[access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish video, memory and disk performance

  • From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu" <ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:47:26 +0100

Hi Carol.

You can be sure I will.  If you've any more suggestions I'd all ears *smile*.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carol Pearson 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:42 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish video, 
memory and disk performance


  Let us know when you solve it and what you found to be the culpret.

  --
  Carol
  carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  ---- Original Message ----
  From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:40 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
  video, memory and disk performance 

  > Hi Carol.
  > 
  > Thanks for your advice.  I'm steadily working through my system with
  > a fine tooth comb, removing unnecessary start-up and service entries
  > to see if I can get a better performance.  Its possible something is
  > interfering with the performance tests, so I'm going to get some
  > benchmarking software to do local tests in safe mode to try and
  > isolate the problem.  For me, its not so much sorting out the problem
  > that is the issue here, its trying to find out what the problem is I
  > need to solve *smile*.  As for your suggestion re the bios, the bios
  > in my machine is extremely simplistic it being a phoenix note bios so
  > there isn't much that can be changed, however I'll avail myself of
  > sighted assistance when I have the opportunity and go through it
  > option by option.           
  > 
  > All the best, Ibrahim.
  > 
  > 
  > ----- Original Message -----
  > From: Carol Pearson
  > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  > Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:24 PM
  > Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
  > video, memory and disk performance 
  > 
  > 
  > We once had a very sluggish computer and found that a friend had set
  > something in the bios which was really slowing it down.  Putting
  > everything back to defaults suddenly and miraculously speeded that
  > computer no end!  (Just a thought ...)   
  > 
  > Ibrahim, the other thing is to think back - has this computer always
  > been slow?  Then work out what you installed last etc. and work your
  > way back, hopefully.  
  > 
  > 
  >> Hi Ibrahim,
  >> 
  >> You may need sighted help, but it might be an idea to try running the
  >> tests in Safe Mode if you can, where only a limited set of drivers,
  >> etc., would be loaded.  If you then see a significant improvement, at
  >> least you'll have somewhere to start from.
  >> 
  >> George.
  >> 
  >> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
  >> Behalf Of Ibrahim Gucukoglu
  >> Sent: 11 April 2009 07:44
  >> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  >> Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
  >> video, memory and disk performance
  >> 
  >> Hi George.
  >> 
  >> Well, thanks for your input.  I did exactly as you suggested, indeed
  >> I'm using Auslogics BoostSpeed which is a reasonably good and highly
  >> accessible optimisation and performance management suite.  Alas, I
  >> use Mcafee, but my experience with it is so far good and running a PC
  >> Pitstop test on my netbook yielded much better results, though the
  >> software installed is more or less the same as the software on my
  >> laptop machine with only a few minor issues.  Even the external drive
  >> ran much faster, to the order of around 3 times as fast.  I also
  >> copied a large file to the drive on both machines, exactly the same
  >> file took twice as long to copy on my laptop compared to my netbook.
  >> 
  >> All the best, Ibrahim.
  >> 
  >> 
  >> ----- Original Message -----
  >> From: George Bell
  >> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  >> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 6:10 AM
  >> Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
  >> video, memory and disk performance
  >> 
  >> Hi Ibrahim,
  >> 
  >> Having looked at the Compel specs, and PCPitStop, I wonder if the
  >> latter have played down the results in an effort to persuade you to
  >> buy PC Optimize product?
  >> 
  >> That said, if you have noticed a serious degrading of performance,
  >> the question is how to track down what is causing it.  I guess it
  >> pretty much goes without saying that you've done all the usual things
  >> such as clearing temp files and temporary internet files, defragging
  >> and such like.
  >> 
  >> What sort of Processes are running and taking up processor time?
  >> Many of today's anti-virus programs seem to be hogging system power
  >> these days - indeed I've just ditched McAfee for that very reason.
  >> 
  >> All the best,
  >> 
  >> George,
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
  >> Behalf Of Ibrahim Gucukoglu
  >> Sent: 11 April 2009 05:44
  >> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  >> Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
  >> video, memory and disk performance
  >> Hi George.
  >> 
  >> Its a custom built machine, but the white box brand is Compal and the
  >> model number FL90.  You should be able to find the specs for the case
  >> on the Compal website, but if you can't I'll happily drag up my
  >> invoice with the spec on for you to take a look at.
  >> 
  >> All the best, Ibrahim.
  >> 
  >> 
  >> ----- Original Message -----
  >> From: George Bell
  >> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  >> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 5:24 AM
  >> Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
  >> video, memory and disk performance
  >> 
  >> What is the make and model of your laptop?
  >> 
  >> George.
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
  >> Behalf Of Ibrahim Gucukoglu
  >> Sent: 11 April 2009 03:05
  >> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  >> Subject: [access-uk] problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
  >> video, memory and disk performance
  >> Hi Everyone.
  >> 
  >> Its unusual for me to write to any list with a technical problem
  >> *smile*, but I can't figure out what is happening here so would
  >> appreciate some assistance.
  >> 
  >> I recently started experiencing sluggish performance of my main
  >> laptop pc.  The general spec is a 2.4GHZ dual core processor, 2GB
  >> memory, Nvidia 512MB dedicated graphics chip and Windows XP
  >> professional edition.  The laptop has a 250GB SATA 5400RPM hard drive
  >> and when doing the tests I had my Freecom XXS drive connected which
  >> has 320GB with the same rotational speed.  I ran a series of
  >> performance tests at www.pcpitstop.com which reported that 2D and 3D
  >> graphics were poor, but most alarmingly, the memory performance of
  >> this machine was only around the 400MB mark, yet i have 1066MHZ
  >> memory in this machine.  Also, disk performance was poor, with my
  >> freecom drive only read/write data speed at 9MB whilst the system
  >> disk managed 33MB.  If anyone has any suggestions as to what may be
  >> causing these issues, some ideas would be much appreciated.
  >> 
  >> All the best, Ibrahim.

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