Katana Owners Club U.K.

Anyone on here know much about puters ?I know a few bits and bobs but bit stumped on this one.

Got a pretty old Dell machine 2.6ghz 2 gig of ram XP OS and i am having trouble watching any kind of video on it. Its all jerky and the sounds is spluttery

CPU goes right up to 100% so its struggling to cope with it right? If i am just trawling the net it runs up and down but never gets very high cpu usage. Used to work ok

Stripped out any software i dont need. Checked the startup box in config.sys.

Just wondering if ggogle chrome is using more and more cpu power after upgrades etc?

Cheers

Pete

that's not a lot of memory tbh... may wanna check for damaged sectors on the HD too... if you did a clean re-installation of the OS that'll speed stuff up too.

Was thinking of a clean install tbh Steve. Memory seems to be ok when looking in task manager. Its the cpu thats working its nuts off

Might bite the bullet and reinstall.

Pete

Cheers guys. tried that program John. Found a few things but didnt help. I think its a hardware prob or like Mick says a graphics driver prob. Have nicked my lads computer which is a fairly new install and it works a whole load better. Can watch my video clips now

Formatting the hard drive on the other one and trying a reinstall of windows to see if that works.

Thanks

Pete