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Weird PC performance problem

CraigopogoCraigopogo Registered User regular
edited January 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
Hi all. I've got kind of an odd problem here and was wondering if anyone had any insights.

When I boot up my PC with my ethernet cable plugged in it takes upwards of 5 minutes before I can do anything, but if I boot up without the cable plugged in I'm up and running in under a minute. If I have the cable plugged in everything runs slower, games, browser, other applications take forever starting up. It's a DSL modem, if that makes any difference. My CPU is a P4 2.4Ghz, and I have 1GB of RAM.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Have you scanned for malware?

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  • CraigopogoCraigopogo Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Yeah, I do pretty regularly. The other thing I forgot to mention is, over the summer I had a wireless PCI card in it at my parent's house, and it ran fine. It's only when it's got the ethernet cable plugged in that it slows down.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Have you tried uninstalling the Wireless card/software?

    Also, scan more with different spyware scanners.

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  • CraigopogoCraigopogo Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Yeah, I have uninstalled the wireless card. This problem has actually been going on for about 4 years. It used to just be that booting was slow, but now it's everything.

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  • BeazleBeazle Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Have you reinstalled your network card drivers?

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  • CraigopogoCraigopogo Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I don't have a network card, it plugs right into my motherboard, but I have reinstalled the software I got from my ISP.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Craigopogo wrote:
    I don't have a network card, it plugs right into my motherboard, but I have reinstalled the software I got from my ISP.

    Your motherboard will have drivers for it's NIC chipset. Update those.

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  • CraigopogoCraigopogo Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Well, I went to the Gigabyte website, and all they have there are the AGP, ATA and Audio drivers. It's a GA-8ST667 motherboard.

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  • BeazleBeazle Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Go here

    http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=1412&ProductName=GA-8ST667-L

    and download the lan driver.

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  • CraigopogoCraigopogo Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Ok, downloaded and installed that driver and it's still the same.

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  • lowlylowlycooklowlylowlycook Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Craigopogo wrote:
    Ok, downloaded and installed that driver and it's still the same.

    Have you noticed what is taking up the cpu in Task Manager? Also you might want to connect it to another network if you have easy access to one. That would isolate the problem a bit.

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  • MentholMenthol Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    maybe it's all of your programs detecting your connection and searching for updates.

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  • CauldCauld Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I have a similar problem sometimes. It usually occurs when I have my network settings set to use DHCP to automatically get an IP address, but am in fact connected to a network without a DHCP server. For some reason it won't finish booting up windows until it finishes trying to get an IP address which can take some time. :P

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