Sluggish preformance on 1.66ghz

STaN · 12-01-2003 2:12am #1

PC:
AMD XP 2000 (1.66ghz)
Asus A7N8X motherboard w/ nForce2 chipset
256MB 333mhz ddr ram CL2.5
128MB Geforce 4 Ti4600
40GB 7200rpm hd
30GB 5400rpm hd
Integrated dual lan on motherboard
6 USB ports
2 firewire ports
serial ata-150
integrated dolby digital 6.1 sound card
40x cdr

The problem is that windows seems to want to take a breether every few minutes and not responde. The mouse works, but i cant click on things, but after about 8-10seconds anything ive clicked pops up.

Its getting to be quite annoying. Internet explorer is particularly bad as i generally juggle about 10 IE windows at once.

_sheep · 12-01-2003 2:16am

This was happening me on xp-pro, did a reinstall and all is well

sceptre · 12-01-2003 2:18am

How long is it since you defragged the hard disc?

STaN · 12-01-2003 2:20am

ages sceptre, will run it overnight and see how it is in the morning

sceptre · 12-01-2003 2:33am

Try the regular built-in defragger so and see if it helps. Run it a few times. TBH, I've always been disappointed with the built-in solution though - for a start it won't defrag directories, only files. At the moment I'm using PerfectDisk (from Raxco) but O&O Defrag and ExecSoft's Diskeeper are also quite good (and will all do the directories too)

The other thing that might make a difference to IE and windows explorer is how many favourites you have. I used have 3000+ in the main directory - after sorting them into 25 or 30 subdirectories I noticed a performance difference with IE immediately. Having said that, given that I also open a silly amount of browser windows at once, I now use Opera and find it makes a big difference (Mozilla would be as good or almost as good). Your PC is three times the speed of mine though.

naitkris · 12-01-2003 11:39am

i had a similar problem with my AMD Athlon XP 2200+, 512MB DDR RAM etc. It's nothing to do with the OS you are running as I had trouble twice - Linux and Windows but formatting the hard disk and reinstalling from scratch did the trick. I'd also recommend flashing your BIOS with the latest firmware update if available (only if it corrects your issue as flashing your BIOS can sometimes do more harm then good).

if you don't want to start over just yet, double check your BIOS settings to make sure it's all correct, you might not have your processor being run at 1.66Ghz but more like half that if your BIOS is configured wrongly.

Saruman · 13-01-2003 9:09am

Had a problem like this on my 2100... happened in any OS (all clean builds!) Not long after the cpu burnt out so i had it replaced and all was well! Dont want to scare you but its something to remember.

More than likely though its just you need a good format. Nothing like it.

spooky donkey · 13-01-2003 9:25am

My advice is as well as running a defrag, try to run some program to chack for spy ware like anti spy or something. There may be spy ware running processes in the back ground that you dont know about. Worked for me any way.

STaN · 13-01-2003 2:31pm

Well ive flashed the bios to the latest, defragmented, ran adware.. found gator on the network, nuked that. Not sure if theres any more spyware lurking.... any other good programs for finding it?

Well so far so good, havent noticed any pausing yet. CPU is 44oC idle and 52oC at 100% ... that high?

TinCool · 13-01-2003 2:47pm

That temperature is fine. My XP1800 runs at about that.

I had a similar problem where Windows was pausing. Found that it was my infrared usb mouse. Changed that and it was grand.

strat · 13-01-2003 3:01pm

what windows you on ?

if your on xp
task manager > performance
monitor that see if it spikes the cpu, if so then kep an eye on process's and see which it is

if no spikes the kill all the threads under your name except explorer and taskmanger and see if it stabilises

Sluggish preformance on 1.66ghz

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