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| Pikaporeon |
 Apr 6 2004, 01:40 PM
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I recently upgraded to WinXP Pro. It worked fine until i got online with it, when i started getting out of memory errors. I increased my paging file size to max, then set it at system managed after finding the former didnt work.
After trying to DL an antivirus demo to no avail (didnt have time/had to return my modem as i share it with my mother) I found my performance in the game NHL 2004 to have gotten incredibly choppy. I suspected I had got a virus from KaZaA, so i deleted KaZaA. I also installed from my Motherboard disk Trend PC-cillan 2000. I needed to update it, but first i scanned (and found no viruses) and reset. Now that its reloaded, my computer hardly moves. Its so slow i cant navigate menues. Any tips? Heres the specs on my PC: Hard Drives: MASTER: 76 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM Running Windows XP Pro VIA GRUB SLAVE: 8 GB Fujitsu 5500 RPM Running RedHat Linux VIA GRUB CPU: AMD Athalon 1700+ (1466 MHZ) MONITOR: 19" Viewsonic VIDEOCARD: Nvidia GeForce 2 64MB RAM: 256 MB SDRAM (IMO probably a contributing factor to my troubles) CD: 52x (no burner or anything) Im thinking Il be taking out my master hard drive, putting it on my bros PC as a slave and burning stuff as backup, then wiping the drive. Any way around this (as I cannot function without my Windows XP segment as Linux does not support my modem) -------------------- A British company is developing small computer chips that can store music
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| Boss429 |
Apr 6 2004, 03:08 PM
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what is the connection?
is this a fresh install of the OS and this happens? or like u you say a direct upgrade? Personally i find actually upgrading can degrade performance, while a clean install shows more. 256mb ram is like the dead minimum that MS asks, even though i see some ibms and such use 128. free anti-virus AVG 6! totally free and all updates gets equal or better reviews then the norton and mcafee. your 7200 drive, is on a speed compatible ide cable? your drive is what ATA/uDMA 133 or such? some IDE cables max out at 100, not much of a boost in perf but meh. 133 cables all the wiring on the ide is shown as small ribs closely together, and the 66/100 ones are more spaced out and slightly bigger ribbs. -------------------- "Scenes change before my eyes
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Pikaporeon WinXP Pro Performance Apr 6 2004, 01:40 PM
Pikaporeon
Its an upgrade of my far-too-buggy WinME
And its... Apr 6 2004, 08:10 PM Timelapse Did you check your task list? Open up task manage... Apr 6 2004, 09:17 PM Songi upgrade on WinME? i would recommand doing a fresh ... Apr 6 2004, 09:39 PM Boss429 maybe even partion the 80gig HD it to too parts, w... Apr 6 2004, 10:22 PM Pikaporeon Timelapse, ive played with my Task List extensivly... Apr 6 2004, 10:47 PM Boss429 seems like you may either have to gowith a third ... Apr 7 2004, 01:10 AM DutchKid Yeah that's possible Pikaporeon. You can easil... Apr 7 2004, 10:17 AM PimpScourge yep, don't even think on repartitioning withou... Apr 7 2004, 05:04 PM Pikaporeon Luckily my WinXP CD came with PMagic ^^
Ive toyed... Apr 8 2004, 02:44 AM Bearsland
You are assuming there is no rule because it... Apr 8 2004, 03:14 AM Pikaporeon thanks, il drop it. (unless the staff says its wit... Apr 8 2004, 03:22 AM
captbics I set up the partitions on my PC with Partition Ma... Apr 24 2004, 09:09 PM |
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