Sudden Slow Down in Performance

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We have an old HP server which fell over the weekend. Since then it has run
incredibly slow.
We cannot open Control Panel and any attempt to install anything on it
fails.
It times out when we try to halt any services
There is nothing showing in Task Manager that is hogging the processor
The disks are not full

Has anyone got any suggestions before I take to it with an axe!

Cheers

Tony
 
If you mean, literally fell kerplunk, and especially if it was running
at the time, a disk surface may have been slightly marred in a head
crash. When the controller/drive retry routines kick in on an
unsuccessful access, they (a) often leave no footprints and (b) can take
a looooong time retrying before they get a good read or write. This
stuff is invisible to the OS, especially if the access succeeds
eventually. If the access is critical path, like a pagefile or system
routine that must complete for multitasking (or the OS itself) to
resume, the slowdown will be very evident.

DEownload the (free) bootable disk diagnostic floppy images from each of
your drive manufacturers, run them, see what they say.
 
Cheers for the reply

Finally got to the bottom of it....

A java licence that our PowerChute software was using expired on 27th July
2005 which causes these types of problems... no idea why it took till now to
show.
 
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