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vista is horribly slow today after cleaning my cpu fan.

abudahim — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:24:22 GMT

hi
today i cleaned my cpu fan (wish i didn't) , after i put everything in its place, i run my machine and it started slowly.
also the games that was running fine now it runs very slow and i can't play it.
my base score is the same (4.3). i dont know what is wrong ?
any ideas ?
thank you

i forgot to tell you that my processor is pentuim 4. and my VGA is nvidia 8800 GTS.
and downloaded the latest drivers but nothing changed.

Hit and Miss with DVD Drives in Vista

SwiftImmortal_1 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:45:25 GMT

I have a Lite-On DVD burner that's about 2 years old. For a while now whenever I put any type of disc in it (CD, CD-R, DVD, DVD-R, etc.), Vista treats it as though it were blank. In the drive properties it shows that there is information on the disc, but when I try to access it, it comes up with "prepare this blank disc." I've done a firmware update that I got from the Lite-On website that was supposed to fix the issue, but no luck. I also have a Pioneer USB DVD drive that works perfectly on any other system I use it on, but it gives me the same crap. Sometimes when I'm persistent enough, I can eject the disc enough times that it will eventually let me explore the drive and get to the information off of the disc. It's the same way with two different drives with two different interfaces, so it's gotta be a Vista problem, right?

What can I do?

UPDATE: I've found that if I insert a disc, then kill and restart the explorer.exe process, the disc will usually read. I have no idea why that works, but it does.

Trouble w/ DVD & CD drives

PorPorMe — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:13:37 GMT

Ever since I installed Vista I've had CD problems. I have reinstalled a couple of times with the same problem.I have a Sony DVD-RW & a Sony CD-RW.The Cd is a slave to the DVD. The Cd has become worthless, it won't read or write.It is recognized but it can't recognize a disk.I've tried swapping different burners and Cd-Roms and it stays the same. I've un-installed the drivers and rebooted to reinstall-no joy.The DVD-RW works to a degree. It will read & write DVD's but gets problematic with data disks. (I have a lot of zip files on cd) It will start to read and copy to HDD but will quickly degrade in copy speed to a point that it no longer reads the disk.
Any ideas?

Win32K.SYS and MEMORY MANAGEMENT BSODS

RyanD878 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:42:16 GMT

Hi all. This is becoming very irritating. Right now the two most common blue screens I keep getting are MEMORY MANAGEMENT and WIN32K.SYS. They randomly happen...... sometime when installing a new program or even just doing a vista windows update. It is getting VERY irritating all I want to do is have my computer work right. I recently had to reinstall my Vista Home Premium and other than the fact that I had a bad virus before I reinstalled everything worked just fine. Now all of a sudden, after the reinstall, nothing works right and it keeps blue screening. I have a new video card so I know thats not the issue, and ran the vista memory diagnostics program and my RAM passed with no errors so its not my RAM. Another symptom I have is like when I come out of sleep mode and the mouse wont work. Any help please.

Blue Screen problems

RyanD878 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:09:30 GMT

Hi all. This is becoming very irritating. Right now the two most common blue screens I keep getting are MEMORY MANAGEMENT and WIN32K.SYS. They randomly happen...... sometime when installing a new program or even just doing a vista windows update. It is getting VERY irritating all I want to do is have my computer work right. I recently had to reinstall my Vista Home Premium and other than the fact that I had a bad virus before i reinstalled everything worked just fine. Now all of a sudden, after the reinstall, nothing works right and it keeps blue screening. I have a new video card so I know thats not the issue, and ran the vista memory diagnostics program and my RAM passed with no errors so its not my RAM. Another symptom I have is like when I come out of sleep mode and the mouse wont work. Any help please.