then you will know the problem is either a bad hard drive, or something bad going on on that harddrive. So at this point you would want to repartition, format and do a clean install on your old HD. And if it's still like that then your harddrive is toast, so just buy a new one.
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Well, I just pulled the HD and it's not even the same brand as the affected HDs, but I also talked to someone tonite that said they had their HP's HD go out in 2 years and it wasn't one of the affected ones either,,, I think HP must rig HDs to fail after 2 years. Any place I can take my HD to that could test it to see if it really is bad?
Put that HD in a good computer and see what it does. I don't think XP will run on 200mhz unfortunately. I want to say you could put that hd in your old computer, but stil boot from your old HD, and try to see if you can read the information off of the bad HD or if it takes a lot of time to transfer data off of it, but I'm not sure a Win9x system will be able to read off an NTFS formatted hard drive.
I live in Detroit, I couldn't give a **** how good my car is in the "twisties."
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