Why is my Celery 1.2Ghz so slow?

redballoon said:
Windows XP is a OS from 2001, his old system is over the recommended specs and he's just talking about web browsing on it *shrugs*

Not quite a joke topic then.
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And Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, even that should easily run on this and I remember it did, I used to be hooked onto this game and it was smooth as butter on the exact same system yet it's not now for some reason. I don't know if its driver related, one would think so but I cant see how it is since WXP should have the drivers for a system this old in.

I just cant believe some of the comments the other people made, it angers me, first trying to insult me and they don't even attempt to read the OP then try call me stupid for attempting to run Windows XP on this system without knowing what Windows XP is capable of running on!!!!
 
Could it be possible that the wrong drivers were installed by xp during install?

Seen it happen before on a very old laptop (300MHz/192Mb ram) and xp ran fine till an update was done via m$ and the wrong chipset drivers were "updated".

Just my 2 cents :)

nija edit: beaten to it :)
 
I ended up using this old ghost CD that I got with the PC, it installed Windows XP Home, I dont know if it was Windows XP SP1 or just the standard one but that had different GPU drivers on and with those the amount of ram it was using was 4MB compared to 32MB on the Windows XP installation I did have one that I complaint was running slow :confused:

Its not much faster I think and less laggy.
 
I think the problem lies with xp sp2 and sp3. My gf sony vaio 2.8Ghz pentium, on board graphics, 512mb used to run xp like a dream 4 years ago when it was new (as far as everybody remembers it)

It was running painfully slow and I have just wiped it, fresh clean install with original Sony xp discs, full windows update and antivirus program reloaded and it still runs like a dog.

Takes 5 mins to boot up and be usuable (as in when you click of something it actually does something instead of the egg timer)

I'm actually thinking of wiping it again and leaving it as xp service pack 1.
 
make sure windows update isn't turned on, and don't install defender, ie7 etc..

that really really kills some older pc's now

don't install an AV on there


i've got a pii-400 with 384 mb, (nlited xp pro), runs utorrent, firefox & media player classic at the same time (divx video) with no problems

might be hard drive on the way out?
 
Cant be HDD I have tried 3.

I got SP2 on now as without SP2 I was worried about security issues and all that if I never did any updates, seems to be running OK although it is definitely slower with SP2, I might nlite the SP1 install.
 
install a strict firewall like ghostwall

it's tiny and totally rule based (no program rules though), but its stops everything on it's way in
 
I've got a p3 700Mhz laptop with 256mb RAM that runs XP SP3 with IE7 fine. Download nlite and use it to remove drivers, services and bloated crap from xp that you don't use (such as the original Windows Messenger) and it'll run fine. Just be careful you don't remove something the computer really needs (although nlite generally advises you really well). Also turn off disk indexing.

It's a shame about trolls who think the answer to everything is upgrading, some people don't have that luxury or want to put their old hardware to some good use :rolleyes:
 
I can't quite tell if you've already done this or not. But have you tried re-installing xp? Makes a hell of a difference to how fast my pc runs whenever I do it, even on a q6600
 
Sorry but a lot of people in this thread don't seem to know what they are talking about.

Yes you are not going to get blistering performance from a system with only 384MB Ram, however I've had 300Mhz machines with 128MB RAM run XP smoothly. My laptop has a 1Ghz Pentium M cpu with 256MB RAM and it runs well.

Don't install SP3, it seems to slow things down on older PC's. Stick with SP2.
 
willhub said:
I installed XP fresh on it and its still crap, I dont think I need to install loads of drivers like for mobo and graphics as XP SP2 installs them themselve.
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Right, first thing I would do is install chipset drivers, followed by drivers for everything else like gfx, sound, network etc. HD performance can be decimated by a lack of chipset drivers. Also check the drives are working at the correct speed (UDMA5 / ATA133 or whatever)

To the naysayers, 384meg RAM is fine for XP if you are not running many apps.

May as well get SP3 on there too.

Check in task manager to make sure nothing is hogging the cpu, I know my dad's machine had an issue with windows update a while back whereby it would cause svchost to max out 99% cpu for hours on end.
 
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There can be many reasons why your PC is starting to crawl.

First off Google Chrome is a new application. I very much doubt it was designed with the Intel Celeron 1.2Ghz processor in mind. Like with any new programs, they really work well on newer hardware.

Drivers, Do you have all of the drivers installed for Motherboard, Graphics card e.t.c.? After a fresh install XP will normally use its own drivers esp. for older hardware. Graphics cards tend to perform very poorly on these and would advise on installing one suited to your card.

AntiVirus? Do you have a AntiVirus install? If so what is it. Again I've seen people put Norton AV on PIIIs which make windows crawl.

For a Internet browsing PC it *should be fine. However I would recomend treating yourself to something a little newer. 1.2Ghz Celeron & 384mb of Ram in 2008 as you know is very low but if your using your machine for a word processor and the internet it should be fine.
 
I think the best suggestion would be to use an nLited copy of XP as already mentioned, remove unnecessary processes and don't use newer more system intensive applications than you have to so Google Chrome probably isn't the best to use. Compare that to starting up with an old unpatched XP install with IE 5 (or whatever it was when you first got the PC) to see the difference.

I've run XP on some dogs of machines (PII-233mhz with 64mb of Ram) and it isn't always pleasant but once you get beyond the initial bootup you might be surprised how acceptable they are if you aren't running multiple processes at once. The problem comes when trying to multitask on systems that were never really designed for heavy multitasking.
 
It's slow compared to what? :)

I'm guessing as time goes on and software updates the apps eat up more clock cycles. If the CPU isn't maxed out it's either the speed of RAM or speed of hd/swap file.
 
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