Random pc lag, help plz!

If it was your disk hitting 100 then thats your problem!

Damn! thats one blury picture.... But looking at the yellow and blue smudges I might say that you need more RAM?
 
default xp theme without cleartype

beyond vomit

LOL, but that's beyond the point innit
 
Lord Fubar said:
default xp theme without cleartype

beyond vomit

LOL, but that's beyond the point innit
Click to expand...

LOL, You didn't by any chance disable Themes and other services to free up RAM did you??

See how the yellow (pages/sec) line shoots up and the blue line (disk queue) follows? If that is happening under no load, then when the system starts getting seriously out of memory, it will page more, slow the disk more, thus increasing the disk queue more, which will slow the CPU, increasing the RAM usage which will start the process again....
 
Do you have a second drive in you pc/can put in your pc? Please note, not a second partition... Move your page files to that drive and check again?
 
It never use to happen, quite a recent issue (~1month).
I'm not a theme/BG person so I left everything at default, simplicity is best :P
Taking the advice of other forums I have disabled my indexing, I do have a 2nd drive (a 500gb seagate, the one with the firmware problems... my luck never ceases to amaze) which I can move the page files over to, I just need to know how :P
 
Right click "My Computer" and click on "Properties"
Click On "Advanced" tab
Click the "Settings" button under Performance
Click On "Advanced" tab again
At the bottom under Virtual Memory, click on "Change"
Make sure Drive C: is selected and click on "No Page File"
Click on "Set"

Select the other drive and Click on "Custom size"
@ Initial size (MB) enter the recommended size found at the bottom, eg 3069
@ Maximum size (MB) enter the same value.
Click on "Set"

PS: For all other questions while following these steps, click on "Yes"

Click "OK" a few times and restart when asked to.

PSS: Hope I didn't skip anything. :p
 
Physical memory available: 720512K

Kernel memory nonpaged: 20856K

I've moved the page files over to my 2nd Hdd (I was just recommended to set paging file to set automatically) and set it to 1533MB (what it recommended).
 
hmmm... problem seems to be resolved.

so it seems either
1) changing paging file to none primary hdd
or
2) removing indexing service stopped this lag.

what would those things be indicative of? RAM issues? hdd about to die?

thanks again to all that offered any advice.
 
Dr3xus said:
hmmm... problem seems to be resolved.

so it seems either
1) changing paging file to none primary hdd
or
2) removing indexing service stopped this lag.

what would those things be indicative of? RAM issues? hdd about to die?

thanks again to all that offered any advice.
Click to expand...

Great! Glad to help. Moving the page file and disabling indexing should speed things up; although having them enabled on the disk should not necessarily slow everything down (if that makes sense).

Perhaps your disk is faulty, the extra load of the PF and indexing just pushed it over the edge. Try: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1137/mirrors.php. Its a simple disk benchmarker that will give you an indication of how your disk performs. SANDRA also has a disk benchmark module that you could try: http://www.sisoftware.net.
 
Dr3xus said:
PC is about 1yr old

E4600 + Foxconn 45cmx Mobo
1gb ddr 663
7600GT
Windows xp sps3

From time to time during games (which were running perfectly before), my pc would spike to around 1 - 10fps making everything very unplayable. I have also noticed that alt tabbing out the game takes A LOT longer than before (sometimes up to 30 - 40 seconds where previously it was instant).

Now I know I don't have the most high end pc, but I am talking about old games (a la Warcraft 3).

So far what I have done is.
1) Up to date kaspersky -> full virus scan
2) Defragged disk
3) Ran RAMTEST for around 30hrs (no errors)
4) Ran CPU test (3 different ones) for >24hrs
5) Swapped Graphics cards (to a brand new 8800GT)
6) Ran pc off onboard graphics (to make sure it was not the pci-e slot that was bust)
7) Updated/Rolled back graphics card drivers.

etc etc etc :(
Nothing seems to help :/

any suggestions/advice?
Click to expand...

When I recently had this problem it turned out to be a faulty hard drive. :(
 
I'm thinking the HDD is maybe on its way out as well... Indexing will only slow a newly formatted pc, as it has to index everything for faster searching, so I don't think it is that. Page file is something that is always used and sinse more and more things are loaded over time, when you alt+tab, it reads/writes to the page file and reading/writing the info, eg desktop short cuts, the program you are alt+tabbing to...
 
I've downloaded atto 234, what mode should I run it on?

Guess I'm just gonna compare the results on the 2 hdds I have and note the differences? Anything else?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X