Okay so i built a new comp after my last comp broke, the only thing that remains are the 2 harddrives (western digital, one 250gig one 80gig), 2 gigs of ddr ram, my geforce 5950 ultra, and my SOUND blaster audigy 2 zs pro. Got a ASUS P5P800 mobo with a new intel 620 64bit chip, with 800 fsb. Slapped the stuff together in a new case and all, formatted the main HD and everything was cool. Installed norton, a few other things, everything was fast as *censored* for about... 2 days.

I dont turn off my comp, so overnight RANDOMLY (if it matters norton runs auto every day at 6am) with bittornado open overnight just goes to the CRAPPER. Everything is SLOW as *censored*, to right click took a minute or two, AIM opening i never got to open, took longer than 20 minutes though, task manager opens after 3 minutes and the ram/processor ussage is hardly being used. Just everything is in the crapper, i think memory or processor but i dont see how it could've happened overnight.

So windows repair wont work, says it cant copy some FILE although the cd is fine. I eventually format again, full 50 minutes of watching it format, then install windows. That's where i'm at. When i'm in windows now everything is perfect, fine, no problems (so far, been 1 day)  however when i boot up the computer, the BIOS checks and everything go hella fast, but that little pre-loading bar for windows (the blank screen with the bar that pans across the screen at the bottom) takes about 10-20 minutes to load, then it goes to the Windows XP loading screen and everything goes NORMAL.

Running SP2, all updated to the latest w/ all drivers updated.

I can only pray that in a few days my computer doesnt go to *censored* completely again (at least after the bios checks)

ANY ideas? Thanksboot vis, Defrag... Those are what i would normally recomend but they are to do with moving files on the HD surface so it all runs smoother but is only really needed after you have been using a HD for a long while.

How is your p.c once it is running. Have you damaged the MOBO in anyway? Quote

boot vis, Defrag... Those are what i would normally recomend but they are to do with moving files on the HD surface so it all runs smoother but is only really needed after you have been using a HD for a long while.

How is your p.c once it is running. Have you damaged the MOBO in anyway?

Try a WD diagnostics diskette. How did you partition and format, using fdisk or using the XP CD?

How have the bytes per allocation cluster worked out? You get 4096?

What is the fragmentation like, lots of red or not?

I guess that you are using AdAware SE, SpyBot SD and SpywareBlaster and remembering that the longer you stay on-line the more chance of hacking or infection.