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Hard Disc Drive is running 20% slower?
Yea, I just got an HDD error... The HDD is running slower than it is supposed to...literally, as an recovery fixing program said. (not those things that pops while on certain sites... I'm not falling for these things) A window for error recovery automaticaly poped in. It fixed some things...but not the problems related to the slow running. (in the errors fixed:CPU heating up(for no reason), system32 error,...) Just before the error happened, some Trojans were caught by Mcafee (the anti-virus said it taken care of them) (And no, I didn't go watch porn...I watch it on my Ipod touch...) I'm currently doing some diagnostic things, in the Boot start-up menu. My tower PC is the "Dell Studio XPS"(I don't remember the numbers...but it's the Studio XPS with black face and top, white sides and red contoures...) The CPUs are i-7 930 or 920. Yea, so, I really wonder what I coupd do to fix the problem... With out losing about 700Gb of game, work and video data... Before I bought my PC, I read some reviews that said that people had some problems wih the PC... But I thought I wouldn't get it... I recieved my PC in March 2011, if I remember well...
stonent
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December 6th, 2011 22:00
Does it look anything like this?
I saw this running on a computer I was working with today. It had hidden all of his files, upon killing the process and unhiding everything I noticed his computer had a lot of files pictures and videos he had downloaded. A LOT...
He had a valid Mcafee installation and norton security scan, neither were finding this malware. I captured the file and sent it to Virustotal and had 19 hits, including Mcafee (and supposedly his definitions were up to date from what I could tell)
Poodleinacan
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December 4th, 2011 11:00
... I made paragraphes! Why isn't there any?
osprey4
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December 4th, 2011 13:00
Hi Poodleinacan,
First, back up your important files.
You haven't explained where you are seeing the error.
Poodleinacan
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December 4th, 2011 16:00
Ok, I saw some error pop-ups saying I have problems with a couple of System32 files (I just did an update...and it still says that).
And System Fix tells me that RAM is geting low on memory (but...I don't know how it can happen. I still have about 250Gb of free space on my HDD), CPU RAM is high temp (never happened to me while I was gaming), BOOT camp thing is damaged (I can start my PC ok, but the desktop is blank and only shows the Bin. Also, I can't see anything in the Start menu...but I can I can see almost all of my docs and stuff on my C driver (my keyboard has a button to access "My PC") and I can see my "Quick menu" program thing...)
Poodleinacan
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December 4th, 2011 16:00
PS: I can do some programing, if I need to... But I will need to know exactly what to do...
Poodleinacan
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December 4th, 2011 19:00
Ok, tomorrow at about 5, I will write down the file names (moment of message- 22:45).
Hmmm, Dell Diagnostics... Nope... Never heard of that...stonent
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December 4th, 2011 19:00
Really we need some specifics in order to help you, there's a few hundred files in the system32 directory so saying a "system32 error" doesn't mean much. Have you run Dell Diagnostics to confirm your computer is functioning correctly?
The fact that you said that your antivirus caught some things leads me to believe you are infected with something still.
stonent
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December 4th, 2011 22:00
support.dell.com/.../document
Poodleinacan
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December 5th, 2011 14:00
The System32 errors
000036f2
00002c77
0000e6f
00003776
0000296d
0000403b
000020bc
00007926
0000363d
000076eb
0000177d
00006635
000079a5
00003a2b
00006923
00002b0d
00007aa6
00004061
00007469
00001431
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I've got a friend at school, and he told me that maybe it could be that I've got a RAM "chip" that may have broke.
I'm wondering, if it is a RAM that broke... Is it covered by DELL? Can they replace it for free?(well, replace the broken RAM, with one I won't have to pay)osprey4
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December 5th, 2011 15:00
Hi Poodleinacan,
Ok, I'm going to recommend you perform a full set of tests using the Dell diagnostics. I've got the link below to the procedure. What you are going to do is boot your system, then tap F12 at the prompt and go to the Utility Partition. Run the full system diagnostics.
Write down EVERY ERROR you see, and which component it's associated with.
stonent
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December 5th, 2011 17:00
Looking like a virus to me. However I would still like a full diagnostic run.
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December 5th, 2011 21:00
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December 6th, 2011 08:00
You need to buy 2 new hard drives. 1 to image what you have now. 2 To do a clean install.
You then try to do F8 factory restore on the current drive If that does not work you can always reimage again from the 2nd drive. The 3rd drive you just use and put a different program on aka Microsoft Security Essentials instead of Mcafee which seems to be vulnerable to attack AND slows you down.
stonent
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December 6th, 2011 22:00
Meh double post.
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December 7th, 2011 05:00
Downloaded pictures and videos? Whatever of? :)