[access-uk] Re: Sluggish PC
- From: "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:23:50 +0100
Hi Bary - thanks for this.
What does the event viewer show, and how should it be read to understand what
it is saying? And, what will "swop out the ram" do, and again, how is this done?
Regards -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Toner
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 8:29 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sluggish PC
Andy,
Without running diagnostics on it or looking at the Event Viwer under Admin
Tools, it's hard to say for sure. It sounds like old components. 8 years is a
good run and I'd say the machine owes him nothing at this point.
I'd not spend too much time on it considering it's age if it was me. You
could have a look through the Event Logs and swop out the RAM if you want to
troubleshoot it.
Is it rebooting at random times? This is a good indicator of failing RAM.
How about the Processes tab in Task Manager? What's the CPU running at?
Barry.
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
ANDY COLLINS
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 8:37 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Sluggish PC
Hi all -
A friend is running an xp service pack 3 machine. He's sighted, and only
really a lite user. His machine only has 256mb internal memory, but was running
ok until a few months ago, when everything slowed down, and it started taking
say about 2-3 minutes for programme to load, or shut down. I got him to do a
defrag and disc clean up, and run antivirus software, but with no improvement
to his problem
The machine is 8 years old. Is there anything else we might consider that
could help speed it up, or is the most likely problem a failing motherboard in
an old machine?
Like I say, it has never been heavily used, and use to perform at a much more
acceptible pace.
Thanks for any ideas shared -
Andy
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