nikhibuk

Athlon 2100+
Geforce 4 Graphics card
512MB ram
NForce2 Mobo
40 gig HD

Hi guys, hope someone can help me out.

Ive' had AOL Broadband for about a year now. I havn't had any serious problems until the last 3 weeks or so.

My problem is that AOL stops responding under load. If I'm simply using it to browse it runs fine however if I load up Kazzaa and start downloading files, after a while my download rate goes to zero and if I attempt to access a page nothing happens. This could happen after 30 mins or 3 hours.

I try to close AOL and it says "AOL is not responding" and I have to do it via the task bar. Additionally once this happens AOL refuses to load up again until I reboot my system, and the system will not shut down properly, it just goes to the signing out screen and stays there.

Ive formatted the drive and done 2 fresh windows installs using AOL 7, 8 and 9 but it makes no difference.

Iv'e rung AOL and tried a few things which were unsuccesful, Ive also contacted BT and had a test done one my line, but there's nothing wrong with it.

My drive is partitioned into 2 sections, I keep all my downloads on partition 2 and have not formatted that, could it be a virus that is on the other partition?

As I stated this is only a recent problem.

Sorry bout the essay but any advise would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Nik