Big Problem

[rastaman]

Alrighty, I have been running my Celeron 466 @ 566 for about a year now, and it has never been smoother. I also have a Voodoo3 2000 @ (143) @ 160, which has been running for a year. I booted up yesterday, and Windows 98 crashed. Well, I booted up again, and it started, but everything is running unusually slow. I have checked the resources being used, and the memory is not the problem. Please help.

 

[WarDemon666]

If you have a Cd burner or a second hd copy it and format. There might be a problem with the software.

 

[hungrypete]

If a couple of reboots wont fix it, youll have to format.
Does anyone know what causes this "crazy slow" thing that happens? I fight it alot in some of our NT4 workstations, they just get dog slow (like 386 speed) for no apparent reason. If reboots didnt fix it, I've never found a way besides formatting that helps...

 

[optoman]

I usually reformat my computer about every six months. Even with win2000, it still tends to slow down because of the installing and uninstalling of stuff. I kind of think of it as hardening of the arteries for the computer. You put too much crappy software and it slows things down until you need to do a major reinstall of everything.

Sorry I couldn't help with your problem.

 

[Noriaki]

Yup...I'm with optoman, I have recently bought a copy of Drive Image so I can install everything to my satisfaction and then image the drive and then use that for a re-format only faster...Windows just won't run forever without being re-installed as a PC.

I've got some WinNT server boxes that are fine but they just run, they don't get software installed and uninstalled all the time or anything...so they are pretty good. But all the transient software seems to clog windows eventually.

 

[roc919]

Try to set everything back to default speed (not o/c'ed). If the problem persist, then its reformat o'format time.