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04-19-2006, 09:56 AM
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Slow, Slow, Slow
My girlfriend has a Toshiba Satellite laptop, with a Celeron running at 2.80 GHz with 192 MB Ram on XP, on Monday, it started running very slowly. It will run fine for a little while, and then, abruptly, freeze up for up to a minute or two, and then run normally. I've run Virus checkers, Spybot, and Adaware countless times. I even defragmented the drive, it's still running like this so...any ideas?
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04-19-2006, 10:08 AM
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How much free space is remaining on the C Drive?
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04-19-2006, 10:24 AM
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Shiro Usagi
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I'd seriously consider adding more RAM to that laptop...192MB of RAM isn't nearly enough for WinXP to run smoothly. Minimum I'd use is 512MB.
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04-19-2006, 10:39 AM
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It's about 25% full.
And yeah, I've thought it needed more RAM too, but this is the first I've seen how much it has. Last edited by Obstacle2; 04-19-2006 at 10:42 AM. Reason: wrong number |
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04-27-2006, 02:12 PM
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Ok, it was running fine, then it started this up again. Could this possibly be a cooling problem? I've noticed the vents are some surfaces of the computer are rather warm to the touch. And if it were to be a cooling problem, how can I cool her down?
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04-27-2006, 02:16 PM
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Open up Task Manager to see if any processes jump to near 100% during the slowdowns.
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04-28-2006, 05:10 PM
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Another thing to look for is how much the hard drive led stays lit when it seems to freeze.
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