When I Leave My Pc On Overnight It Goes Slow Or Even Stops, Even The Time Slows Down.i Then Have To Reboot. I'm Using Broadband So I Want To Keep It On. Also When I Use Defrag Through The Task Scheduler It Says That There Are Errors On My Hard Drive But When I Run Scan Disk It Does Not Find Any. My Pc Is A Amd Athelon 2400+, 512ddram, Via Motherboard And I'm Using Win 98se. Can Anyone Help ??

Did you check the temperature, maybe the fan does not work!


When I Leave My Pc On Overnight It Goes Slow Or Even Stops, Even The Time Slows Down.i Then Have To Reboot. I'm Using Broadband So I Want To Keep It On. Also When I Use Defrag Through The Task Scheduler It Says That There Are Errors On My Hard Drive But When I Run Scan Disk It Does Not Find Any. My Pc Is A Amd Athelon 2400+, 512ddram, Via Motherboard And I'm Using Win 98se. Can Anyone Help ??

checked fan. Temperature ok.

Wicker,

I just dropped into the boards and your issue caught my attention.

It may sound a bit odd to ask, but are you using any firewall or firewall software? If you are on broadband without a firewall, it is possible someone is hijacking your system. If you are using a router (as in the case of sharing the broadband connection) between your computer and the broadband connection, this can be considered a hardware firewall. Be certain you have the latest firmware and change your password regularly. If you do have the router and a hacker has compromised it, this could be the culprit.

As to other causes of the slowdown, the temperature issue for AMD chips is important. You said your fan was working. I have troubleshot a similar situation where the fan was spinning in the wrong direction. The system was custom built that way for the customer. My point is that the temperature may be "okay" when you are checking it, but it spikes overnight and causes the problems. It bears checking into.

As a good measure, I would defrag the drive and reseat the RAM, PCI cards and cables. Try pcpitstop.com to give your system a checkup as well.

Goog luck with your issue.

Les

Who is the manifacture of you mobo, i know if you would look on the website for the company they usualy has a tool thay will monitor the system fans and record the info. i have an asus board and i have logs from when my computer is on of what tempature it was running at what time and it even has voltage monitering

Who is the manifacture of you mobo, i know if you would look on the website for the company they usualy has a tool thay will monitor the system fans and record the info. i have an asus board and i have logs from when my computer is on of what tempature it was running at what time and it even has voltage monitering
i agree sounds like heat sllow-down... unless you are running programs you arent aware of such as spyware! run spyware and pc pitstop may help