Any Idea why this happens in XP

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I start up my PC all of a sudden it takes forever to boot up XP the bar stops then starts again. Eventually when the startup commences the welcome tone is garbled and sounds all sratchy, it happens through earphones as well.
Also when trying to view videos or playing anything with sound it garbles first then normalizes.

I had to re-install XP to remedy it after uninstalling 90% of programs :mad:

Anyone know the cause of this?
 
Windows xp gone crazy :)

Windows you cannot explain, you just reinstall and don't think about it again :p unless the new install does not work.
 
There might be some service or driver that causes the problem. Firstly check out the event viewer in the computer management console. (Right click My Computer - Manage - Event viewer) to see if you can find any clue to the problem.

Otherwise you could disable the sound driver to see if the slow start-up is repeated.

If this behaviour still persists I would suggest using msconfig disable the services and then enable them one by one until you've found the one causing the problem.

Achmat_Samsodien said:
I start up my PC all of a sudden it takes forever to boot up XP the bar stops then starts again. Eventually when the startup commences the welcome tone is garbled and sounds all sratchy, it happens through earphones as well.
Also when trying to view videos or playing anything with sound it garbles first then normalizes.

I had to re-install XP to remedy it after uninstalling 90% of programs :mad:

Anyone know the cause of this?
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Maybe it's a cry from your computer to burn Windows and to install Linux instead?
 
Maybe there's something wrong with your sound device?

Are you using a 3rd party soundcard or your motherboards' onboard sound? In either case, it could be damaged. Faulty hardware does affect load times, too.
 
Aint the soundcard cause the thing works perfect once again after the re-install.

I've had it up to my eyeballs in windows I wanna do linux my needs are very simple, media sharing and media playing that's about it oh and surfing the internet. Whats the best variation of Linux that you guys recommend cause I'm thinking of using windows virtually through linux, I can't anymore with this piece of K@K windows.
 
Had the same issue and then I discovered 3 problems:

#1 I had a broken IDE drive that messing up my boards performace (Dud MAXTOR). I saw this a lot in my PC Tech days. You don't need power to the drive, just plugged into a IDE cable for it to go screwy ... !!!

#2 My SATA cable was faulty.

#3 After a re-install I forgot to install my SATA drivers. Only after 3 weeks and nearly throwing my drive in the bin did I install the drivers and problem resolved.

I have a Samsung SATA and the Maxtor had managed to make my board corrupt my SATA drive - strange but true. Using the SAMSUNG utility, I did checks, picked up errors and then factory formatted. Now she flies ....
 
As cbrunsdonza said - check that your hard drive is connected properly. Obtain the manufacturer's test utility to see if your hard drive is developing bad sectors.

If you've got an unformatted partition, format it as I also had the same issues with an unformatted partition.
 
Achmat_Samsodien said:
I've had it up to my eyeballs in windows I wanna do linux my needs are very simple, media sharing and media playing that's about it oh and surfing the internet. Whats the best variation of Linux that you guys recommend cause I'm thinking of using windows virtually through linux, I can't anymore with this piece of K@K windows.
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For your needs, i reccomend a dose of Ubuntu :) can do everything you require and a whole lot more. :rolleyes:

Drop us a thread in the Linux section with your questions, before the Windows fanboys get all insecure about themselves ;)
 
Err .. I'm not so sure about Ubuntu. And before I get a bunch of penguiphiles all over me, I've used every distro from 6.10 to 8.04, Gnome and KDE, as well as openSUSE and DSL. I'm not Windows biased.

Ubuntu tries to be an everything-in-one solution, which is great. What's not so great is the fact that there are so many developers work on it. Too many cooks?

Ubuntu also doesn't come out-the-box ready to handle whatever you wish to throw at it. The first thing you're gonna need to do before you can handle _any_ media (apart from OGG), is install the restricted-extras package, which is a tidy few MBs. And then, given the constantly-in-beta nature of the software you'll be using, you can expect the odd, inexplicable crash.

Ubuntu also comes preinstalled with a tremendous amount of crap you don't need. Like OpenOffice (WTF), two media players (wtf), 25-odd window styles (wtf), drivers and support software for just about every device (wtf), whether or not you have, will get, or in fact will ever need them (wtf).

Then it has issues with multi-monitor, wireless networking, and (from my own experience), repository-based software. Yes, apt-get is automagic and wonderful, and on more than one occasion, has completely failed to install anything properly for me. The only things I managed to actually get working were the restricted-extras and wine. The rest cost me dear headaches.

So dude, running to Linux isn't an option if "all you want is a simple OS". I've been down that road three times now, and every time, I come back to Windows, for two simple reasons - 1. It works, and 2. It does what I need it to do.

Use it, don't use it. Your headache at stake.
 
Wogan said:
Ubuntu tries to be an everything-in-one solution, which is great. What's not so great is the fact that there are so many developers work on it. Too many cooks?
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Uh excuse me? Its not an everything in one solution?
Wogan said:
Ubuntu also doesn't come out-the-box ready to handle whatever you wish to throw at it. The first thing you're gonna need to do before you can handle _any_ media (apart from OGG), is install the restricted-extras package, which is a tidy few MBs. And then, given the constantly-in-beta nature of the software you'll be using, you can expect the odd, inexplicable crash.
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Or you could just install the gstreamer packages, = just codecs, not all the fonts, java etc that comes in that restricted-extra's package.
None of the software is "in-beta" in 8.04 all the software that is included is a stable version, there is nothing bleeding edge about the software that is installed. From personal experience, and I've been using Ubuntu since 6.06, I've hardly ever had software problems, and the times that I did have, was when I was compiling from source - then the software would randomly crash.
Wogan said:
Ubuntu also comes preinstalled with a tremendous amount of crap you don't need. Like OpenOffice (WTF), two media players (wtf), 25-odd window styles (wtf), drivers and support software for just about every device (wtf), whether or not you have, will get, or in fact will ever need them (wtf).
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Uh, whats wrong with Open Office? Being a student I can't afford to buy MS Office and as such Open Office is a godsend. Its nearly as good as MS Office, can do everything a general user requires, and its OSS and free. The two media players you speak of? Rhythmbox and Totem? They perform two different tasks. Whats wrong with 25 window styles? Too much choice for someone who is used to the 3 you get with XP? All the drivers you complain about means that Ubuntu will work on just about any hardware - right out of the box. Not like window where one has to spend ages installing software and drivers after installing the OS.
Wogan said:
Then it has issues with multi-monitor, wireless networking, and (from my own experience), repository-based software. Yes, apt-get is automagic and wonderful, and on more than one occasion, has completely failed to install anything properly for me. The only things I managed to actually get working were the restricted-extras and wine. The rest cost me dear headaches.
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It sounds like Linux has given you nothing but headaches, but it is really not that hard to use.
Wogan said:
So dude, running to Linux isn't an option if "all you want is a simple OS". I've been down that road three times now, and every time, I come back to Windows, for two simple reasons - 1. It works, and 2. It does what I need it to do.
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Linux also just works - in my experience better than Windows. 2 - Linux does what I need to do without the hassles that Windows gives me.

Sorry for the thread derail.
 
why cant everyone just use both if they want/need to and stop complaining bout the strengths and weaknesses of either (something which, inevitably, every OS has and it's never gonna change). . .

idiots said:
nooooo! arguing is too much fun:D
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(however pointless it may be)
 
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