Sluggish system

[hereigns]

First of all I realize this is a long shot but...

I have a W2K server that I'm attempting to reinstall and for a reason that I can not figure out it is extremely slow. What prompted the reinstall was the local admin account was disabled, not sure why it was disabled. While it belonged to the domain and was able to login with a domain user account it worked fine.

However, yesterday after attempting to repair the OS it didn't hang but was slow at the windows 2000 splash start up screen. I left it in that state last night and when I came in, 11 hours later, it was still at the start up screen.

So, in my infinte wisdom I decided to reinstall, which is taking hours just to copy the setup files to the HD.
It is an older box but outside of the local admin account being disabled it was working quite nicely.

My first thought is possibly bad HD and/or CPU. But I'm not convinced it is something with the hardware since in its previous state was working fine. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem? If so, can you provide insight into your fix?

Thanks.

 

[beerhunter2]

I had a similar issue a while back, but with a laptop. It turned out that the BIOS was corrupt. I downloaded and flashed with the latest BIOS, and all was well.

Don't know if this is your issue, but it won't hurt to try.

Help! I've fallen and I can't reach my beer.

 

[hereigns]

beerhunter2,
Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try.