General PC Questions
- Thread starter Turbo Lag
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- Paganisterr
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It'll run XP fine... just don't do anything like having lots and lots of programs running at once - it'll slow it down a bit (not as if you're not used to it anyway)...
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- MuzaffarMusa
Get a new PC then. There is no point of repairing it if its just too much trouble. But if you insist of repairing it, don't bother trying to transfer your files. It will just makes the PC lag again (or make problems) once you repaired it. Just try to remove many of your unimportant files from your PC as well as removing any unused softwares. If the problem still persist, well just send the PC to a shop and see whats the problem.
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- MuzaffarMusa
*sigh..... I got my Top Gear episodes corrupted
*But yeah, you can do that, but a word of warning. I don't know much about reformatting the C drive, but shouldn't the Windows file gets erased as well? But if you think this would solve your problem, then just do it. You won't regret it if your PC won't start back again..... 👍
- 1,395
It sounds to me like you have a really bad virus running in your computer. Back up any pic's, video, word documents and then install a fresh version of windows. Should get rid of all your problems. Remember you will need all the drivers for the motherboard like USB, raid if use it, and other peripherals.
Turbo Lag
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May I say bowled?*sigh..... I got my Top Gear episodes corrupted
But honestly I have no idea how to format a computer lol. Or reinstall for that matter.
If it is a bad virus, wont my Norton AV pick it up sooner or later? I always do a scan every Friday night, and ive only got rid of maybe 4 or so virusus.
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- GTP_Jondot
May I say bowled?
But honestly I have no idea how to format a computer lol. Or reinstall for that matter.
Well, y'know, a degree of logical thought wouldn't go amiss here. That Windows CD isn't there to collect dust, and Google does more than just locate porn.
Nonetheless... Assuming your PC doesn't have a shortcut key for a choice of boot options, you'll have to enter the BIOS and do a bit of...rearranging. Basically hit del or whatever the shortcut is for you and enter the BIOS (it'll say press del to enter setup or whatever). Can't quite remember the ins and outs of it, but basically once you're in, you re-arrange the order of which component it tries to boot from first (floppy disk, CD drive, Hard drive etc). Stick CD drive at the top, then hit escape and press Y to save. Oh and make sure you've actually got the Windows disk in - that's probably a good idea. Then just follow Windows's menu thing, and select the one that's NOT repair. It'll basically format and reinstall (taking years, probably), and voila.
- 1,395
It might if your computer was working and its not. A friend of my wife has an AMD system that was giving her trouble and asked me to look at it. She had a bad stick of ram, a bad ram slot but worst of all there was a virus that would show up in the task manager every once in a while but the computer was soooooo slow I couldn't get rid of it. Now it just sits because she doesn't have the original XP disks that cam with the computer. There's a reason why to keep those install disks that come with a new computer.May I say bowled?
But honestly I have no idea how to format a computer lol. Or reinstall for that matter.
If it is a bad virus, wont my Norton AV pick it up sooner or later? I always do a scan every Friday night, and ive only got rid of maybe 4 or so virusus.
