Re: K7S5A pro VERY sluggish at times

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:17:12 -0700, In this world we created "thomas"
<> wrote :

>hi,
>
>here's what I've got:
>
>k7s5a pro
>athlon xp 2000
>win xp sp1
>2x 256meg pc133
>160gb ata100 ide0
>15gb ata66 ide1
>matrox g400 agp
>sb live
>modem
>honeyx bios
>
>what I've noticed is that if the computer is doing anything memeory
>intensive, the entire system becomes extremely sluggis - to the point of
>maximizing/minimizing or moving windows around takes seconds - 5 to 10
>
>while the cpu remains at about 15-20%
>
>examples of when this happens:
>running a virus scan on very large files
>loading/viewing very large movies
>
>when this happens, it usually requires a reboot (or hibernate/wake up).
>
>could there be some sort of conflict/etc? it's starting to drive me nuts
>while the same types of activities with a similar equipped pokey P3 @550mhz
>doesn't seem to have the same slowdown.
>
>thanks a bunch,
>thomas
>

This is most likely just WinXP.
There's lots of tweaking to do like disabling file indexing on the
drives and enabling the Conservative pagefile.sys usage(Cacheman).
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/freeprog.html
Also a good registry cleaner like the free scrubxp,
http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=1667
Which also has a load of tweaks in it's Misc Tab.
Then there's,
http://www.wide-screen.co.uk/xptips.htm
That should keep you busy
If you hate the balloon tips,
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_d...alloontips.htm
and of course the new XP TweakUI,
TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...id,2803,00.asp

HTH





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