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[Boss429]

Hey, I am trying to get my desktop up and running, but for some reason the system slows to a crawl.

it is a AMD 1.2, 768md sdram, 30gig hd, radeon9000 pro.

in the taskmanager, two things alternate between the 99% of CPU usage.

Services.exe and lsass.exe

any ideas why?

[TWINE006]

Hmmm... If your HD is making noises of any kind of scratching/grinding noises, that is a very likely problem. Those noises generally mean that you HD is about to become a useless of metal quite soon. It could be a faulty disk that's preventing Windows from operating normally and having trouble loading necessary resources. The fact that your system is hanging on Windows startup could also be caused by this. Since you mentioned various errors during Windows installation... I would put some blame on that, but the fact that it reads fine on other PCs rules that out. The best way to test the HD theory would be to pop out your HD and go hook it up into another rig that works. If the problem persists, then you should probably (as said) completely reformat (eliminating any possible software problem), reinstall, and try again. If the OS works fine on another rig, then there's a problem somewhere else in your hardware. Try booting up with different RAM sticks and see if the problem persists. I would possibly suggest a problem with your CPU or mobo, but generally faulty mobos/CPUs result in much more dramatic system errors.