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[hotel21]

I had an 'Oh Fek' moment yesterday whereby a half glass of red was spilt upon the docking station for my Dell PDA and my desk.  Apart from turning the grey cloth of a speaker cover a nice shade of pink, it has shorted and melted the electrical contacts of the docking station, singed the PDA contacts and thrown up a Root USB controller or similar fault on my PC.

PDA seems to be working OK and can be charged via the same pinout as the docking station so seems to have survived.  Can get a new Dell docking station for about a tenner from E-bay.

Problem appears to be the PC.  Its a couple of years old P4 3.2ghz and now runs like a dog taking virtually 7 or 8 minutes to boot.  Once up and running, some progs work OK others are really slow.  The USB connector that the PDA was plugged into seems to be working as I can plug another device in and alls OK.

The question is, will it be a hardware type fault or a software type fault?  I can easily claim on the house insurance but it carries a £100 excess so if it can be sorted with a new motherboard/processor for less than that, its not worth a claim.

Comments and/or way to explore whats actually wrong for someone who is not the best at computer type things....?

[cem_devecioglu]

Do you get any error messages on boot ?

or do you see any exclamation marks on system devices window ?
(from my computer- manage-device manager)

or  its opening slower then normal ?

if last one is the answer you need a full re-install of op.system and sofwares you use

(if I understand correct)

[cem_devecioglu]

also too many deletes on the system registry and File alloaction table

may slow the system..

[hotel21]

No exclamation marks on 'my computer' all appears as per normal.

PC simply takes an age to boot, no error codes or similar.

[cem_devecioglu]

What Disk capacity and RPM ?

[cem_devecioglu]

I use P4 3.0 in job with 15K RPM SCSI still fast..

Although become a bit slower with Personel Firewall

[hotel21]

What Disk capacity and RPM ?

how does WDC WD1600JD-00HBB0 sound???  Thats what shows under disc drives....

[cem_devecioglu]

Also if you mapped many network disks this also will slow your PC

[cem_devecioglu]

checking ...

[Golfbuddy]

What Disk capacity and RPM ?

how does WDC WD1600JD-00HBB0 sound???  Thats what shows under disc drives....

Hard Disk : WDC WD1600JD-00HBB0 (149GB)
1.5 Gb/s, 8 MB Cache, 7200 RPM

[hotel21]

two of those are fitted...

[Golfbuddy]

Broocie, have you tried to do a Disk defrag? Also, might be worth checking for registry clutter??

 :-/

[hotel21]

Broocie, have you tried to do a Disk defrag? Also, might be worth checking for registry clutter??

 :-/

Not yet.  Just trying to do a damage assessment this morning!!  

[Golfbuddy]

Broocie, have you tried to do a Disk defrag? Also, might be worth checking for registry clutter??

 :-/

Not yet.  Just trying to do a damage assessment this morning!!  

Or learn to type quicker to compensate for the reduction in machine speed?  

[cem_devecioglu]

160 GB 7200 RPM SATA...

But when I make a search seems to be slow on the net and there are

complaints..

Options:

Either format the disk and install everything from scratch (this would be the one I'll try first)  or

buy a faster model (10K RPM) or

a new model Samsung (7200 RPM)..