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  1. February 10th, 2005, 06:52 PM #1
    mattyx
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    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.......
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  2. February 11th, 2005, 12:08 AM #2
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    Lots of ideas.

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

    Start there. Then let us know how you made out.
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  3. February 11th, 2005, 12:16 AM #3
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  4. February 11th, 2005, 11:36 AM #4
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    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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  5. February 11th, 2005, 02:25 PM #5
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    Quote 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....
    Have you tried running sfc?
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  6. February 11th, 2005, 02:45 PM #6
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    no, suppose i could do a repair in place also.....after a backup.....
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  7. February 11th, 2005, 02:48 PM #7
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    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....
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  8. February 11th, 2005, 04:20 PM #8
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    Other things to consider

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    acpi issues/irq sharing issues
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