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Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 07:05 AM


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It sounds like it could be that your swapfile being badly fragmented.  If that is the case, running defrag should help.  To do it right, deactivate your swapfile, reboot now running without virtual memory.  Run defrag.  Again reconfigure your machine to reactivate the swapfile.  Reboot once again so that the swapfile is once again created.

If you can tell how big a swap file that you will need, configure the system to use a fixed size swapfile so that once it is created it should not fragment again.  If you have a spare partition or harddrive, you may want to put your swapfile there instead.  That way having the swapfile in a partition by itself, it will not have to compete with the other files.

Here are a couple of easy to fix hardware problems that could be causing the system to slowdown.

1. The system may be having cooling problems, so when it get overheated, the bios slows the system down to help keep it cooler.  Some causes and solutions:

The a fan is not working.  Reconnent the fan.   If it is dead, replace it.  Unless your CPU carrier has an intergrated fan replacing it should be simple.

The heatsinks and/or motherboard is dirty, dust and dirt is a thermal insulator so can cause over heating.  Open the case and vac or blow the dust and dirt out of the system.

2. Some memory card or socketed intergrated circuits have become loose.

Open the case check and reseat all socketed intergrated circuits and make sure that the memory cards are fully seated.  Let's say you have 256Meg of RAM using two banks of 128Meg cards, if one of the cards is detached or malfunctioning, you effectivly have 128Megs of RAM rather than the 256Megs that you think you have.  Your BIOS may report at boot time how much working RAM you have installed, check the reported figure and make certain that all of your RAM is being reported.

The foregoing suggestions are made under the assumption that you are familiar enough with eletronics to feel confortable with these corrective measures.

Pangor


