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 Oct 20 2007, 11:24 PM
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Oct 21 2007, 05:33 AM
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 Still visually handicapped, new avatar :0) Group: Global Moderator Posts: 15,531 Joined: 2-October 05 From: Southeastern CT, USA Member No.: 35,824 |
Could you provide us with your system specs (system make and model, processor, RAM, hard drive, video card, etc). If you don't know this info, you can find it with this free download: http://www.gtopala.com/index.html
Also, please take a look at your Event Viewer. To do this, go to Start and type in "eventvwr.msc" (without the quotes) and press Enter. Click on the + sign by Windows logs, then click on both the Application and System logfiles. Please note any errors that you see. Finally, please go to Start and type in "perfmon.msc" (without the quotes) and then press Enter. Click on the Reliability Monitor and let us know what errors show up there. -------------------- - John
**If you need a more detailed explanation, please ask for it. I have the Knack. ** BTW - the avatar pic is a camel as it looks back at me while I'm in the saddle (and he wasn't happy!) |
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Oct 21 2007, 10:55 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 20-October 07 Member No.: 164,338 |
1.73GHz Intel® Celeron®M Processor 430(1Mb L2 Cache, 533MHz Front Side Bus)
15.4" WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen Display 80GB (5400RPM) Hard Drive 512MB DDr2 SDRAM (1 Dimm) Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (64MB Available RAM) Event Viewer: The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. |
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Oct 22 2007, 04:32 AM
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 Forum Addict Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,875 Joined: 25-November 04 From: Finland Member No.: 5,870 |
Your machine is generally a little underwhelming when it comes to running Vista, but the bad block is the biggest problem. Run chkdsk c: /f /r in an command prompt (you get one by writing cmd in the start search).
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Oct 22 2007, 06:24 AM
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Still visually handicapped, new avatar :0) Group: Global Moderator Posts: 15,531 Joined: 2-October 05 From: Southeastern CT, USA Member No.: 35,824 |
I've got an Acer laptop with only 512 mB of RAM (and Vista Home Basic), I've also run an older Toshiba with beta versions of Vista Ultimate on only 512 mB of RAM. While RAM isn't the only problem that could be causing the slowdown - it's the most likely one outside of the bad block on the hard drive.
A bad block will cause the computer to search more times for the data it needs - which will slow the system down since accessing the hard drive is usually the slowest part of running Windows. After the bad block problem is fixed you'll probably still notice the slowdown. FWIW, I put another gig of RAM into the Acer the other day and it picked up a bit (but not as much as I'd expect 1.5 gB to do) - but this is an office computer, so it may be related to things that the users have done to it. My Toshiba runs Vista Ultimate quite well with only 1 gB of RAM (I use it when traveling) and I have no issues with it (although I have tweaked the performance settings a bit). -------------------- - John
**If you need a more detailed explanation, please ask for it. I have the Knack. ** BTW - the avatar pic is a camel as it looks back at me while I'm in the saddle (and he wasn't happy!) |
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