hp,progressively slower, contention

While I was evacuate to Sacramento, because of Hurricane Katrina,
I decided to upgrade my memory to 1.2GB. Since then, periodically
the computer will slowly grind to a almost dead halt. I have not been
able to notice any incidence or event which seems to precedes the
slow-down event. I almost always have to just power-off, to get out
of the situation. The reaction reminds me of the old 2 ports with
the same address, causing contention. The only item which has occurred
of note is sometimes when I shutdown, I will get the "~Closing Card
reader driver ... End Now/Cancel" first, then varies other dialogs.
Any ideas
Any Help would be appreciated
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Gary L. Mullin
Biloxi, MS 39532
228-396-8701

Gary Mullin <> wrote:
> While I was evacuate to Sacramento, because of Hurricane Katrina, I
> decided to upgrade my memory to 1.2GB. Since then, periodically the
> computer will slowly grind to a almost dead halt. I have not been
> able to notice any incidence or event which seems to precedes the
> slow-down event. I almost always have to just power-off, to get out
> of the situation. The reaction reminds me of the old 2 ports with
> the same address, causing contention. The only item which has
> occurred of note is sometimes when I shutdown, I will get the
> "~Closing Card reader driver ... End Now/Cancel" first, then varies
> other dialogs.

_Which_ HP computer do you have? Also, while I suppose one might
guess it is running Windows from the last sentence, which rev of
Windows (or other OS) is it running?

Also, if you "downgrade" back to the previous quantity of memory does
it run better?

Have you scanned for virii/spyware etc recently?

rick jones
HP-UX/Linux guy but tries to help where he can
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