Month after month. Fed Up.

Hey guys,
I've had my system for months now and I have gone through countless scans and the system is always lagging as if there is still spyware running in the BG.
Its a 1.9ghz Pentium 4 with 384mb of RAM(SD) , running XP home SP2.
We have maybe 4 games installed and a few low-use programs that are very low profile.
I am honestly very fed up with simple games like WoW running laggy even in Window mode when the video card is a fx 5900 Ultra.
I have Wireless NIC connected along with a regular 100mb Lan connection(when 1 is running the other is always disabled).
There is no unknown devices or anything in Device manager.
I even have upgraded the VIA chipset thing running MSI's liveupdate in the past.

Well I hope you Major's n Sarg's have some good advice for me.
Thx for your input if any

Sincerely,
Private Geek

 

^ There's your problem, most likely.

m19

 

Not necessarily, my P3 with 384mb ram ran pretty fast.
Have you done all the usual defragging, disc cleanup, and downloaded c cleaner and cleanup! which should help clear up some unused files?

 

Were you running XP/SP2, though? Regardless of whether that's the major problem, that's still a pretty paltry amount of RAM these days.

Just a suggestion.

m19

 

Yes both.

 

By lagging you mean slow network connection or just bad performance?

I totally agree, especially SDRAM

 

Well little did I know my co-worked must have change the motherboard or something a few weeks back because we are not using SD anymore.
I took a look today and its 2 sticks of 128mb Samsung RD ram and 2 sticks of Samsung 64mb ram.
Am I still in the same situation even though its RD?

 

well that depend on what frequency the bios is set. I'd suggest you remove the samsung 2x64 simms and see what happens.
(it's called the bottleneck, if you have 2 fast and 2 slower simms, the pc will be as slow as the slowest memory bank because he they just can't handle higher speeds)

 

I think he has more than a RAM issue. While more RAM would be nice, his system should not be crawling with 384 mb. I have a 1.4, WinXP(sp2) with 384 mb of RDRAM (and its pc600 - slow memory), and my computer runs quite smoothly, including gaming.

 

Exactly, 384mb of ram is fine for basic use and shouldn't make your system crawl. I had a Pentium 4 2.4ghz with 256mb ram and it went pretty quick.

 

Have you tried RegScrubXP and dumping the prefetch?

I didn't see it mentioned, but maybe everyone just thought it was implied... you do use Ad-Aware right?

 

how much stuff do you have starting up? can you give us a screen shot or two?

start/run/msconfig, then the "startup tab". also how much stuff is by your clock? - sos

 

I have a dell 1.4 with two 128 RDram, and I was told by Dell and a computer friend that IF I want to add more RDram, I have to put in two more 128 RDrams.
If I was to put in two 64 RDram, the computer would only see the smaller of the two.
In other words, I can't mix up the RDram. True?