HELP

[Hussain]

i have been facing this problem for over a year now . I was windows 7 64 bit installed , every 1 month or less my computer slows down to a cripple and there are no viruses each time detected . Reinstalling windows fixes is temporarily , if i could get a permanent fix for this it would just be awesome . MY specifications if needed are 3 gb ram , AMD Athlon 64X2 4800+ 2.5 ghz , and a nvidia gt 220 . my hard drive status is good so a bad hard drive is not a possibility ! please help

[EmoChipmonk]

The only think i can think of would be assuming your other parts are fine is your Hard drive is giving a false status, I think luke did a Fast as possable about S.M.A.R.T. That HArd drives use.

[Hussain]

1 minute ago, EmoChipmonk said:

The only think i can think of would be assuming your other parts are fine is your Hard drive is giving a false status, I think luke did a Fast as possable about S.M.A.R.T. That HArd drives use.

So why does the windows reinstall temporarily solve the slow down ?

[EmoChipmonk]

Mabey Needed or used data is being written to bad sectors after some time of use? Other then that i always recommend upgrades

[Hussain]

most of the time it happens after installing service pack 1 

1 minute ago, EmoChipmonk said:

Mabey Needed or used data is being written to bad sectors after some time of use? Other then that i always recommend upgrades

 

[Hussain]

4 minutes ago, Hussain said:

So why does the windows reinstall temporarily solve the slow down ?

WMIC did not give my any results just wmic:root\cli>

[WkdPaul]

Thread moved to the appropriate section

[kennethnakasone]

First question would be: what have you already tried?

 

It'd help if you could identify what component is being affected the most. Is your computer becoming unresponsive because the CPU is being taxed, or is it because something's reading/writing to the hard drive at full speed, or something else? Have you performed memtest on your RAM? If SP1 frequently preceded the slow-down, then how did the system respond to disabling Windows Updates? 

 

By the way, the phrase you're looking for is "slowing down to a crawl" (instead of cripple).

[Hussain]

1 minute ago, kennethnakasone said:

First question would be: what have you already tried?

 

It'd help if you could identify what component is being affected the most. Is your computer becoming unresponsive because the CPU is being taxed, or is it because something's reading/writing to the hard drive at full speed, or something else? Have you performed memtest on your RAM? If SP1 frequently preceded the slow-down, then how did the system respond to disabling Windows Updates? 

 

By the way, the phrase you're looking for is "slowing down to a crawl" (instead of cripple).

The cpu is not being taxed as of now but 1.5 ram is being used while browsing and cpu usage goes up to 60 % while browsing 

 

[kennethnakasone]

8 hours ago, Hussain said:

The cpu is not being taxed as of now but 1.5 ram is being used while browsing and cpu usage goes up to 60 % while browsing 

 

...is your computer slow right now?

[Taswell]

High ram usage causes computers to be crippled, so does high hard drive usage if it is a mechanical drive. You know what loves to eat both of those things....google chrome and steam.... it might be time to look at a new computer or at least a ram/hard drive upgrade. you could get a 120GB ssd  and 4gb ram for around 100$ or just get a new computer.   

[Hussain]

Just now, kennethnakasone said:

...is your computer slow right now?

While gaming like playing fifa 14 it did not lag but now it is unplayable and is little bit sluggish . my problem starts like this but then it gets really slow and then it becomes unusable and does not boot . 

[Hussain]

1 minute ago, ITheSpazI said:

High ram usage causes computers to be crippled, so does high hard drive usage if it is a mechanical drive. You know what loves to eat both of those things....google chrome and steam.... it might be time to look at a new computer or at least a ram/hard drive upgrade. you could get a 120GB ssd  and 4gb ram for around 100$ or just get a new computer.   

Well i am saving for a computer build it will be about  i year to 6 months so i have to use this till then

 

[Hussain]

And before installing sp1 i got two long line  beeps  too !
 

[Taswell]

1 minute ago, Hussain said:

Well i am saving for a computer build it will be about  i year to 6 months so i have to use this till then

 

well then i would try to keep as little stuff open at once. 

 

startup options -windows key + r --> enter msconfig ---> uncheck everything. reboot the computer ( saves on ram usage and faster startup)

 

make sure windows update is not running in the background eating your hard drive,  start menu -->(search box) windows update ---> do not check for updates automatically 

 

Don't let steam,origin, or any other clients run in the background unless you don't mind them using resources freely. (there is the option to change them from running minimized or in the system dock) same thing with chrome, but I think they did away with that feature.

[Hussain]

1 minute ago, ITheSpazI said:

well then i would try to keep as little stuff open at once. 

 

startup options -windows key + r --> enter msconfig ---> uncheck everything. reboot the computer ( saves on ram usage and faster startup)

 

make sure windows update is not running in the background eating your hard drive,  start menu -->(search box) windows update ---> do not check for updates automatically 

 

Don't let steam,origin, or any other clients run in the background unless you don't mind them using resources freely. (there is the option to change them from running minimized or in the system dock) same thing with chrome, but I think they did away with that feature.

i dont use origin or steam and only 2 windows at a time are open !

 

[kennethnakasone]

8 hours ago, Hussain said:

While gaming like playing fifa 14 it did not lag but now it is unplayable and is little bit sluggish . my problem starts like this but then it gets really slow and then it becomes unusable and does not boot . 

I can't comment on FIFA 14 getting slower over time, but anyway, it's hard to diagnose your issue just based on the symptom. In this case, it could be the CPU being too weak, not enough/defective RAM, slow/defective hard drive, the operating system doing stuff in the background, etc. 

 

Try having the Resource Monitor open while you go about your day. Next time the system slows down, see what kind of activity is going on in the Resource Monitor and report back.

 

Regarding the Beeps: find your motherboard's manual and look up its beep codes.

[Hussain]

1 minute ago, kennethnakasone said:

I can't comment on FIFA 14 getting slower over time, but anyway, it's hard to diagnose your issue just based on the symptom. In this case, it could be the CPU being too weak, not enough/defective RAM, slow/defective hard drive, the operating system doing stuff in the background, etc. 

 

Try having the Resource Monitor open while you go about your day. Next time the system slows down, see what kind of activity is going on in the Resource Monitor and report back.

 

Regarding the Beeps: find your motherboard's manual and look up its beep codes.

i was just doing that right now i had about 30 to 40 percent cpu and 1.5 ram gb usage

[Hussain]

it just went up to 83 percent cpu usage while watching a video

[Hussain]

My computer essentially is a HP dc5750 MT  with 3 gb ram and gt 220

[kennethnakasone]

8 hours ago, Hussain said:

My computer essentially is a HP dc5750 MT  with 3 gb ram and gt 220

Keep track of these when your computer starts to slow down, and when it gets so slow that it hangs. I don't care about how these values look when the computer is working fine.

 

CPU Usage (%)

RAM Usage (%)

Hard drive Usage (KB/s Reads and Writes)

Ethernet Activity (Kbps)

 

Also, pull out the manual for the computer and figure out what the beeping meant.

 

Once you get all that information, then report back.