Any ideas..Optiplex GX150 slow and freezing up occasionally....

Here is my situation...

Have a GX150 running win2k. It freezes up occasionally and stalls a lot. Recently, trying to get into the Printers folder freezes it up good and all the apps say there are no printers availiable. not sure what happened.....

i have read many posts saying the hard drive is possibly going out, so I will check into that.....

Its going to be hard to trouble shoot since there has been a bunch of software installed and removed and strange things have gone on since before I got involved...

its running bios A06, if that helps...


its probably going to get new hard drive and XP, but just wondering if anyone had any ideas.......

Lots of ideas.

http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=57348

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MobileP types faster than I do.

probably should have mentioned that the virus and spyware software is up to date and functioning...

also ran a checkdisk and defrag...but i need to run the drive maker diagnostics on the hard drive.

i support this office and this computer has always had issues so it may be time to stop bandaging the problem and just reload and get up to date. i was not the initial tech in here so its hard to figure out what was done and I don't think maintenance was performed regularly....

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Originally Posted by mattyx

probably should have mentioned that the virus and spyware software is up to date and functioning...

also ran a checkdisk and defrag...but i need to run the drive maker diagnostics on the hard drive.

i support this office and this computer has always had issues so it may be time to stop bandaging the problem and just reload and get up to date. i was not the initial tech in here so its hard to figure out what was done and I don't think maintenance was performed regularly....

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Have you tried running sfc?

no, suppose i could do a repair in place also.....after a backup.....

I am thinking the hard drive is dying though....i think my plan will be to throw a new HD in there and put a clean XP on and if problems go away these two upgrades will be performed...needs to be done anyway....

Other things to consider

dying ram stick
printer problem/printer cable problem
acpi issues/irq sharing issues