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McGraw · 02-06-2005, 10:37

See my sig. XP SP2

Examples:

Leave my machine defragging overnight. Come to it in the morning to find it still on 80%. Think "Oh well, it's a perfectdisk aggressive placement defrag, perhaps it's supposed to take that long". Come back from work to find it on only a few % more. Try to use the machine and it's completely unresponsive.

Playing FS2004 and the frame rates just drop to appalling levels and it takes about 5 minutes to come out of the game.

Using photoshop and it takes longer to open pics than it does on my work pc which is a 600mhz with 256mb of ram.

When any of these things happen, it takes 5 or so minutes to get Windows to shut down.

I have a firewall, anti-virus, spybot and my defrag program only runs when I tell it to.

It hasn't happened for a while and I was wondering whether this might be causing it:

When playing multi monitor FS2004, moving a 3d window to the other screen sometimes caused it. Now I've updated from cat 5.4 to cat 5.5 it (touch wood) hasn't happened since.

Could the Catalyst multi-monitor software have been causing it?

I have another problem due to multi-monitor that I am going to outline in another thread.

Thanks for any advice.

02-06-2005, 10:37	#1
McGraw Inactive Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Manchester Posts: 993	PC randomly goes ultra-slow See my sig. XP SP2 Examples: Leave my machine defragging overnight. Come to it in the morning to find it still on 80%. Think "Oh well, it's a perfectdisk aggressive placement defrag, perhaps it's supposed to take that long". Come back from work to find it on only a few % more. Try to use the machine and it's completely unresponsive. Playing FS2004 and the frame rates just drop to appalling levels and it takes about 5 minutes to come out of the game. Using photoshop and it takes longer to open pics than it does on my work pc which is a 600mhz with 256mb of ram. When any of these things happen, it takes 5 or so minutes to get Windows to shut down. I have a firewall, anti-virus, spybot and my defrag program only runs when I tell it to. It hasn't happened for a while and I was wondering whether this might be causing it: When playing multi monitor FS2004, moving a 3d window to the other screen sometimes caused it. Now I've updated from cat 5.4 to cat 5.5 it (touch wood) hasn't happened since. Could the Catalyst multi-monitor software have been causing it? I have another problem due to multi-monitor that I am going to outline in another thread. Thanks for any advice.