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Well the full title should be something like:

  • slow - all applications will take for ever to load.
  • unresponsive at times (pressing `ALT+CTRL+DEL1 sometimes does not bring up the blue screen from which I can open the system manager - and posts an error message about being unable to respond to the ALT-CTRL-DEL request!)
  • sometimes after rebooting only a black background and the mouse pointer will show up.

This happened today. yesterday things worked fine. and I am not sure what could be wrong.

what I have tried (And has failed):

  • removed all usb devices -apart from kb and mouse- attached on the pc and did a power cycle (power off , then on).
  • unplugged internal SATA cable from both ends and RAM DIMMS and replugged them.
  • did a restore point to a date last week, when everything was fine.
  • tried to both in safe mode but even in safe mode booting is SLOW.

I really do not know what to make of this. The whole PC is not very old - approximately 1 year old. What could be wrong here?

Also, if I am to check the event viewer which parts should I pay attention to? I ask because I have never needed and never used the event viewer before. Thank you.

nass
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First, check the cooling. Second - use a LiveFS CD of a linux and do full memtest. If it's still no sign of problem - check your cables and disk. I'd recommend to use Ashampoo HDD Control 3 under Windows 7 64bit - I'm using it myself.

Alexey Vesnin
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