I don't know what's going on lately.

 

 

 

My fans have been going crazy; sometimes they'll be quiet as anything, but then sometimes they seem to keep loudly changing speeds all the time. any ideas?

 

 

 

also, i've ran nessecary spyware programs (ad-aware, spybot etc) but my computer still seems to be slower than usual; and it happens before my computer loads properly, because on the welcome screen of xp home (where you choose your user) i click my user account from turning the computer on and the animation is choppy/looks like it's processing something even when i havn't clicked it yet. then all my startup programs load after this...

 

 

 

it happens throughout, and it's driving me insane; i can't run music programs (listening or writing with) because playback is choppy and dodgy, but it's not my soundcard drivers because i just bought an m-audio 2496 with asio full duplex and upgraded to the newest drivers.

 

 

 

im thinking it could be a setting in bios or something, but i'm stumped. my computer often overheats and i cleaned out the entire thing last night, took all fans off and everything.

 

 

 

i'm running an AMD Athlon 2400+ (set to auto in bios) with 512mb RAM.

 

 

 

can anyone shed some light on this? :(

First check/update your graphics drivers, as this can cause choppyness in games/videos.

 

 

 

Have you ran anti-spyware programmes, but have you ran any anti-virus programmes?

yeah, avg antivirus, found nothing...

 

 

 

i'll update my graphics drivers now, thankyou :)

theres a bios setting on some motherboards which is sometimes called smart fan control.

 

 

 

If it is enabled the fans only switch on when the processor reaches a certain temp and then switch off when it cools down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It sometimes seems to get stuck in a endless loop of it cooling down by a degree or so, switching the fans off then it heats up again fans go on then off and the cycle repeats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You switch it off, if it is in the bios settings, although the fans will be constantly.