My Specs are
Processor: Athlon 1800+(1.54MHZ)
Ram: 785MB RaM 333DDR
Video Card: Asylum Gforce fx5200(128 MB ram)
Sound Card: Sound blaster live!
HardDrive: 74.5GB
MotherBoard: KT333 Dragon Lite

if you need to know anything else just ask

Roghto then. Here's the hardware issues I can think of:

Has a change been made that's reset the clockspeed of your processor's front side bus? The setting should be 133MHz, to give a 266MHz fsb speed. If it's been reset to 100MHz, then yout processor will be performing nearly as bad as a Duron.

Did you set your RAM to run at a suitable speed? Ideally, you should have all RAM running at 266MHz, to match your front side bus speed, and have things running 'in sync'. If you have your RAM set faster, it can actually slow your system down.

Is the slowdown continual and permanent? If your system starts fine, then slows down and cradhes after a bit of use, that could indicate an overheating problem.

There are no other issues than these, for hardware, that I can think of which would cause a permanent and pervasive system slowdown. As I've said, I believe your problem is software related, and you should look at what you have installed, remove anything you dan't need or use, and attend to adequate system maintenance (as you've said you've done). Make sure you don't have multiple 'system tweaking' and 'troubleshooting' software programs installed. Apart from having a couple of utilities for spyware/malware detection and removal, having multiple instaces of system utilities is one of the worst things you can do to your system.


If you've eliminated all the stuff in that outline as potential causes, perhaps you should try a format/install to freshen things up and get your Windows installation working smoothly again.

run an anti-spy software like SPYBOT.

Well, I feel i have tried everything to my knowlage, but apprently I have goback (wish i relized this before). But before i go back like a month, will this change alot of drastic things like my nortan version, major programs i have installed, and the problem that might be software related?

By the way thank you all for posting ur ideas

Using a Tool such as GoBack would certainly disable access to recently added programs etc.

A point to consider, that hasn't been mentioned before, is that perhaps you should consider backing up all your data, and performing a clean install of your system. It's an unpopular suggestion to make, but when someone wishes to maintain peak performance for games, particularly with a budget range display card such as the one you have, regular format/installs can be a wise procedure to follow.

Hmm, sadly goback doesnt havge a saved point a long time back so i cant revert far enough.

I guess the problem must be software related but i dont know anything about cleaning my system and backup up my data do you know where i could find information on this catwealze?

New problem that I think might be related to this one. I just recently got a new motherboard and processor and replaced them with my old ones.

Motherboard- ASUS A7N8X-X
Processor- Athlon 2800XP

When it starts the first windows load up screen (not the dos looking one) I load it a bit then the screen turns blue and i get a message that says "Inacessable_boot_device" then it says

"If this is the first time you have seen this error mesage restart your computer. If this happens repeatidly follow the steps:

Remove any newly added hard drives. Make sure your harddrive is configured and terminated correctly. Check your hard drive for viruses. Run Chkdsk through floppy disk."

The message did appear repeaidly and I checked the wiring. I'm not sure if this happens becuase somthing I dont know about or becuase of the problem i was having with my harddrive before. If you believe this is related to my current problem then please let me know.

That happens, I'm afraid, because Windows XP isn't designed to handle a motherboard upgrade. The Product activation checking is kicking in, failing to recognise the hardware in place (a motherboard change is equivalent to quite a number of component changes) and stopping your Windows installation from being able to Boot up.

There are ways to get around it, but now that you've allowed the system to attempt booting into Windows, it's likely to be a difficult and perhaps impossible job.

The best answer to your dilemma, by far, is to Boot from your Windows CD, and install again fresh and new. A repair install may correct it, and is worth trying, but there's no guarantees.