On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:06:21 -0600, Tim
<timmib.nospam@excite.not.com> wrote:


>>I really doubt this is a software issue anyhow. Because
>>yesterday when I did the reboot and it was running so slow
>>the mouse cursor would barely move, I shut down to Dos, and
>>when I typed DIR, it took at least a minute to *slowly* show
>>all the dirs in the root directory of C:, and finally get
>>back to the C: prompt.
>
>This really does sound like a mb & heat situation.

While he may have a motherboard failure-in-progress, the
above paragraph sounds more like a drive or drive cabling
failure. Granted the heat can effect a drive as well but
often that comes in the form of lockups instead of very
sluggish behavior.

Since the data on the drive could be at risk I suggest
running the HDD manufacturer's diagnostics on it, then
powering off the system, unplugging the hard drive so it has
no further wear on it for awhile while running memtest86+ to
check for memory errors - since if the system has memory
errors they ought to be corrected, OR the drive moved to
another system first, before trying to copy data off if the
drive were failing.