if you don't do anything, and just leave the computer untouched, does it
slow down after a while?

If so, it looks like overheat problem, either CPU or video card or even hard
drive overheat. I've read a lot of messages from many hardware places, there
are a lot of heat problems, especially people don't usually pay attation to
video card overheat, the worst is hard driver overheat, it could result of
data lost or damage of the drive, and seems like nobody ever think hard
drive could be overheated too.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gordon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 1:50 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Computer Slowing Down (Again)


> First, I would like to thank everyone for their kind responses.  However,
> it is still doing the same thing.
>
> Not to rehash old territory, but here is the problem:
>
> 1.  When running a program I have that splits tiff files, when it reaches
a
> certain point, about 7000 files, it slows down to a crawl.  It goes from
> 22ppm to about 1 ppm to eventually about 1 page every 2 minutes.
>
> 2.  The problem seems to manifest itself when playing Freecell also.  It
> plays about 4-5 games well, then the cards seems to get "jumpy".  After
> about 6 games, even clicking on a card to move it causes about a 1-2
second
> delay.  If I continue to play it just gets worse.

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