WinXP Pro Performance, ~
WinXP Pro Performance, ~
Pikaporeon |
Apr 6 2004, 01:40 PM
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Advanced Curveball Champion! ...Then I Defy You, Stars Group: Private Member Posts: 426 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Canadia Member No.: 70 |
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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Buckled Up Group: Private Member Posts: 623 Joined: 18-March 04 From: Canada Member No.: 18 |
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 |
Apr 6 2004, 08:10 PM
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Advanced Curveball Champion! ...Then I Defy You, Stars Group: Private Member Posts: 426 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Canadia Member No.: 70 |
Its an upgrade of my far-too-buggy WinME And its on a supported IDE cable running 133 -------------------- A British company is developing small computer chips that can store music
in women's breasts. This is considered a major breakthrough since women complain about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them. |
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Timelapse |
Apr 6 2004, 09:17 PM
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nFm [ not leaving ] Group: Private Member Posts: 33 Joined: 2-April 04 Member No.: 80 |
Did you check your task list? Open up task manager (ctrl-alt-del, task manager) and see if there's a program that's taking up 100% of the processor or a ton of memory.
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Songi |
Apr 6 2004, 09:39 PM
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Sensei Group: Moderator Posts: 560 Joined: 18-March 04 Tournaments Won: 1 Member No.: 7 |
upgrade on WinME? i would recommand doing a fresh reinstall with a full windows ex. that should get rid of all your problems and give you an increase in performence like Boss was talking about
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Boss429 |
Apr 6 2004, 10:22 PM
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Buckled Up Group: Private Member Posts: 623 Joined: 18-March 04 From: Canada Member No.: 18 |
maybe even partion the 80gig HD it to too parts, windows and the rest.. maybe 4-5 gigs for windows, that way if you need to formatyou wont lose as much data, you can even set where you want hte My Documents stored.
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Pikaporeon |
Apr 6 2004, 10:47 PM
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Advanced Curveball Champion! ...Then I Defy You, Stars Group: Private Member Posts: 426 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Canadia Member No.: 70 |
Timelapse, ive played with my Task List extensivly
Im wiping the drive. before i repartition it, is it possible to make it so i could give a gig to Windows 3.1 (i like tooling with it for nostalgia and some CADing programs that run faster on it) and the remainder for XP? I have only dealt with partitions very loosly (i know how to do them, and thats about it) -------------------- A British company is developing small computer chips that can store music
in women's breasts. This is considered a major breakthrough since women complain about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them. |
Boss429 |
Apr 7 2004, 01:10 AM
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Buckled Up Group: Private Member Posts: 623 Joined: 18-March 04 From: Canada Member No.: 18 |
seems like you may either have to gowith a third boot option inyour setup. to have XP, 3.1, linux
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DutchKid |
Apr 7 2004, 10:17 AM
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Institutionalised Nutcase Group: Admin Posts: 576 Joined: 17-March 04 From: The Netherlands Member No.: 6 |
Yeah that's possible Pikaporeon. You can easily do that with Partition Magic. It's easier than FDISK.
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PimpScourge |
Apr 7 2004, 05:04 PM
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Broken As Designed Group: Admin Posts: 529 Joined: 17-March 04 Member No.: 2 |
yep, don't even think on repartitioning without PartitionMagic. That app makes that task easy.
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Pikaporeon |
Apr 8 2004, 02:44 AM
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Advanced Curveball Champion! ...Then I Defy You, Stars Group: Private Member Posts: 426 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Canadia Member No.: 70 |
Luckily my WinXP CD came with PMagic ^^
Ive toyed with some settings and ive actually totally redone my PC, optimizing my second drive more, as RedHat was useless due to lack of support for my componentry. -------------------- A British company is developing small computer chips that can store music
in women's breasts. This is considered a major breakthrough since women complain about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them. |
Bearsland |
Apr 8 2004, 03:14 AM
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Pikaporeon |
Apr 8 2004, 03:22 AM
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Advanced Curveball Champion! ...Then I Defy You, Stars Group: Private Member Posts: 426 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Canadia Member No.: 70 |
thanks, il drop it. (unless the staff says its within their limits)
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in women's breasts. This is considered a major breakthrough since women complain about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them. |
captbics |
Apr 24 2004, 09:09 PM
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nFm [ Level 1 ] Group: Full Member Posts: 217 Joined: 24-April 04 Member No.: 90 |
I set up the partitions on my PC with Partition Magic, and then used BootMagic to select which partition I boot from. I have Win98SE, WinXP Pro #1, and WinXP Pro #2, plus a data partition.
I do a lot of home automation and embedded processor playing around, and I still have to use Win98SE to write directly to the serial ports reliably (uploading programs into a single board computer). captbics This post has been edited by captbics: Apr 24 2004, 09:10 PM -------------------- O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
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