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re: Please...what else can I do? PC very slow
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6103 messages posted)
Two things I would check first:
1) Check the Event Viewer for error messages, especailly pertaining to hardware,
the IDE channels or the HDD's
2) in the device manager, check the IDE channels to see if they are running in PIO
or DMA mode. If PIO, it will slow your machine to a crawl. Set it to DMA, or delete
the channels and reboot, let Windows reload the driver and see what happens. Second
issue that can slow a machine down are hardware/HDD/drive problems, so one should
always check the Event Viewer for error messages when starting a troubleshooting
procedure.
If your machine is being set to PIO mode, then you have some issues, usually dealing
with hardware throwing errors which causes the default to revert to PIO, slowing
the machane down.
If it shows running DMA for both IDE channels in the device manager, then you start
looking for other causes..
On Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 3:06 pm, paul bolden wrote:
>Hello everyone
>
>My PC is running slow. Here’s what I can tell you. Any application when opened
>or executing a command or loading web pages with heavy graphics temporarily pegs
>the cpu at 100% for 15 to 20 seconds causing freeze-ups and audio stuttering. Any
>multi tasking such as printing two docs simultaneously on separate printers is now
>impossible where there was no problem before. When surfing the net I constantly
>have to reboot after a short while as the web pages stop loading (often the message
>“wnd status” appears in the address bar). Its as if I’m out of system resources.
> I have 512 mb/ram which doesn’t seem to be effected by CPU usage as it never exceeds
>197/512 even when at 100% cpu usage.
>
>Here’s what I’ve done:
>
>1) Norton anti-virus is always on.
>
>2) Ran Spybot which listed and cleaned a lot of junk that apparently got past Norton
>(what’s up with that?).
>
>3) Ran Registry Mechanic including deep scan.
>
>4) Ran Windowscare V2. To clean junk files, shut down unnecessary programs at start-up,
>etc.
>
>5) Defragged the harddrive with diskeeper.
>
>PC performance did not improve at all. Anyone have any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Paul Bolden
>
>Gateway
>P4 – 1.9 Ghz
>512/ram
>Radeon 9250
>xp-pro serv pak2
>Directx 9c
>Open GL 5.1
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