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Boot up has greatly slowed down
After uninstalling McAfee Internet Security 6.0 my boot up has slowed to a crawl, this was after it incorrectly reported my cpu as 1300 not the 3000 it is. I updated the bios which corrected this but not the slow speed, I have tried changing the bios settings (inc fail safe) but no joy. As some history for you after uninstalling IS 6.0 the last time, because of privacy setting "forgetting" my pword, I had to mount the hdd on an external hdd case and reformat the c partition to get the hdd to work.
This is the current problem:
The bios writing comes up on the opening screec with my cpu 3000+ then it takes over a minute to get to the hdd detection screen.
I am running Win XP HE on an MSI MS6570 mobo
784 ram
160gb hdd with 3 partitions.
This is the current problem:
The bios writing comes up on the opening screec with my cpu 3000+ then it takes over a minute to get to the hdd detection screen.
I am running Win XP HE on an MSI MS6570 mobo
784 ram
160gb hdd with 3 partitions.
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I have re-installed mcafee and suddenly things are working again, i am going to try an uninstall tomorrow to see if I can replicate.
Boling: DMA not available for the hd under device manager. Is this a problem in itself?
As for the bios stuff I will wait to see what happens tomorrow. Any danger sin removing the battery, never done that before?
Boling: DMA not available for the hd under device manager. Is this a problem in itself?
As for the bios stuff I will wait to see what happens tomorrow. Any danger sin removing the battery, never done that before?
No danger in removing the battery - consider it a reset.
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I have tried this before but it made no difference, sorry. I admit I do not understand how the software could cause this problem and solve by uninstall, but then again I am just on the bottom rung of the technical ladder!
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wadegiles,
I think your right I will leave it for now.
All,
I would like to leave this open for a short period in case I get problems, or is it better to close this and start again? I have looked in the faqs but I think some help with the etiquette here would be appropriate.
I think your right I will leave it for now.
All,
I would like to leave this open for a short period in case I get problems, or is it better to close this and start again? I have looked in the faqs but I think some help with the etiquette here would be appropriate.
Leave it open for a short while, but don't forget to close it.
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Well it has happened once more but I was re-installing ATI multimedia player, seems like McAfee is off the hook. Again it sorted itself out. I don't think this one is going anywhere, so if there are no objections I will close it?
Ok with me.
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Callandor,
My intent is to split the points as all answers increased my understanding in some way, however, wadegiles is not coming up under the split points section, how do I allocate him points?
My intent is to split the points as all answers increased my understanding in some way, however, wadegiles is not coming up under the split points section, how do I allocate him points?
His name should, if you have enough points left to allocate.
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There are 250 points and only 3 names showing up, should I allocate some more?
That is very odd - you should bring this to the attention of Community Support. It might be a bug.
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Will do, thanks.
Hope this helps.