First off i have a 2.8ghz D CORE and 1GB ram COMPUTER with Windows XP Home. Today i had a lot of programs running and unfortunately i had a power surge that somehow screwed up my computer: I restarted it and FOUND out the speed was ridiculously slow. I couldn't even open firefox or open a chat on aim; however, i was able to open winamp and play songs? I eventually restarted it enough times that i got a check disk blue screen and it said it was repairing my index tables, whatever that is, but it didn't help!

I'm not even able to open system restore in safe mode! The program just doesn't respond. Everything just takes forever and when i look at my task manager my system CPU % isn't at 99 . It seems as if my computer doesn't want to work. I tried opening safe mode with CMD prompt but my keyboard didnt work? Something is terribly wrong!

Right now I'm doing a hardware utility test. Hopefully i can get some answers from that.

I would love for ya'll to help me on this. 10 dollars VIA paypal to the first person that helps me resolve this issue. If you are in the USA please call or text my number at 832-257-2055.We are a volunteer Forum so Paypal is not neccessary...

Does diskcheck run to completion ? ? No matter how long it takes i would leave it run OVERNIGHT if need be.

The drive has probably dropped back into PIO mode which is the slowest data transfer mode there is. This HAPPENS when there are consecutive read/write errors which can happen when power is interrupted for any reason.

Best bet is to let diskcheck run...worst case scenario the drive won't co-operate and you would need to hook it up as a slave in a known working machine to retrieve your data and then re-format and re-install the OS...Yeah disc check completes but when everything starts up it seems as if the computer is still working.... I can play music via winamp but its almost impossible to open anything else up like my computer. Does anyone know whats wrong?If you have the shiny Windows CD, pop it in and do a restore.

Alan <>< Try swapping parts. Get a known good power supply and put it in there, then try some good memory, then a video card, then cpu. If you don't have any spares, then don't do it. There's no use buying parts to swap just to find out it can't be fixed.