I have two Dell Dimensions. One is new although I bought it used. Both are Pentium 2.4 GH with 1 GB of ram. Now the old one runs fine using XP Pro. However the new one runs slow and lags when your running more than one program. There are no viruses or spyware, hard drive is not full, temporary internet files have all been deleted, virtual memory has been optimized. There are minimal programs running in the background. I run like Word, Dbase, and IE. When you open the Windows Task Manager and watch it, you can see everytime you have a slow down or lag, the meter for the CPU Useage hits 100%. So I can see why it's happening, I just don't know why. It makes it hard to transfer between two windows that I am working on. I dont understand why my other Dell Dimension with practically the same exact resources and configuration and programs running does not lag and this one does?
On the Task Manager it also reads during the incidents Physical Memory Total 1047556 Available 722772 System Cache 594632. I am adding this reading because I am trying to consider if this is a memory issue or other?
Here is the configuration requested:
Dell Dimension 4550
2.4GHz Pentium 4 Processor
1 GB RAM
Intel Pro/100 VE Onboard Network Adapter
Samsung DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
Seagate Barracuda 100GB Hard Drive
Nvidia GeForce 4 Titanium 4200 AGP Graphics Card (128MB)
Creative Soundblaster Live! Sound Card
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1 Shed // Jun 26, 2008
Basically, you have "tons" of RAM free and I run a 1.1Ghz with 512mb RAM and that is fine.
You say the usage hits 100%…what is making it hit 100%?? Because there could be background programs running too, virus scanner?? I can't tell, but just look on task manager for any programs that are using a lot of "resources".
E-mail me at crazyshedlife@hotmail.co.uk if you need any extra help, I will be happy to be of help.
Cheers,
Shed
2 anonymous // Jun 26, 2008
It might be the operating system that is slowing the new computer down. The RAM memory is plenty large to handle three programs open at one time and could not possibly be the problem. If the new computer has Windows Vista, this might explain the slow speed. If you have the operating system recovery driver, try uninstalling it and then reinstalling it. If you keep the CPU usage at 100% for too long, it might force the operating system to crash resulting in the need to reinstall the operating system and possibly data loss.
3 TheShadow // Jun 26, 2008
hmm idk. getting more RAM might help. i suggest at least 2GB of RAM. and what's you video card? is it good?
4 Barry M // Jun 26, 2008
Try booting in SAFE MODE and see if your problem goes away. You may have some hidden program running, even though it sounds like you've shut down everything you can.
You may have a hardware issue, but usually this is a software problem. You're just overtaxing your processor, and you have to find out what is doing it.
I'm guessing it's a hidden program running in the background. A virus scanner, maybe?
5 alenfishman // Jun 26, 2008
i agree, you should probably reinstall the windows os you have for it, its eather a faulty instalation, or there is a hardware problem that is affecting it, if the computer is new, everything should run really fast. if you dont have the os disk just fork over the cash and save yourself some time, from trying to fix this problem. gl
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