Weird slowdown after running for 20 minutes..please help!..FIXED!

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TheLeviathan

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I have reformatted and re-installed Windows ME about 2 weeks ago. Everything was running fine. This machine is for my daughter. She told me that after 20 minutes that the machine slows down, starting hardly noticeable and progresses to darn near a solid freeze up. So I check it out and , yup, that is exactly what is is doing. Ater a reboot, it runs just fine again. Problem seems to show up after the machine has been suspended and then woken up. After reboot, 20 minutes later it starts slowing down again! I just don't have a clue. Can you please suggest any possible thing that is causing this?

Thanks!
Duron 700@850 8.5x100 1.7v pencil trick
Epox 8KTA+
250w PS
128MB Kingston
Geforce GTS 32
Creative Live Value
Linksys 10/100
Maxtor 45 GB
CD-RW
DVD

MBM says temps are good all the time, never gets over 41
Maybe the pencil marks? But it boots fine and runs fine for awhile.
Any help at all will be greatly appreciated!
 
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Duvie

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That kingston memory is pretty generic crap...try another stick if you have it...could have a memory leak. Diagnostic programs could check this..

I agree heat isnt the factor at least for the cpu...41 is fine...how about cooling for harddrive?

Also go into power management and turn system standby to never and hdd to never...see if 20 minutes still applies.
 
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TheLeviathan

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SiSandra gave me decent scores on memory. This system has run good for a few monthes. HDD is set to go off in one hour. As it was "slowing" I opened "System Monitor" and took a look at the memory stuff. I don't know what I was really looking at but it said that I only had 12MB of Free physical memory. Just the normal crap running in the background, such as virus scan, etc... Then after a reboot it works well again and says there is 48MB free memory. Even if there is only 12 MB free mem, shouldn't it still run half way decent on the swap file? How do I keep crap from "sticking" in the RAM? What is a memory leak?
 
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Memory leakage is a condition where applications are opened but Windoze does not free-up the physical memory after they are closed. This is indicative of the way in which Win9X/ME manages memory but not WinNT/2K. The NT OS'es are much more effective at managing memory but also require more of it.

Getting back to the probllem with your daughter's machine, try disabling programs that load on boot (ie antivirus, realplayer, etc. - basically everthing that appears in your task tray) and see if the problem goes away (it should). Then try enabling them (one at a time) and see where your slow-down occurs.
 
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TheLeviathan

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I believe that I have found the problem. Devldr16. The machine did its usual trick of slowing down again, so I open the task manager and( with the computer barely moving by this time) click "end task" for this file and the computer magicaly starts running at full speed+ again! I don't know why I picked this app first but I did get lucky. It was something that I did not recognize and figured it should be shut down. I suspect it has something to do with the DOS sound driver. Does anybody know what this app does? I can still play wavs and mp3's etc... Well, thanks for the help, this was driving me nuts!:D

It was probably doing this since the format/re-install but, it had never been run long enough to see the slowdown develope. It took around an hour or hour and a half to show, not 20 minutes as previously stated. Why would this behave this way in the first place? Crazy Windoze ME!
 
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Leviathan,

I don't recognize that file name but you could be right about DOS sound drivers.

I'd recommend you try:

1. Disable SB emulation in Device Mangler and see if your problem disappears.
2. Search your registry and/or system files for "devldr16" and see where it takes you.

It seems you are making progress. Let us know what you find.
 
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sgopal2

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You can use this trick to find out what the associated startup file was going to be used for:

After the system boots START->RUN Programs -> msconfig

This will bring up the msconfig utility on WinMe that will let you see exactly which files are loading on startup and selectively disable one at a time.

Hope this helps.
 
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