ACER laptop slow down after installing programmes: HELP!!!!

"Wim" <eisingspam RemoveThis @iafrica.com> wrote in message
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> It seems I have found the culprit of my slow machine. I read on the
> internet the following: (@ forum.sysinternals.com)
>
> High interrupt rates on I/O are often associated with the transfer
> mode for an IDE device having reverted from DMA to PIO. Pre-SP2
> versions of XP in particular were rather sensitive to errors and would
> flip to PIO mode. They needed to be reset to "DMA if available" in
> Device Manager, usually by uninstalling the IDE driver and letting
> Windows reinstall. Check out MS KB article 817472 here.
>
> If not I/O-related then interrupts are possibly malfunction or bad
> connection in another device - try re-socketing connections.
>
> Posted: 23 August 2005 at 1:29pm
>
> IDE set to PIO.. uninstall, reboot, DMA 5... yeah fast system again!
>
> Thanks so much I would have never looked there..
>
>


Great, glad it's sorted and thanks for posting back the resolution.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

i have also had a similar problem with my acer travlmate 2414lmi. it
totally slowed down to a point where i decided to replace the hard disk
(quite drastic i know - but it eventually died on me) as it resulted in
it totaly slowling down and refused to multitask.

however with the new hard disk, everything seemed fine for a while.
just recently it has started to majorly slow down, the only background
application i have running mcafee. to open firefox takes forever.

i have not added any updates to my machine either or have many
applications and if i happen to listen to a cd, the processor goes mad
and the hard drive goes mental - and it basically sounds like there are
cockroaches in the machine!

no one has been able to help me out on this issue yet! looks like the
only option is to go back to the sytem default and go through the whole
process of adding what you need etc which is a pain!


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jai