600X acting funny

[alfio]

my new to me 600x (on XP Pro) is acting a bit funny. it takes too long to load and the hard drive never quits working (the light is on pretty muchall the time). everything is slow and it seems to be acting as if it were in PIO mode but it isn't (i checked). i used Disk Cleanup and cleaned the registry with EasyCleaner but it's still acting funny. any ideas? tahnks as always

alfio

[pianowizard]

it takes too long to load and the hard drive never quits working (the light is on pretty muchall the time).

Having too little memory would cause these problems. How much RAM do you have in this machine?

[alfio]

Having too little memory would cause these problems. How much RAM do you have in this machine?

you must be right. i cut off a couple of processes and it's not acting as crazy.

it's got 192 right now which must not be enough for even the minimal XP setup i've got going.

i think what threw it over the edge was finally updating the CPU driver and the speedstep started working correctly. either that or that i mistakenly installed some PC66 RAM and got an error 225 (oops).

time for some more RAM

alfio

[tarvoke]

on my 600x I had installed access connections and also the thinkpad configurator... one or both of the two was definitely eating up lots of cpu and memory.

removed both the ibm programs and life is much better in windows-land. (especially check for reg.exe taking lots of resources)