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ok heres the situation, I have a xp home computer with a 250GB HD over a gig of ram, new motherboard, and absolutly no spyware, malware or viruses. the system drags and lags. I have edited and tweeked beyond belief on this thing trying to speed it up and have done some good but it doesent even compare to another computer that i have with less ram and a smaller processor ( it Flies ). both FSB speeds are the same so i am not understanding why the xp home lags so bad. It usually takes three times the time to boot, open mozilla, or any program for that matter. not sure what to do about it help....
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Posted 19 November 2008 - 09:55 PM
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Posted 19 November 2008 - 10:42 PM
What does taskmanager show as far as CPU/memory usage when it is lagging?
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Posted 19 November 2008 - 11:14 PM
thats the odd thing it looks normal, it will jump to like 40% for a second then back to normal 2%, i cant figure it out
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Posted 19 November 2008 - 11:16 PM
Do you know the actual model of your processor? Single/Dual Core? Clock Speed?
XFX 680i SLI Board w/ Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4Ghz
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Nvidia 8800GT 512Mb DDR3
4Gb DDR2 Memory & 500Gb 7200RPM SATA HD
Rocketfish 700W Power Supply
Windows XP Pro (LastXP)
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Posted 20 November 2008 - 12:13 AM
try doing a chkdsk /r
Start/run/chkdsk /r/click ok
notice the space between the k and the /
At the command prompt type the letter y press enter
chkdsk cannot run at this time...another volume is using it
restart your computer....
and run a cleaner heres clean-up
http://www.stevengould.org/index.php?optio...9&Itemid=70
Defragment your harddrive
start/run/dfrg.msc/click ok
click defragment.......
Start/run/chkdsk /r/click ok
notice the space between the k and the /
At the command prompt type the letter y press enter
chkdsk cannot run at this time...another volume is using it
restart your computer....
and run a cleaner heres clean-up
http://www.stevengould.org/index.php?optio...9&Itemid=70
Defragment your harddrive
start/run/dfrg.msc/click ok
click defragment.......
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