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mechanymagazine · October 28th, 2002, 08:01 AM

I have to reboot for performance???? what the?
It seems the longer i leave my computer on, the slower it goes, and i'm talking about like matters of 15-20 mins and i have to restart the comp to play a game.
It seems, if i load programs, and close them, they stay in memory, bogging the computer down heaps. I have no evidence to back this up this is just a theory, but what can i do to fix it. After a reboot, and if i dont load any programs its fine, but just say im playing a counterstrike, its running fine until the next map loads, ill be in the next map and then the computer has split second freezes every half second.
Things then are really reaaaally slow to load, even loading my computer can take a long time, and after loading it the hard drive ticks for ages after. Maybe Hard Drive? ahh im just guessing, but sometimes i get errors saying im out of memory even when i dont have programs loaded! And no theres no hidden programs running in the background chewing up memory. Apart from winfox.

I'm Totally Stumped, what have i done, or what can i do to fix it, ahh i need help please lol.

System Spec
Ga 7vrxp
XP 1800
XP PRO
Leadtek GF 4 TI 4200
SB Live 5.1
256 meg pc 2700 ddr
20 gig HD

**Whir** · October 28th, 2002, 08:24 AM

Sounds like you've got some programs or possibly virii sitting in your memory. Does this happen even if you just let the computer sit idle after booting it up? What other programs do you run in your system tray? ICQ is famous for being a memory glutton.

nomadman · October 28th, 2002, 08:30 AM

hmmm, sound like either you have a memory leak or your memory has gone bad if you don't have any other program running. try download memtest, you can search for it at google, to see if it's ok or not. you will usually get lots of errors during the test if it's bad.

btw, what memory and OS are you running?

chapmc · November 2nd, 2002, 10:48 PM

Be sure and do a virus scan.

Morganbane · November 5th, 2002, 03:59 AM

Get memturbo. Of course, you can't guarantee that it will actually make a performance difference... but nonetheless, it looks good to have big numbers

Heh.. also, how fast a hard drive are we talking? A system like that would be held back by a crappy old ata/66 drive.. I was using a quantum fireball 17, a fast hard drive in its day, but when I upgraded to the maxtor ata/133 I noticed a lot faster load times. Didn't improve my 3dmark score, though.

My girlfriend had the *out of memory* error a lot with her computer... are you running a virus scanner in the background or something? Anyway, I got her to install win2k, and it cleared it up.. you're not using ME, are you?

RustyGT · November 5th, 2002, 04:32 AM

Quote "I dunno what section to put this in"

'Tech Support' or 'Apps and Ops' would have done.

But address your quiz.
You've listed the h/ware and some of the apps.
Really need to list the OS.
When describing a System.

Some above, have mentioned Ram flushing Utes.
Cure the symptom. Maybe.
But not fix the problem.

Does look like mem leak.
So what OS?

ChrsR.

Brainchild · November 5th, 2002, 05:04 AM

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XP 1800
XP PRO

nomadman · November 5th, 2002, 06:20 AM

go here: http://www.memtest86.com/

no use in troubleshooting the software if your hardware is bad.

you might also want to look in the registry "run=" and make sure that their are no program that might cause this problem.

mechanymagazine · November 14th, 2002, 04:39 AM

Finally I fixed it

, memory tests showed nothing wrong, i thought maybe it was the Hard Disk, so at long last i decided i'd do a standard format. and rather than putting it to NTFS like last time, i kept it Fat32
Fixed it, but still i dont know what caused it, whether it was a dodgy hard drive layout or software.. i dont know but its never been better and runs 24/7 without a hitch.
Thanks for your help anyways