What? You've got to be kidding, you reduced the RAM by half???? When I read your original post, I recalled a laptop I saw about 2-3 weeks ago that was doing the same thing; no apps sucking cycles but everything took F-O-R-E-V-E-R. When I'd finally killed all the apps, I was able to check its RAM and discovered that it only had 250MB and was swapping huge chunks of "memory" to/from the HD swap file. This was a 4-5 yo Celeron "powered" laptop with shared memory for video.
YMMV --- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. - Douglas Adams > > Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:21:16 -0400 > From: Frank Sestir <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: XP Media Center Problem > > I am now on my third time reinstalling to factory build. It now no > longer goes past the Windows XP setup screen. I'm giving up for a > while. I'll be swapping out memory, hd, etc. to try to get this thing > working again. It had 2-512MB chips in it, and I've replaced them with > 2-256MB chips. Running out of ideas. It might be time for a new > notebook. When it was working, Task Manager didn't show anything > outside of the ordinary. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
