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| Thread ID: 29419 | 2003-01-19 09:11:00 | Way to Go? | ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | Press F1 |
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| 115242 | 2003-01-20 06:01:00 | Hmmm, id suggest that ram is not the cause of the PC mini-freezes. I used to run xp with 256mb sdram, until about 3 months ago, and the only difference it made is that I can switch between resource hungry apps like photoshop (with many large files open) to dreamweaver, and others. I was still able to do this with 256, it just took a little longer to switch. What application/s are you running when these freezes occur? Craig. |
craig_b (2740) | ||
| 115243 | 2003-01-20 06:02:00 | Always Internet Explorer, am using 6.0... very weird indeed...! | ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 115244 | 2003-01-20 06:14:00 | Definately not the ram then - you do not need 384Mb of ram to look at web pages - unless you have several thousand open! To be certain, press CTRL + ALT + DEL when the freezes occur, and look at the performance tab. Check the numbers under Physical Memory. With 384Mb, and only a few apps running, you should have upwards of 200000 listed by available physical memory. The PF usage bar graph should also be in the lower 30% of the bar. When the PC is freezing, what does the cpu usage sit around, if you can find out? |
craig_b (2740) | ||
| 115245 | 2003-01-20 07:17:00 | It is usually the popup ads, etc. But I'll watch next time... Thanks, |
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| 115246 | 2003-01-20 07:24:00 | recent posters are forgetting that while sy may have enough RAM, his computer still uses the disk drive. Computers with restriced FSB's etc or slow disk drives will get a 1second freeze as reported. Tweaking the system can reduce these quite a bit. Proper vcache settings, having DMA enabled, etc all help with this problem. It's not noticed so much in faster computers because 1. The CPU is faster, so less utilisation. 2. faster FSB reducing the various bottlenecks that exist around a system |
roofus (483) | ||
| 115247 | 2003-01-20 07:24:00 | very often when playing music too... | ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 115248 | 2003-01-20 07:28:00 | My computer is P3 550 (overclocked to 616), 384 SDRAM, 17GB Seagate, think 5400rpm, etc. 50x cd-rom, 40x12x48 cd-rw, etc. It frezzes for about 3-5 seconds, its on ADSL Starter, with D-link DSL500 router thanks, |
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| 115249 | 2003-01-20 07:29:00 | yea like i say bottlenecks. I have the same problem on my 400mhz | roofus (483) | ||
| 115250 | 2003-01-20 07:32:00 | I would use the Set Proccess Priority (Press Ctrl+Alt+Esc) on the most important process. Never use Realtime, Above normal is what Id suggest, and use with caution! Your PC should be fine for running it, but what else do you have open?? Run msconfig and see what loads at startup! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 115251 | 2003-01-20 07:34:00 | > yea like i say bottlenecks. I have the same problem > on my 400mhz I run Win2K on my P2 300Mhz with 256MB RAM and there's never ANY problems... M$ .NET RC2 works grand aswell!! Its poor configuration IMHO.. Could be wrong! |
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