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Name: Tony
Date: May 27, 2002 at 07:46:41 Pacific
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I'm running a P3 866 with 256mb ram, 64mb Hercules video card and a ATA100 7200rpm hd. I currently have win 2000 installed. The problem is that recently, my computer has been running very slow, like a P 100 or something. I reinstalled win 2000, but the same problem occurs. It is like the system stops responding for a while, then it starts up again. It takes a few seconds to a few minutes to load any program. I'm thinking it is hardware, but I don't know what to look for. Any help would be great.



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Name: 666
Date: May 27, 2002 at 09:10:34 Pacific
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do yuo ever defrag your partition(s)? Did you install Service Pack 2?



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Name: Tony
Date: May 27, 2002 at 10:06:46 Pacific
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I just formatted and then re-installed win 2000... there is no need to defrag. And I did install sp2. All updates are installed. I don't think that it is the OS bec it was giving me the same problem with win xp.


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Response Number 3
Name: Tony
Date: May 27, 2002 at 11:11:34 Pacific
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Thanks for the tip, but I have used XP already and I get the same problem... very slow.


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Response Number 4
Name: 666
Date: May 27, 2002 at 18:55:28 Pacific
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you have to defrag. just do an analyse and see how bad it really is. Every time I install 2k and XP its really slow until I run defrag


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Response Number 5
Name: Bob
Date: May 28, 2002 at 22:41:10 Pacific
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Is your machine getting too hot? Make sure all of the fans are running - funny noise?


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Response Number 6
Name: ouch2
Date: May 30, 2002 at 06:22:51 Pacific
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is cpu-cache enabled in bios?


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Response Number 7
Name: Tony
Date: May 30, 2002 at 09:33:09 Pacific
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The cpu and mobo temp is fine. The cpu-cache is enabled in the bios.

I just re-partitioned my drive into even smaller parts and I reinstalled win2k. So far it seems to be working fine, but we will see since this is my 6th time reinstalling win2k and winXP. I tore my computer apart and reinstalled every component and checked every bios setting.

I will post with more info when it comes up.


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