DougD720

So I pulled this monster apart and cleaned out the fan/heatsink but to be honest there wasn't much dust in there at all. The core's running about 1-3 degrees cooler than before but still having all the same problems. I dont think overheating was the problem.

I'm running XP SP3 and factory restoring it is something i'd like to avoid, at least until i get an external hard-drive to backup my files.

This has to be a virus or something that the AV's missing or one cloaking itself as part of the AV suite. The CPU usage is through the roof and minor tasks that barely affected the speed of the computer a few weeks ago are now taking forever and consuming so many resources if i run a small program and try to watch/listen to music or video at the same time the sound/video/both skips horribly. I cant stream video or music from the internet because the loading of the content takes up too many resources so the video skips and wont play normally until everything's loaded - and like i said, only if NO other programs are running.

Any ideas anyone? If you need another HiJackThis log lemme know.

Thanks so much!

PS - I tried running an Ubuntu LiveCD just to see if it was the OS or the Computer and everything works fine with the liveCD, so it's definitely a software issue.