slow!!!!!!!!!

[hussain124]

hello

right guys my pc is really annoying me, pictures takes ages to load up, its like when i go on gallary on this forum Pictures load in pieces and its very slow . i know my pc spec isnt up to date but it isnt bad by any means, i have just had this problem recenlty :xconfused: any suggestions?

 

[-Woody-]

Im not very PC orientated but from what my brother does to mine its just in need of a good tidy up memory wise and possibly the fan being blocked? Needs good air flow.

 

[hussain124]

i actually stripped the pc and hooverd it from inside but still no luck, regarding memory only 33GB has been used and 119GB left. so dont think that should be a cause of slowing the pc up :xconfused:

 

[-Woody-]

Sounds ok to me then, thats all i got :lol: There any specific programs running? Scans and Fileshare programs used to slow mine down.

 

[hussain124]

no nothing mate , not changed any settings on my pc what so ever for past 4 months

 

[-Woody-]

Can you afford another? Smash the fcuking thing :lol:

 

[hussain124]

its probabaly needs rebooting as had it for 3 years now and never been rebooted.
dont know how to reboot the pc though :lol:

 

[Hoodster]

Do you defrag your hard drive and empty your temp files regular ?

 

[hussain124]

Do you defrag your hard drive and empty your temp files regular ?

i do delete my temp files but never defrag my hard drive :-k

 

[alucardo]

i actually stripped the pc and hooverd it from inside but still no luck, regarding memory only 33GB has been used and 119GB left. so dont think that should be a cause of slowing the pc up :xconfused:

Are you referring to hard drive space?
How much RAM do you have and what Operating system are you running?
Have you ran a virus checker and spyware checker?

 

[hussain124]

i actually stripped the pc and hooverd it from inside but still no luck, regarding memory only 33GB has been used and 119GB left. so dont think that should be a cause of slowing the pc up :xconfused:

Are you referring to hard drive space?
How much RAM do you have and what Operating system are you running?
Have you ran a virus checker and spyware checker?

yes mate thats the hard drive space.

where do you check the RAM? :roll: i clicked on properties it says 2.01 GHz, 448 mb of RAM,?
Yes i have ran a virus checker and its fine

i dont know if the stuff below means any thing to any one

Model : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Speed : 2.01GHz
Model Number : 3200 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR3618 (estimated)
Cores per Processor : 1 Unit(s)
Threads per Core : 1 Unit(s)
Internal Data Cache : 64kB Synchronous, Write-Back, 2-way set, 64 byte line size
L2 On-board Cache : 512kB ECC Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way set, 64 byte line size



Mainboard
Bus(es) : ISA PCI PCIe USB FireWire/1394
MP Support : 1 Processor(s)
MP APIC : No
System BIOS : Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG
System : Shuttle Inc ST20V10
Mainboard : Shuttle Inc RS480-M1573
Total Memory : 447MB DDR-SDRAM

 

[-Woody-]

Have you defragged yet as mentioned above? Thats another that speeds mine up.

 

[hussain124]

Have you defragged yet as mentioned above? Thats another that speeds mine up.

yes mate i have but no really made any difference

 

[BadBadtz]

you need more RAM and a lot more of it...its cheap now too!

Windows runs like a dog on just 512Mb so it'll be caching to your old slow HDD a lot.

I would advise:
Upgrade RAM to 2Gb
Format
Reinstall Windows

Job done!

 

[hussain124]

you need more RAM and a lot more of it...its cheap now too!

Windows runs like a dog on just 512Mb so it'll be caching to your old slow HDD a lot.

I would advise:
Upgrade RAM to 2Gb
Format
Reinstall Windows

Job done!

THANKS MATE, yes i am gOING TO RAM UPDATED, any links to decent RAM? JUST been checking microdirect.co.uk

 

[BadBadtz]

you need more RAM and a lot more of it...its cheap now too!

Windows runs like a dog on just 512Mb so it'll be caching to your old slow HDD a lot.

I would advise:
Upgrade RAM to 2Gb
Format
Reinstall Windows

Job done!

THANKS MATE, yes i am gOING TO RAM UPDATED, any links to decent RAM? JUST been checking microdirect.co.uk

Check out aria.co.uk or ebuyer.co.uk

 

[civic17_99]

Also try www.scan.co.uk and ebuyer for prices on ram. You dont need to buy anything special but ram is cheap now so you should be able to get something fairly good. Corsair stuff is good.