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02-01-2005, 05:05 PM
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Computer running slow for no reason?
my computer has been very slow, slower then it should. the load times for games/installs is longer then it should, my cousion has a computer close to the same specs as mine and when installing a game he was already finished as i was just getting to disk 2/3
i have as follows EPOX motherboard gainward 5700 ultra 128mb corsair XMS ram 512 434Mhz barton 2500 Oc's to a 3200 120 Gig Seagate my cuz has pretty much everything the same except a little smaller HD and slower video card, i was wondering what is configured wrong here i even did a FRESH format and i'm still running considerably slow, i have windows pro XP sp2 with a few games installed. sorry this is put together so here and there but if anyone has any recommendations or helpful tips i would much appreciate them! |
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02-01-2005, 05:11 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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Have you scanned your system for viruses, spyware, hijackers and trojans yet?
How full is the hard drive? Do you defrag your hard drive regularly? Do you delete temp files regularly? Do you empty the Recycle Bin regularly? How fast is your hard drive? Is it a 5400 RPM or 7200 RPM hard drive?  Cricket
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02-01-2005, 05:30 PM
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02-01-2005, 06:09 PM
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I don't think so, not if you do it regularly because then you are just constantly freeing up small amounts of space. I think if you didn't do it on a regular basis, you would be building it up and therefore slowly decreasing the amount of free space. Just my logical thinking there
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02-02-2005, 03:58 AM
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Try to remember whether after installing certain software did it start running slow...also get into the task manager and check ur cpu performance..shld be less than 10% in idle state
At wht temp is the cpu running at idle? Also some memory prob somtimes makes this happen..if possible u could swap ur memory wit ur cousin's and see if thers any improvemnt |
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02-02-2005, 03:59 AM
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Try to remember whether after installing certain software did it start running slow...also get into the task manager and check ur cpu performance..shld be less than 10% in idle state
At wht temp is the cpu running at idle? Also some memory prob somtimes makes this happen..if possible u could swap ur memory wit ur cousin's and see if thers any improvemnt Also run updated virus scan (AVG or Bitdefender) in safe mode..also get Spybot Servh and Destroy and scan for trojans and spyware. |
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02-02-2005, 08:07 AM
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Have you scanned your system for viruses, spyware, hijackers and trojans yet?
Yes, everynight How full is the hard drive? 98 gigs free out of registered 115 Do you defrag your hard drive regularly? Defrag with diskeeper 9 everynight Do you delete temp files regularly? yes the ones i know of in games and i do disk clean up Do you empty the Recycle Bin regularly? as soon as i put something in it How fast is your hard drive? Is it a 5400 RPM or 7200 RPM hard drive? 7200 i was playing in the bios and noticed my IDE prefetch was disabled, so i enabled it and it seemed to speed it up considerably, i was wondering if anyone could help me make sure "main" parts of my bios are set correctly for my Hardware so if anyone has the epox 8rda3+ mobo and has your bios set to run good plz help me, anytime i set my bios to load perfromance defaults it won't boot, i get check disk error even after setting the only boot device to my HD ALSO are there any noticably working tweak programs all the ones i've gotten in the past seem to have the same concept as sugar pills, they seem like they don't do anything but are just there to make me think they do so i'm not installing any of those til i get a decent recommendation thx |
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02-02-2005, 09:58 AM
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02-02-2005, 12:38 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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When you installed the OS, did you return the CPU back to stock speeds or was your CPU still overclocked?
Have you tried running your system at stock speeds to see if things improve? Take a look at the capacitors on the motherboard to see if any are bulging or leaking. I've come across 4 EPoX motherboards with bulging or leaking capacitors in the past year. Cricket
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02-02-2005, 11:38 PM
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Ok i'm kinda getting somewhere with this but the somewhere is getting me nowhere. I discovered that the only way to boot my computer i have to have to disable DMA in the bios for my computer to even boot, when i have it enabled it wants to boot up from the cd rom, my HD have a bunch of pin configs on the back, i have it on 16 head cable sel. i was wondering why i am unable to get the HD to boot w/ DMA enabled.
i figured this out by doing the test on pcpitstop.com and only gettin 3MB uncached and it's suppose to be around 30 i have already stated my Mobo so those that have the same on know the bios or anyone else w/ this kind of problem plz help, this is not right. i already tried the thing on microsoft to enable it threw device manager |
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