Rick Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 I have a laptop w/ these specs:Presario Athlon 1700+256 MB of DDR PC2100 origingal Ram upgraded with same type 256MB Crucial.30GB 4200RPM HDD256 FSBCan't find video info...I'm thinking it is 16MB memory.My question is this:I keep getting a bottleneck somewhere when trying to open apps and I have to sit and wait for what seems like forever for the computer to unfreeze from a hard drive that is about to spin out of the computer. I kept getting messages that my virtual mem was low so I upped it to 1500MB and 2000MB Max. Can somebody help fill me in on what the deal is here? I have a Duron 900Mhz with less memory at work that runs faster than this thing. BTW--Completely virus free, firewalled, and no trojans.Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HashDump Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 Rick,I can't imagine what it must be like having to access apps, that are continually getting larger and larger, with a 4200 rpm drive. And to add to that demise, you're probably pulling 33 UDMA on the data path from that hard drive.Sorry Rick, but it may be time for you to get that new laptop you've always wanted. w00t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sedative Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 The error is between your keyboard and chair. I'd guess that it's the hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HashDump Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 ROFL w00t I'll have to add that one to my lingo.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted November 13, 2002 Author Share Posted November 13, 2002 The error is between your keyboard and chair.Smart mouth! BTW--I just got this laptop two months ago! Dang! But do laptops come with faster HDD's? I know I can't expect this thing to be as fast as my desktop.Turning up the virtual mem has helped from what I can tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primal Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 Yes its' the hard drive for sure, i use a seagate 7,200 20.4 and it's fast, Also sounds like you might need to defrag that baby a lot just to keep it running smooth.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primal Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 i knew i forgot something ...That's 7,200 RPM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewdatrip Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 Like Primal said i would run a defrag...but try out O and O it seems to work better then diskkeeper 7 and the built in Xp one (well 4 me anyway) But be4 doing that i would runa registry cleaner try the one from JV16 Nice app!Also make sure your Hd is tiddy remove unnessary games apps and temp files etc etc then run the defrag, if using O and O i would reccomend the "Complete/Access" sytle of Defrag..i think it will suite the situation. Try all that and get back to us in the morning=Dr. Drew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 rick your specs are extremely to low for the HD, go to that site you told me about and shop around for a new HD. You can grab a 7200 for the laptop...as far as anything else do as others said, defrag.Oh what OS you running?For now if your running XP turn off all XP services "error reporting, restore, eye candy" then defrag and see if that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted November 15, 2002 Author Share Posted November 15, 2002 Thanks! The last thing you guys needed to tell me is to upgrade. There goes the money in my wallet! What little there is. Until that time...I will defrag a whole bunch...and one thing that made a big difference was increasing the virtual memory. I just hate to be on a computer when I know I got the memory, I got the chip speed, then a darn HDD is slowing me down! Thanks for your help.Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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