Re: Slow machine

Joe McElvenney wrote:

Hi,

Today I got around to looking at the problem 'slow machine' once
again. As it happens I went into my local "Computer Medics" shop to
buy some RAM to upgrade it with and told my tale of woe. They
immediately said, "If the processor is working that hard, try changing
the HDD," which is just what I did as I had a 60GB thingie hanging
around. Whatever the problem was - a nasty, a duff drive or finger
trouble, I don't know but it is OK now. Oh! and of course, the upgrade
to 512MB of RAM didn't do any harm either.

When doing diagnosis like this, you should take one step at a time and make damned sure you can take a step back in time.

This is no criticism of what you have done, you have fixed the problem, but you are now in a position where you are not sure what the fix was.

It could have been as simple as the hard rive needing a good defrag, or that it had run out of space for the swap file.

Both things that you have changed would amount to the same thing at the end of the day. The drive could have provided more space for the swap file, or the ram could have reduce the requirement for a swap file.

Regards

Dave
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