It had that virusy look about it with things such as my 'default startup & shutdown sounds playing slowly, clipping, the startup process was taking quite a while longer than I care for, etc. I made sure my MSE was up to date, did a full scan,so on. All clean....
1 of my cpu cores was working out of sync with the way it always has done, so I decide either it is a crook cpu or possibly I might have some Windows files have become corrupted. I spend the best part of a day doing backups of all my data which I already had fully backed up anyways, but I just like to be sure when given the chance. I then decide to install a fresh windows beside my existing version rather than do a full reformat up front. While going through the new set up process, away it goes again with all the sounds playing up. This time the mouse is all but unuseable.
I pull the machine to bits thinking I might be up for a new cpu. The bloody cpu has fans n stuff all over it & I just didn't feel like pulling all that to bits this afternoon. So it just happens I have a couple of old ram cards lying around, so I swap them over.
Still with all the covers off, I boot up. Much to my surprise, away it all goes & is now running perfect.
I am left thinking 'DOH'.... why didnt I try that in the 1st place.... ( Probably because the ram I had only put into it about 4 or 5 months ago, so how could that be buggered....
)Ahh well, on the bright side, I still have all my data unaffected & just now have a complete extra copy of Windows sitting on my drive as Windows.0. Plus I have some good backups now on my external drive totally uncompressed.
