Nutcutter Posted August 26, 2012 Member ID: 1540 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 13 Topic Count: 40 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 856 Content Per Day: 0.17 Reputation: 100 Achievement Points: 4812 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/28/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 6, 2017 Birthday: 09/20/1969 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Lots of good advice but I'm here to tell ya, you'll save a HEAP of time, trouble and cursing by just reformatting/reinstalling. Been down this road many times. I guess it helps to know what you are doing Harry. hahahaha If you need help backing up your shit.. I will assist you. I will help you get all the drives before you reinstall... but all the cleaners... it will not get them all out. You would have to get HijackThis http://www.filehippo...oad_hijackthis/ and look over the log files or have them read. It is far from easy. You can take the report and post a help question at Experts Exchange http://www.experts-exchange.com/ and have someone there read it. Or you just reload. It is always good to reload.. it gives you a fresh OS. I would be very careful anytime Hxtr offers to help you back up your shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplemod Posted September 24, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 Oh i forgot to come back to this the last time. the guy used the pc about a week and called and it had slowed way down again, so I told him to bring it back. This time I ran Puppy from a live cd, and had the same problem with internet. So format and reinstall would not have solved anything. So I looked through my pile of NIC's and found one just like his, and swapped them out, didn't even have to reinstall drivers or nothin, but it was instantly fixed. i went ahead then and gave him another 512mb of ram for it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Labob Posted September 24, 2012 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8265 Content Per Day: 1.54 Reputation: 5977 Achievement Points: 53619 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 8 hours ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted September 24, 2012 (edited) this post left blank intentionally Edited September 24, 2012 by Labob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
GMoney Posted October 8, 2012 Member ID: 1735 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 24 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 142 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 9, 2012 Birthday: 06/29/1963 Share Posted October 8, 2012 ....and so the $30 machine has cost you $500 in time. I didn't see anyone suggest a simple chkdsk to mark and identify bad spots....or diags run on the disk. I hate legacy hardware even though I still have some. Look at the clock and record the time of death to tell your friend. Don't get me wrong i get these all of the time to work on. Identify them quick to save the time and $$$$. It is all about the Money. G$ PingLo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djMot Posted October 9, 2012 Member ID: 3189 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 93 Topic Count: 355 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 5234 Content Per Day: 1.17 Reputation: 11106 Achievement Points: 48752 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 112 Joined: 02/11/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 22 hours ago Birthday: 12/24/1957 Device: Windows Share Posted October 9, 2012 [From the back of the room was heard] Get a Mac! Okay, all else has failed. Try this - toggle hardware acceleration on your video card. ALSO, and this may be key (dunno, but try it) - in the Dell BIOS there's a setting for the video memory aperture. I'm guessing this may have been a replacement video card and was never configured into the system properly. Could also be that memory is too choked, but I believe someone already talked about memory upgrades. I'll add to it by noting that not all memory is created equal, and you need to get memory that's properly timed for your bus and processor. A mismatch there can absolutely cripple a machine. Might not be noticeable running a simple spreadsheet or document, but put anything bus/core-intensive on it and you get a puzzling lack of performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
CobraBites Posted October 9, 2012 Member ID: 2313 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 330 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 4924 Content Per Day: 1.03 Reputation: 3034 Achievement Points: 33897 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 03/19/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 2, 2017 Birthday: 05/26/1974 Share Posted October 9, 2012 [From the back of the room was heard] Get a Mac! Okay, all else has failed. Try this - toggle hardware acceleration on your video card. ALSO, and this may be key (dunno, but try it) - in the Dell BIOS there's a setting for the video memory aperture. I'm guessing this may have been a replacement video card and was never configured into the system properly. Could also be that memory is too choked, but I believe someone already talked about memory upgrades. I'll add to it by noting that not all memory is created equal, and you need to get memory that's properly timed for your bus and processor. A mismatch there can absolutely cripple a machine. Might not be noticeable running a simple spreadsheet or document, but put anything bus/core-intensive on it and you get a puzzling lack of performance. screw macs ...lol they cant even be used for scraps lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplemod Posted October 9, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Share Posted October 9, 2012 I finished this a while back, it was the network card going bad, stuck another one in it and it works like a new computer again, relatively fast for it's age. I just gave him a little more memory cause I had some laying around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobodygood>XI< Posted October 10, 2012 Member ID: 219 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 492 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 108 Achievement Points: 2906 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 2, 2018 Birthday: 04/28/1957 Share Posted October 10, 2012 (edited) Also go into windows\prefetch and delete all the files in that directory Windows basically stores info in the predetch on the concept that things you use will be available quicker, but in reality it gets so bloated it slows the damn thing down Edited October 10, 2012 by Nobodygood>XI< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Damage_inc- Posted October 10, 2012 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.37 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted October 10, 2012 Delete all the Prefetch files, will speed the boot up big time. anything in the windows \ prefetch folder is not required this fixed my slow firefox browser...thanks for the tip..huge difference now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
WIMMPYIII Posted October 10, 2012 Member ID: 853 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 226 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 646 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 121 Achievement Points: 5685 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/07/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2015 Birthday: 01/25/1988 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Lots of good advice but I'm here to tell ya, you'll save a HEAP of time, trouble and cursing by just reformatting/reinstalling. Been down this road many times. Install windows 7 without formating. The old file system will be put in "windows.old" folder. (but be carful what you open from the old files) That system should run fast enough to run a web browser with trubble if everything is working right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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