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I'm trying that now (restarting the router). Hopefully it will help.

RickyTick, I'm using Firefox, but have troubles with bittorrent programs as well.

I've never seen this problem before. My PC has a hard time downloading almost anything, including web pages. It's a new PC (less than a year old) and this problem started recently.

I think it's...

That's it! My mobo has six SATA sockets. All I needed to do is plug the boot drive into socket #1 and it became the "master."

The mobo manual didn't explain that either.

Thanks.

I just built my own system ad it worked great from the start. But I the decided to add a smaller hard drive and use it as the boot drive. The larger drive will just be for files, downloads, etc. ...

Power cut? Not sure. You mean a surge protector?

Sure, but I shut down the PC normally before cutting power. Besides, I wasn't even running Windows, and it got messed up too.

I've had my PC for just over a week and it's been great. But Friday I reformatted the hard drive and re-installed Windows and Linux. I did this because I wanted to allocate my partitions more...

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Boot from a Linux live cd. If everything works okay, then you know it's not a hardware problem. Could just be Windows doing what it does best.