New Computer?

[brandon184]

Im running an old Pentium 133Mhz with 16MB RAM and a 1.01 GIG Hard Drive.. Within the last few months, I've noticed the hard drive access time slowing down, and the processor a bit sluggish, and the LED light indicating hard drive access sometimes goes crazy, because it seems to go crazy every time I try to do ANYTHING.. is this is sign of a upgrade or something? New Computer?

I've heard my type of system is very hard to upgrade sometimes.

[800XL]

I'd check to see if you have some free space on your drive. Clean out some things you don't use and then run defrag on the drive. When the drive gets full, Windows starts to have trouble managing its swap file and will do pretty much what you describe. Once you get some free space, and then defrag the drive, you should see some improvement.

For upgrades, I think you might start by looking for some RAM. If the machine is almost able to do most of what you want, more RAM will help it do it much better. 32-64MB of RAM would be a real change and cut down on the disk activity you are seeing as well. Is this a brand name machine? Have the model number on it? We might be able to suggest more.

[joe]

Add 32mb RAM and reinstall WIn95.

[CMonster]

Ditto 800XL and Joe:

Adding memory is usually a very easy upgrade.

Having only 16 MB of RAM with Win95 is choking the life out of your system. A 133 mhz CPU is not bad but at very least you need 32MB of RAM, 64 is even better.

*If you had a 200mhz with only 16MB of RAM it would not run as well as a 133 with 64MB.

[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 05-31-99).]