Intel 1.5Ghz slow down

[Miss winnie]

my intel 1.5Ghz is slowing down like crazy nutter!! it's the old version p4.. i know.. i should hav waited.. but! i have a problem.. my comp is slowing down like a...... i wonder if anyone could help.. i mean like tweeking my cpu?

for instance when i click to open my computer, it takes ages to load. about 5 secs.. i hate this hold back.. anyideas?

[soil]

get a RAMDisk, keep it always powered on, install your OS there, try not to use hard disk, use win3.1 if possible

okay okay:D just get more RAM

[batboy]

Poor Miss Winnie, she's been complaining of this problem since last summer. She's probably really sick and tired of that computer by now. I suggest several things back then including the possibility of it running hot and causing the thermal throttling to kick in. I'm guessing installing a better CPU cooler and using a good thermal paste should really make a difference. Insufficient RAM, a slow harddrive, and/or Windows having lots of registery errors all could be possible problems too.

[Yodums]

Hmm if its Win 98 < - There's your problem!

Try a reformat, refdisk and install something like NT Kernal base(Possibly Win2K as I know you don't have over 256 ) because Win 98 IMHO is very sluggish and very slow after its been all stressed out and it gets laggy after a short uptime since its memory management really is poor.

That should be your first option it is priceless. Second is what I'd say everyone said is heat.

[soil]

run your PC without the case cover afte, using blower or vacuum cleaner to remove any dust cluster, if problem disappear very sure it's heat problem

[batboy]

I think clueless mental midgets built her computer.

[jazztrumpet216]

My simple guesses as a fellow Willamette P4 owner:

1) DEFRAG YOUR HARD DRIVE!!!!! I think this could be the big culprit based on the description.

2) Thermal throttling. I'm guessing you have bad contact between the HSF and CPU. Try adding some ASII or a new HSF. It did wonders in my Dell.

[batboy]

Never even thought about the obvious thing of defragging the harddrive. Yes, that should be done first. Well, second right after running scandisk.

[Grande Juan]

Yes, defrag and clean out some of useless sfuff first. Sounds like a throttle down problem though. What are load temps? What OS are you using? Can you check task manager and see how the CPU and memory cycles are being used?