CPU is running at 100%, help

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I have a two year old Dell running Win XP PRO.
The computer is running very very slow, CPU is always at 100%, and the
computer creates 2000MBs of virtual memory.
MacAfee anti-virus expired two months ago.
Tried a recovery install, after 5 hours still would not finish reloading.
Tried wiping hard drive, even removed Dells EISA boot partition.
So with a fresh primary partition, tried reinstalling again,
still would not finish installing after 3 hoursAny ideas ?

 

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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:43:27 GMT, "Tod" <no_spam_me@comcast.net> wrote:

sounds like a dying hard drive.
when did you last do a full check of the hard drive?

>I have a two year old Dell running Win XP PRO.
>The computer is running very very slow, CPU is always at 100%, and the
>computer creates 2000MBs of virtual memory.
>MacAfee anti-virus expired two months ago.
>Tried a recovery install, after 5 hours still would not finish reloading.
>Tried wiping hard drive, even removed Dells EISA boot partition.
>So with a fresh primary partition, tried reinstalling again,
>still would not finish installing after 3 hoursAny ideas ?
>
>

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Installed the hard drive as a 2nd in my other computer.
Removed all partitions, made one single partition and reformatted twice, no
problem there.

"Husky" <cbminfo@toast.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:43:27 GMT, "Tod" <no_spam_me@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> sounds like a dying hard drive.
> when did you last do a full check of the hard drive?
>
>>I have a two year old Dell running Win XP PRO.
>>The computer is running very very slow, CPU is always at 100%, and the
>>computer creates 2000MBs of virtual memory.
>>MacAfee anti-virus expired two months ago.
>>Tried a recovery install, after 5 hours still would not finish reloading.
>>Tried wiping hard drive, even removed Dells EISA boot partition.
>>So with a fresh primary partition, tried reinstalling again,
>>still would not finish installing after 3 hoursAny ideas ?
>>
>>
>
> --
> more pix @ http://members.toast.net/cbminfo/index.html
>