Hi,
I am using a system with MSI motherboard model K7N2G-L. CPU is Athlon 2400Ghz. Memory 1.5GB (Corsiar DDR2 512 x 3). Graphic card is Albatron GF4 Ti4200 with 128mb. No overclocking was done. My system has a DVD-RW drive, DVD-Rom drive, 2 units of internal IDE hard disk and an external USB hard disk with independent power adapter. System PSU true power is at 350W.
I'm already using this PC for more than 7 years now. I know that this system is already old. But I mainly use this system to surf net, do assignments and watch movies from hard disks. It was fine for my type of usage until recently.
3 weeks back, my system which was working fine suddenly (within an hour) became so slow that even moving mouse cursor is not smooth anymore.
For example a single file (700 mb) transfer from one partition to another or external HD will take hours to complete. If I do multiple file transfer (~4 gb) the system will simply hang after about an hour without even completing the 1st file transfer. Watching movies from hard disk is torture.
Suspecting some programs (which I installed recently) might have corrupted the registry; I did formatting of my C drive and installed fresh Windows XP Pro SP 2. Once I finished installing, my PC was back to normal. However when I downloaded and installed all latest software which I was using previously, my PC became noticeably slow. But it was still fine. When Automatic Windows update finished updating my OS to XP – SP3, my PC already started showing the original symptoms. This eventually will go bad to worse.
I even bought latest Windows XP SP3 CD pack and tried fresh installation again. Still same.
Surprisingly, from task manager I noticed my CPU usage is not high. On average idle condition it will be around 5%. When I start, for example firefox, it’ll go up about 100% but only for brief moment than it drops back to 10%. When I do file transfer, CPU usage will be at 15% most. When I watch movie, it’ll hover around 30% - 75%. There will be around 800mb of Ram still available when I’m running these applications.
I’m not sure what is causing my PC to run so slow. I even changed from Avast to Norton IS 2010, updated and scanned the all the harddisk. Another symptom is when I stress my PC by running more than 3 applications like file transfer/copy, surf internet, downloading and at same time open/play movie, the PC will struggle to work for short period than suddenly restart as if there is a power failure.
Note: I changed my PSU 4 years ago since the 1st one failed.
Sorry for these long comment. I’m just frustrated and exhaust of idea to move forward.
Can anybody suggest how to overcome this? Thanks.
I am using a system with MSI motherboard model K7N2G-L. CPU is Athlon 2400Ghz. Memory 1.5GB (Corsiar DDR2 512 x 3). Graphic card is Albatron GF4 Ti4200 with 128mb. No overclocking was done. My system has a DVD-RW drive, DVD-Rom drive, 2 units of internal IDE hard disk and an external USB hard disk with independent power adapter. System PSU true power is at 350W.
I'm already using this PC for more than 7 years now. I know that this system is already old. But I mainly use this system to surf net, do assignments and watch movies from hard disks. It was fine for my type of usage until recently.
3 weeks back, my system which was working fine suddenly (within an hour) became so slow that even moving mouse cursor is not smooth anymore.
For example a single file (700 mb) transfer from one partition to another or external HD will take hours to complete. If I do multiple file transfer (~4 gb) the system will simply hang after about an hour without even completing the 1st file transfer. Watching movies from hard disk is torture.
Suspecting some programs (which I installed recently) might have corrupted the registry; I did formatting of my C drive and installed fresh Windows XP Pro SP 2. Once I finished installing, my PC was back to normal. However when I downloaded and installed all latest software which I was using previously, my PC became noticeably slow. But it was still fine. When Automatic Windows update finished updating my OS to XP – SP3, my PC already started showing the original symptoms. This eventually will go bad to worse.
I even bought latest Windows XP SP3 CD pack and tried fresh installation again. Still same.
Surprisingly, from task manager I noticed my CPU usage is not high. On average idle condition it will be around 5%. When I start, for example firefox, it’ll go up about 100% but only for brief moment than it drops back to 10%. When I do file transfer, CPU usage will be at 15% most. When I watch movie, it’ll hover around 30% - 75%. There will be around 800mb of Ram still available when I’m running these applications.
I’m not sure what is causing my PC to run so slow. I even changed from Avast to Norton IS 2010, updated and scanned the all the harddisk. Another symptom is when I stress my PC by running more than 3 applications like file transfer/copy, surf internet, downloading and at same time open/play movie, the PC will struggle to work for short period than suddenly restart as if there is a power failure.
Note: I changed my PSU 4 years ago since the 1st one failed.
Sorry for these long comment. I’m just frustrated and exhaust of idea to move forward.
Can anybody suggest how to overcome this? Thanks.