PC is lagging,dont know why

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kronoSX

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I have a triple boot vista ultimate/xpmediacenter/xpmediacentre,all on 3 different hdd's.
I boot into vista and all is fine no problems,i boot into xpmediacentre no problem,i boot into xpmediacentre2 and i am having lagging issues.
This never happened before and i am stumped.
This is what is happening now when anything loads like a program for player my mouse pointer stutters alot and also it takes a long time to boot up xp..a minute longer than all the other OS's.

I checked the hdd for errors/defraged/ran a smart scan/checked for viruses but nothing seems out of the ordinary.This i am confused about.
Last night i tried playing prison break and when i dragged the file over to the media player classic,the pc just switched off i got the nosignal display on the monitor...I tried rebooting but nothing happened,the hdd light stayed on.

I then unplugged the ac for 30 seconds plugged the hdd drive power out and in again and restarted,It started fine again but still lagging as if the processor is working overtime....is this the first sign of hdd faliure:mad:
 
lagging? ok - check your system resources, if something is hogging your CPU.

If there is, and it's spoolsv.exe, then you need to clean out your corrupt spooling files. (think its win\system32\spool\printers\ or something like that.)
 
Keeper said:
lagging? ok - check your system resources, if something is hogging your CPU.

If there is, and it's spoolsv.exe, then you need to clean out your corrupt spooling files. (think its win\system32\spool\printers\ or something like that.)
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I disabled the spooler service 2 months ago,So its not that,I also checked for a program hogging the cpu..i found nothing,in a a idle state nothing uses the second core but the graph spikes a bit on the first core...which is normal:D
 
QX6700RULZ said:
Either that or psu failure :(
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A faulty psu can lag my system.I hate stripping everything down to find this problem...what is strange is this all happened after i tried to load a saved game from bioshock and it said that a file is corrupted and cant load,after that the mouse cursor in bioshock disappeared and i had to end the program:o.
mmmmm i wonder if i should uninstall bioshock to check:(
 
I had a similar type of problem a while back where my PC would just re-boot by itself and the mouse pointer also stuttered....

It turned out to be dust in the PCI-express slot that was doing it,... of all things....:confused:
 
Stuttering could also be a driver issue. I would reinstall the mobo drivers first and make sure all chip set drivers are installed correctly before doing anything else. That stuttering is a indicative of a communication error somewhere on your setup seeing as the other OS installations work fine. As was mentioned before, the drive could have issues but if you are pretty sure hardware isn't the problem then hunt down little driver devils.

This can happen even if it worked fine for a bit.
 
If it's the hard drive, it may be one more to add to the "dead hard drive month" lol. I hope it's not that, and that it's something else.

Good luck, and let us know what, if any, the solution is
 
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