I have an AMD 1.7gh machine. not the fastest but not too bad. Ran out of disk space and at the same time decided to upgrade from 512mb to a gig. Put in a 500gb drive as D: replacing a 30gb unit. Slave off the c drive cable. Had a pc2300 512 stick in the unit and bought a 512 pc2700 stick. System hardware installed fine. No tech issues that mattered. Also had a 80 and 150 external USB set of drives. Re-adjusted things and now have 40gb plus free on c, 412 on d and 60gb on the 150 usb. Removed the 30 and the 80 and selling those. Ok after this long winded description let me get to the issue at hand.
I finally started to use the machine exactly as before but with what I thought would be better resources and a faster machine. WRONG. It got so bad that the mouse itself was jerking around. Audio and video were useless. Basically the only way to speed things up was by stopping one of the programs I normally run all night. Even after stopping that app it still was bad but only just adequate. Taskmanager shows idle usually over 90% so no clue what is the cuase. Also checked system settings and they all look good. Any clues would be welcome (I plan on pulling the new ram to see if that might be the cuase - this weekend).
I finally started to use the machine exactly as before but with what I thought would be better resources and a faster machine. WRONG. It got so bad that the mouse itself was jerking around. Audio and video were useless. Basically the only way to speed things up was by stopping one of the programs I normally run all night. Even after stopping that app it still was bad but only just adequate. Taskmanager shows idle usually over 90% so no clue what is the cuase. Also checked system settings and they all look good. Any clues would be welcome (I plan on pulling the new ram to see if that might be the cuase - this weekend).