defrag ? have you ran drive diagnostics ? almost sounds like drive failing or bad caps on MB. drive IO can kill performance. Also how full is the drive, I find they slow down after 50% full. how dirty is the cpu fan ? dust can cause heat build up. sorry if these are things you already checked. fp
At 04:45 PM 8/8/2006, Veech Poked the stick with: >What is the general culprit when a system experiences slowdowns and stalls? >I'm running XP on a P4 3.0 system with 2G PC3200RAM. a couple of months ago >this thing zipped along. Then it started going slower and slower, taking up >to 2 minutes to finish booting up. Now when I do a simple multi-task thing, >such as click on IE while burning a CD in Nero, it takes up to a minute for >the IE screen to load. When it finally does, it's slow as molasses. Sometimes >it freezes, and I have to hit the reset button. I'm resetting the computer up >to 4 or 5 times in a 3 hour session. Can't be good. > >I've run spybot and virus software, and everything is clean. MSCONFIG has >nothing enabled, although that didn't help boot-up time at all. Is it time to >reinstall XP? > >I really am anxious to upgrade but I want a Core 2 Duo system with SLI and >there aren't yet any boards available. Don't know if I can hang on till the >end of the year... -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Save energy: be apathetic.
