1. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx
I'm unsure why people have an issue with this procedure. In no uncertain words, if you write back you "looked" and didn't perform the procedure, then we are done and I wish you the best of luck. Sorry if that seems harsh, but I am trying to save us the usual 4 exchanges...
2. Pests and Parasites.
It's my choice to allow no pests found with the 5 tools I note at http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6132-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=1313&start=0
If you allow such pests on your machine which are NOT detected with your Antivirus because they are not Virus/Trojan, then that's your choice and I hope you share that you kept the pests.
Hope you fix it,
Bob
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I've noticed over the past few weeks that my computer has been abnormally sluggish especially regarding hard drive read/write times. When I load a program, lets say Word2003, it just seems like it hesitates (hard drive makes normal hdd reading noises) and then finally the program launches and works fine. So basically there is abnormal lag time in launching programs etc.. I've compared my laptop with my friends who has a similar speed Celeron with 512 and it seems like his blows mine away!
I am running WindowsXP Professional on an HPze4325 NOTEBOOK.
It is an AMD2000+ (runs at 1.67GHz)
512megs of ddr Ram
40Gig Hard drive (23 gigs of free space still)
64 Meg ATI video card
I have done all the regular maintenance checks...
Spyware programs are run regularly
Anti-virus checked
Defragged (several times)
Check system processes running (nothing big or unusual)
Cleared the startup folder
Ran MSCONFIG, cleared startup programs from taskbar.
Virtual Ram is system managed (i think its at 644 usually).
Ran Burnin tests, said everything was fine but the hard drive was kinda slow? Not sure what they compare it to, ofcourse its slow compared to a desktop hdd.
Ran Memtest86, no errors found.
Last night I ran scandisk for the first time in a LONG time.
It breezed through everything UNTIL it got to step (4 out of 5) which is the File Checking System? That process took FOREVER. I mean I started it at 1:50am and it was on about 25% around 2:15am and I fell asleep. When I woke up the computer was on the windows logon screen so I assume everything is ok!?! How do I know if there were errors?
Are there any other tests or benchmarks that you could recommend so I can figure out where my problem lies? Anything I should checkout or test?
One last thing... I have 2 slots for ram, each is filled with 256 chips to = 512.
I have a best buy gift card for $150.00 and I was thinking about going out and getting two 512 chips to = 1024 of ram. You think that would make a drastic difference? I don't really do anything intense, just web browsing and word processing. I occasionally draw maps in Illustrator 10 but other then that, I do nothing intense. I have maybe but one game on the computer and it doesn't use graphics.
Thanks,
Mike

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