Topic: So slow

[Sandra]

A couple of runs should be ok, doesnt it do about 11 different tests and then keep running until you tell it to stop ?
Not used it for a long time.

[gmax]

Test overnight (your computer's not doing anything else at night anyway, why not be absolutely sure your RAM is good? )

[davy51]

i use everest for most of my testing it seems to do a decent job

it can benchmark most of the system


if you look around the net you can get it for free

http://www.lavalys.com/

[Argee]

I bit the bullet, formatted and did a clean install. All back to normal speed so far. Thanks for all the suggestions - much appreciated.

Ray.

[Simon]

It's a shame we never found out what it was, but good to hear everything is back to normal, Ray.

[Argee]

The problem returned after eight days, but this time accompanied by the sort of "click" that occurs during start-up, followed by the sound of one of the two SATA drives spinning up.

A little more digging and I was fairly sure that I either had a faulty MB or an intermittent power supply. I'd not had a SATA power cable problem before, but there's always a first time. I've now replaced the PS (500W) and haven't had a problem so far.

Ray.