Keith Russell
11-03-2004, 10:47 PM
Hi, everyone.
I truly hope someone can help, because I'm at my wit's end.
I posted to one of the Microsoft groups some time ago about a performance
problem I was having, but no one had an answer for me. Since then, I've
reinstalled Windows XP Pro twice, each time hoping that it would help, but
no such luck.
I have a 2.4-GHZ Pentium 4 with 512 MB RAM and two 120 GB hard drives, but
I often feel as though I'm working with a 100-MHz Pentium 1. :-( I've tried
everything I could think of, including minimizing the number of running
programs and disabling any services that I didn't think I needed. I've
implemented ideas I found on the Black Viper Web site. Nothing seems to
help.
I've also experimented with my virtual memory settings. I initially had a
small amount of VM space on c:, with additional space on d: (a logical
partition on the same drive). I tried various configurations of VM, and
nothing seemed to make a difference. So I moved drive d:'s VM onto the
first partition of my second drive. Again, no difference.
I've also defragmented my drives, to no effect.
I've reached the point where I'm wondering if I might have a hardware
problem, which is why I'm posting to the hardware newsgroup. One symptom
that leads to this conclusion is that while I'm working, it seems that I
have almost constant hard disk I/O.
I've run Norton Utilities' disk diagnostics, and it hasn't found anything.
What else can I do to track down the cause of this problem? What other
things (hardware or software) might be causing it?
ANY ideas very graciously accepted! Thanks in advance.
--
Keith
I truly hope someone can help, because I'm at my wit's end.
I posted to one of the Microsoft groups some time ago about a performance
problem I was having, but no one had an answer for me. Since then, I've
reinstalled Windows XP Pro twice, each time hoping that it would help, but
no such luck.
I have a 2.4-GHZ Pentium 4 with 512 MB RAM and two 120 GB hard drives, but
I often feel as though I'm working with a 100-MHz Pentium 1. :-( I've tried
everything I could think of, including minimizing the number of running
programs and disabling any services that I didn't think I needed. I've
implemented ideas I found on the Black Viper Web site. Nothing seems to
help.
I've also experimented with my virtual memory settings. I initially had a
small amount of VM space on c:, with additional space on d: (a logical
partition on the same drive). I tried various configurations of VM, and
nothing seemed to make a difference. So I moved drive d:'s VM onto the
first partition of my second drive. Again, no difference.
I've also defragmented my drives, to no effect.
I've reached the point where I'm wondering if I might have a hardware
problem, which is why I'm posting to the hardware newsgroup. One symptom
that leads to this conclusion is that while I'm working, it seems that I
have almost constant hard disk I/O.
I've run Norton Utilities' disk diagnostics, and it hasn't found anything.
What else can I do to track down the cause of this problem? What other
things (hardware or software) might be causing it?
ANY ideas very graciously accepted! Thanks in advance.
--
Keith