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The Old Compaq Had a nervous breakdown!

Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by jtrnr1951, Jul 9, 2010.

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  1. Jul 9, 2010 #1
    jtrnr1951

    jtrnr1951 Road Train Member

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    Of course I lost lots of data, nothing to important !!!

    So I manage to reload it, got everything updated, but.....

    it's running sluggish. It never was very fast, but now it's much slower.

    I'm no geek, I ran crapcleaner, have it protected from viruses etc.

    Also defraged , optimized etc.....no help !!!!!

    Is it just kinda partially paralyzed from the crash ????

    I am not putting a penny into this old antique, I'll dig out my apple II first !!

    Any ideas ???? Thanks.........
     
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  3. Jul 9, 2010 #2
    rookietrucker

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    Luv the headline :biggrin_2559:

    A few questions first ?

    What O/S (operating system) are you running ?

    How much memory does your system have at the moment ?

    If your not sure, right click My Computer on your desktop and scroll down to click Properties. That should open a screen with that information I'm asking.
     
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  4. Jul 9, 2010 #3
    jtrnr1951

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    XP home ed service pack 3

    512 total available physical 69.......is that way to low available ????

    available virtual 1.9G
     
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  5. Jul 9, 2010 #4
    rookietrucker

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    Bingo !!! There is your problem or lack of memory. Look your system up on Compaq or HP website and see what the limits for memory are. Then shop around on the net for cheap memory for your system.

    Just guessing, I'm thinking it will be either 2 or 4gigs. Also take into consideration, If the system does not have it's own video card. Your memory is being shared their as well. I just upgraded a old ASUS system with the same thing. They only had 512mb of memory. I installed 4gigs and the thing flies. Cost was around $120 for the memory.
     
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  7. Jul 9, 2010 #5
    jtrnr1951

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    Wait a minute, help me out here, something is stealing memory !!
    I already doubled the original memory....it came at 256MB.

    2 days ago it ran fine, at a decent clip, not real fast.....but liveable.

    Since I revived the old gal, I haven't added back half of what was in there before.
    So it should be running as fast, if not faster than before.

    Does that make sense to you, sometimes my keyboard confuses my words.
     
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  8. Jul 9, 2010 #6
    rookietrucker

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    IMO, XP runs smoother on 2 gigs of memory. If you really really don't want to spend any money on the darn thing. Go in your control panel, and turn some of the services running in the background off. That is the best and only advice I can give you at this point without adding some more memory.

    Also, when XP first came out. It did not have all the updates or service packs then. Which made it run smoother with 512mb
     
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  9. Jul 9, 2010 #7
    jtrnr1951

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    Thank You .

    much appreciated.
     
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  10. Jul 9, 2010 #8
    tinytim

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    You would think so. Have you added any security stuff that wasn't on there before, or maybe a different version of it?
     
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  11. Jul 10, 2010 #9
    Pur48Ted

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    I might also suggest replacing the HD.
    Hard drives tend to fail either when brand new or around the two year old mark.
    Computers with failing hard drives also run sluggish, because they are always trying to read data on sectors that may be bad.......fresh OS install or not.
     
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  12. Jul 11, 2010 #10
    wsyrob

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    Bingo. All that bouncing around in the truck has to take a toll eventually. You can buy a new laptop for $400.00. I plan to upgrade mine every 4 years as a cost of doing business. My ACER will hit 3 years in November. Christmas 2011 I will have a new one whether I need one or not. Then ole faithful will be the back up.
     
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