hi all, i need some advice here, plz help!
my computer: Prostar 5694 notebook, P4 2.4GHz, 512MB DDR, ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 40GB harddrive, with 4 partitions, and still plenty of free space in each partition. Win98/Win2k Pro dual boot.
i have had my laptop w/ this setup for about half a year now. a strange problem has occurred about a week ago: every time after a continuous heavy load program (like prime95 or 3D game quake3, counter strike, etc) for more than 10-20 min. or so, my computer suddenly becomes very slow. like when i'm playing CS, the movement suddenly becomes very jerky, the counter measure drops from about 60-70fps to less then 10fps. or like during the prime95 torture test, the time to finish one line test suddently increase from about 20 sec. to about 2 min. my computer keeps running slow even after i quit these programs. i run the SiSoft Sandra benchmarks (CPU, CPU Multi-Media, and Memory), the scores after the heavy load drop to less than a quarter of the scores before the load. i have to restart my computer in order to make my computer to run fast again.
i've never had this problem before, i have not installed any new software/hardware recently. don't know why this problem happened so suddenly. it happened under both Win98 and Win2k, i've tried reinstalling both OS, but still coudnt solve the problem. so i'm suspecting it's a hardware problem, maybe something wrong w/ my cpu or memory? is it a memory leak or something?
my computer: Prostar 5694 notebook, P4 2.4GHz, 512MB DDR, ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 40GB harddrive, with 4 partitions, and still plenty of free space in each partition. Win98/Win2k Pro dual boot.
i have had my laptop w/ this setup for about half a year now. a strange problem has occurred about a week ago: every time after a continuous heavy load program (like prime95 or 3D game quake3, counter strike, etc) for more than 10-20 min. or so, my computer suddenly becomes very slow. like when i'm playing CS, the movement suddenly becomes very jerky, the counter measure drops from about 60-70fps to less then 10fps. or like during the prime95 torture test, the time to finish one line test suddently increase from about 20 sec. to about 2 min. my computer keeps running slow even after i quit these programs. i run the SiSoft Sandra benchmarks (CPU, CPU Multi-Media, and Memory), the scores after the heavy load drop to less than a quarter of the scores before the load. i have to restart my computer in order to make my computer to run fast again.
i've never had this problem before, i have not installed any new software/hardware recently. don't know why this problem happened so suddenly. it happened under both Win98 and Win2k, i've tried reinstalling both OS, but still coudnt solve the problem. so i'm suspecting it's a hardware problem, maybe something wrong w/ my cpu or memory? is it a memory leak or something?
