computer troubleshooting question

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i moved my computer over to my drummers house to do some recording and since then it seems to be running alot slower. could something have come loose during the moving that would make it run slow? what can i do to check?
 
You may have damaged the hard drive and now it is using more head seeks. There are utilities that come with the OS, I forget what their called now, that will mark off damaged sections of disk and improve performance.


...I want to say FDISK, but I KNOW that's not it...
 
nope, do not fdisk, you'll loose all your data...

no errors? try defragging and see if it takes longer than usual...

install any new software?
 
Defraggin will definitely line up your data in rows to allow for easier access and shut of data areas of your disk that are not working properly.

The cells that are damaged will be fixed or at least an attempt to fix them will occur.

But lots of things could have happened in transit. But whatever you do do not fdisk. That will erase your hard drive and OS:)
 
i turned off norton anti virus and defragged again and it seems a bit better now... so that i dont have to start a new thread... my computer's processor is 1ghz(i think its a pentium 3), i have 640 megs of ram.. and i want to install either a delta 1010, or a 1010lt, will this be sufficient for recording with that many tracks? is there any way to optimize my computer to make it work better for recording?
 
Rocket Boy said:
my computer's processor is 1ghz(i think its a pentium 3), i have 640 megs of ram..
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It is not impossible to have 640 megs of RAM, but still the number looks a bit odd. If this is not a typo, did you have this memory all along, or have you just added something? If, for example, you had 512 mb stick and added 128 mb stick, this may actually slow your computer down. Some motherboards don't like RAM sticks of mismatches sizes and types.
64 mb of RAM (if this is what you have) is not enough for reasonable music application. You will be much better off with 512 mb of good RAM, which fits your mobo specs.
 
not trying to play holier than thou but...

a new mobo, processor combo wouldnt hurt much...you can get a 1.4 celeron for cheap....thats about the cheapest i know that they still sell...are you on pc100 or pc133 ram?
 
If its either pc100 or pc133 you do need more memory like put it up to the max allowable by your system.

Being a 1ghz machine you need to look up the model number and see how much ram is will support. If it only supports 1 ghz of ram (which should be enough for a while) Then your fine but do not go out and get more the system can read.

That will majorly slow down your computer.

If you are running on pc100 you can use pc133 ram but not vice versa that will also slow down your machine or wont work at all. I suspect you have 4 slots then 4 sticks of 256 will work perfect for you. And since its a 1 ghz pent 3 then if is more then likely pc133.

But it will probably only support 1 ghz of ram however you never know till you look up the model.:)

But your system will work now, the sound might drop out later on.

The new ram runs like double or more. If your running on DDR ram OR SDram then your all set for a while:) And I know some gateway models with sdram at the 1ghz level.:)
 
CHKDSK! THAT'S what I was trying to think of. God, I am dating myself. That command was part of MS-DOS 1.1! And you know what? I just ran it on my WinXP Pro box and it's still there! Cool!
And yeah, I actually remember DOS 1.1, y'eahr young whippersnapper...
 
it's actually 640... is there any way to check all of that other stuff you guys mentioned without cracking open my computer?
 
If you know the manufacturer of your computer you can go on there site and run a search with the specs of your machine.

Also look on the back for the serial number and run a search on that as well.

The only other way is to find the name of your mother board (by opening it up or when booting up hitting set up which is difficult to explain here:( then you can run a search on the mother board itself:)

Anybody else have any ideas?
 
well maybe i will just open it up and look then.. cus obviously you guys could help me alot more if you knew exactly what i was dealing with here.
 
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