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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
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19th Oct 06 at 10:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Slow at starting and shutting down. HD not going, just hangs. Works perfectly apart from that. It's got tons of work on and i have tons to do so can't be bothered formating
Melville
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Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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19th Oct 06 at 10:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
New HDD with os on and second HD for data
Marc
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19th Oct 06 at 11:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Defrag?
Bart
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19th Oct 06 at 11:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
As melville said.

Defrag is really on benifical if your hard disk is full up.
--Dave--
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19th Oct 06 at 11:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
could be spyware/adaware eating up resources. Have you checked for those?
topshot_2k
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19th Oct 06 at 12:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
or Norton!!
kz
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19th Oct 06 at 13:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
run de-frag...

followed by AVG, Ad-Aware & Spybot
Liam
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19th Oct 06 at 14:05   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Melville has got it right, get a small HD for the OS, and use the other, to keep all your files on etc, I will be doing it soon, much better.
Melville
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19th Oct 06 at 14:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yup, Im right. This is the King Kong way of speeding up a PC. Once it gets slow again then you can just wipe the HD with the os on it.
Andrew
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19th Oct 06 at 14:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Not that much on the drive really. See sceen shots. Have two 250GB SATA 150 drives in. Is it best to just have the operating system on one drive and then all the applications on another?
Andrew
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19th Oct 06 at 14:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Melville
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19th Oct 06 at 14:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
IF you only have 7 gig on there then it certainly shouldnt be slow

Could well be adware.
Andrew
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[Edited on 19-10-2006 by Andrew]
Andrew
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Melville
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19th Oct 06 at 15:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Hardware problem? Are you running 4 monitors or is that a copy and paste job?
Andrew
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19th Oct 06 at 15:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
The drive is sound. Yeah i'm running 4 monitors.
--Dave--
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19th Oct 06 at 16:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
could be a memory problem.

Or a problem with the OS install perhaps.
Andrew
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19th Oct 06 at 17:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
The BIOS test says the memory is fine though?
--Dave--
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19th Oct 06 at 19:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
try with just one stick in there, then the other.

Could be a whole load of issues to be honest. I would re-install the OS first

 
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