Hello all, I am new to the forum, and am hoping someone with some more experience can give me a tip on my problem.
I have an HP TouchSmart tx2, here's my specs:
Vista 64bit
AMD Turion X2 Dual-core 2.1GHz
4.0G RAM
285G Hard Drive (80 of which is being used)
I also have a Seagate Free Agent External HD (296 of 298Gb Free)
My problem is that I have just a slight lag sometimes. I can live with the little notifications letting me know downloads are complete in my icon tray being "jumpy," but what I can't deal with is poor video quality. The frames are too slow, the audio is choppy, and it doesn't matter where the video is coming from. The same thing happens when I am in Google Videochat, the lag is awful. I don't think its a problem with the video driver because sometimes there is lag running other things. I will admit I don't know how to check to see if I need to update my drivers.
Another snag I thought might be causing the issue is my CPU usage, which right now if fluctuating between 60-90% with just firefox and task manager open. Physical memory is 50%, and there are 89 processes running. Is all this normal?
Could the external hard drive that is always plugged in be drawing resources away from CPU speed? I notice the same problems even when the HD is disconnected once in a while.
Thanks in advance for any help.
-John
I have an HP TouchSmart tx2, here's my specs:
Vista 64bit
AMD Turion X2 Dual-core 2.1GHz
4.0G RAM
285G Hard Drive (80 of which is being used)
I also have a Seagate Free Agent External HD (296 of 298Gb Free)
My problem is that I have just a slight lag sometimes. I can live with the little notifications letting me know downloads are complete in my icon tray being "jumpy," but what I can't deal with is poor video quality. The frames are too slow, the audio is choppy, and it doesn't matter where the video is coming from. The same thing happens when I am in Google Videochat, the lag is awful. I don't think its a problem with the video driver because sometimes there is lag running other things. I will admit I don't know how to check to see if I need to update my drivers.
Another snag I thought might be causing the issue is my CPU usage, which right now if fluctuating between 60-90% with just firefox and task manager open. Physical memory is 50%, and there are 89 processes running. Is all this normal?
Could the external hard drive that is always plugged in be drawing resources away from CPU speed? I notice the same problems even when the HD is disconnected once in a while.
Thanks in advance for any help.
-John
The average home-user's system has anywhere from 40-50ish running at once; you have double that. If you have a lot of things going, your CPU resources could be spread too thin. Post a list of what's running and we can help you 'clean' things out that aren't needed to run constantly.