[Solved] The Problem of slowing Down....

[Creamtoast]

Ok so i've had my computer for about two yrs now ... never had any problems i couldn't fix ... well until now.

ok so the problem is that my computer suddenly just slowed down or smthing .. and it is a big problem.. Games run slow and take long to load.. music actually laggs while i'm listening to it and browsing the net.. also videos on youtube or anywhere else start lagging in full screen..

soo any ideas ?? i would appriciate help on this matter.

 

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Here are two Pics to demonstrate where the problem shows the most:

 

1. start playing some music in media player.. on the desktop it plays smoothly

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2. i start browsing on the web... if i load new pages or even if i scroll up and down,

the music starts lagging for that period of time

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THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP IN ADVANCE !

[Plastic Nev]

Hi and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.

This sounds like something is hogging resources or memory here.

So to start, let us see what is running in the task manager, click start, then type in the search bar "Task Manager" Click the "view running processes with Task manager". A small window should open, click on the processes tab if not already showing, then scroll down the list looking for high figures under "Memory"

 

In your reply, can you please let us know how much RAM memory you have installed as well as whatever may be showing anything over 400,000K.

Also in the bottom right of the task manager it should show percentage of memory in use, let us know that figure as well please.

 

Nev.

[Creamtoast]

The Task manager was where I looked first ... nothing unusuall there .. here is a pic of the processes running before i start browsing or playing games:

(srry for the language, i'm from slovenia)

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My Percantage of use is currently at 31% when i'm not doing anything...

Also, i have 3 Gigs of RAM on my PC

As for the processes that are showing more than 400,000K .... Games mostly (for example skyrim shows 669,000K)

[Plastic Nev]

Hi, you said sound is OK until you start something else, browsing the net or a game perhaps. I am a little suspicious of memory (RAM) going faulty and although you are supposed to have 3GB, if a module is faulty it could be significantly less. Considering there is so little running in processes, I would expect a lower percentage of the total memory available than that 31%.

Try running a Memtest next and let us know the result.

Memtest can be downloaded from here =

 

http://www.memtest.org/

 

Our Jelly Bean wrote a useful guide on its use here=

 

http://extremetechsupport.com/threads/7172-Memtest86-How-to-Run.

 

Memtest can take several hours to run, so best to do it when out for a while or if doing something else.

 

Nev.

[Creamtoast]

nevermind.... solved it by reseting my memory :D thx for your help though.

[Plastic Nev]

Hi, I guessed it was a memory problem and that maybe set you thinking, well done for sorting it and thanks for letting us know.

 

Nev.