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[neptunes]

Ever since I added an additional 256mb ram to my 128mb, my pc has been rather sluggish at times.
My mouse cursor skips when I move it along my desktop.

Most audio (music) gets distorted and skips when it's played for the first time (I have to play through it once) and my music gets distorted when I'm running more than 2 apps at once.

I've re-installed my sound drives and the problem remains, I'm starting to think it's my cpu/processor.

My PC was running xp smoothly before I added more ram.

Intel 900mhz
376mb ram (128mb before)

would a format and re-installation help?

 

[Renegade]

You made your Virtual Memory large as hell :lol

Neptunez get on chat so I can laugh at you :rollin (Oh yeah, and tell you how to fix it)

 

[Teknopathetic]

It looks like something's just chewing up your CPU usage. See if anything's dicking around in your background that shouldn't be.

 

[fart]

remove penis from computer. problem solved!

 

[tedtropy]

Unless you changed some system settings after getting the RAM upgrade, I'd seriously consider the possibility of having bad/crappy RAM installed. Where did you buy the memory? What brand is it, CAS abilities, etc? Faulty RAM can cause all kinds of fun problems...

 

[Pachinko]

My friend had this problem awhile ago. He didn't really add anythingdifferent, I think it was actually a virus. He just reinstalled windows and the problem went away. Also with XP more ram should actually speed things up significantly. I always thought you needed 256 just run xp....

 

[tedtropy]

My friend had this problem awhile ago. He didn't really add anythingdifferent, I think it was actually a virus. He just reinstalled windows and the problem went away. Also with XP more ram should actually speed things up significantly. I always thought you needed 256 just run xp....

Yeah, 256MB is the minimum if you want to just run XP Pro and get away with doing basic stuff, but if you've got a few resource-intensive programs running at once or plan to do any kind of real graphic/desktop editing, you'll definately want more. 512MB is a good baseline to start with on any system these days.

 

[pestul]

Ever since I added an additional 256mb ram to my 128mb, my pc has been rather sluggish at times.
My mouse cursor skips when I move it along my desktop.

Most audio (music) gets distorted and skips when it's played for the first time (I have to play through it once) and my music gets distorted when I'm running more than 2 apps at once.

I've re-installed my sound drives and the problem remains, I'm starting to think it's my cpu/processor.

My PC was running xp smoothly before I added more ram.

Intel 900mhz
376mb ram (128mb before)

would a format and re-installation help?

If your cpu usage is always >10%.. then that is definately your problem. Something is running in the background yo.