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Originally Posted by Old Goat
My computer's proccessor is a full gig faster than my wife's computer and 250meg more ram, but she doesn't have anywhere near the same trouble timing out that I do. I notice my hard drive runs all out for long periods and often, her's doesn't. When it does this it really slows things down. Last time I was in bio I noticed something different about the hard drive but don't recall what it was. Have to go back to check that out some time. I was told by someone my problem is because it is an eMachine but don't know if that is fact.
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i can't see how the fact that it's an eMachine would effect things like that, specially as you say it USED to be fine. from my experience, when a hard drive is working too hard like that, is usually because of either 1. It's having to use virtual ram, which is stored on the hard drive, or 2. the drive needs badly defragging, or 3. the drive is getting full