Erratic behaviour

umeshtangnu

hi
i have an intel p4 2.4ghz on a intel845g mother board running windows xp professional and Win978se as dual boot system
for some time it has been acting erratic .
It wont detect the primary hard disk .while working it suddenly crawls to stop and the amount of disk space it show is less than the disk space but when i join the hard disk to other systems there is no error ,i have tried changing the data cables and the power connectors but to no avail.

Also all mine games have stopped running in Xp the just crash the system or make the cpu utilization to 100%

can some body help me

S3nd K3ys

Virus probably. Or a full disk.

jwellsy

Blow the dust bunnies out of the inside of the case.

Verify that all large and small fans are operating,
including the fans inside the Power Supply Unit.

Try to see how much fluctuation is in the PSU voltages.

A weak or failing PSU can do some crazy things.

tommyjordache

Did you perform a full defrag and chkdsk already ?

cheers
tom

umeshtangnu

Thanks for the advise it was dust that was playing the spoil-sport