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omgshovelyouinthebutt? · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:55 am Post subject: Vrooommm

Thats the sound my comp keeps making, you know when you load up a bunch of programs at once, and the light comes on and you hear it thinking? Well my comp has been making thinking sounds when im not doing anything, the lights not on or anything, but it sounds like its trying to open like 50 programs. Any ideas?
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Stevo · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:26 am Post subject:

Is the computer going any slower?
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omgshovelyouinthebutt? · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:29 am Post subject:

Seems like it's taking a bit longer to load programs.

its a Compaq Persario 2.0 ghz
256 ram
120g HD
XP

and its only like 6 months old :\ hope it's not dying on me
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Azrael · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:34 am Post subject:

Like I told Speaker For the Dead,

SHAFT gave me this link to go to. It's a step by step on things you can do to speed up your system. It basically just helps you get rid of all the crap running in the background and stuff.

www.readyroom.org
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omgshovelyouinthebutt? · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:36 am Post subject:

gah when i hit agree it gives me a dead link
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Speaker's Xeno · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:49 am Post subject:

Azrael · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:54 am Post subject:

weird, I don't know what happened to it. It was there when I went through it like a week or so ago.
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Replica · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:55 am Post subject:

are you sure the sound isn't jsut a bad fan?
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shockwave · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:06 pm Post subject:

I would recommend doing a disk defragment if you havent already.
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ProudWhiteTrash · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:16 pm Post subject:

hit Ctrl-Alt-Del
Click on the Processes tab
Look in the list for something using a hight per centage of your memory and cpu
http://www.readyroom.org/archive/perfgde_1.html
The url works for me, try pasting it into your browser......
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Azrael · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:24 pm Post subject:

it's not that going to the performance page doesn't work, it's when you click on the "Let's do this thang" link that doesn't work
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Azrael · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:34 pm Post subject:

Ok, I figured it out, it's simply a broken link on the page. Click here to go to the introduction. I checked the link to page 3, and it did the same thing, so for every page, make sure it looks like this http://www.readyroom.org/archive/perfgde_2.html and just change perfgde_2.html to whatever numbered page you're going to.
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omgshovelyouinthebutt? · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:39 pm Post subject:

Actually shockwave, i dunno if anyone posted about this, i was gonna right after i found out but i forgot, after you install STEAM, I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU DEFRAG!!!!! Steam puts crap all over the place. And yes i defragged after d/l steam, and the really weird thing is, my HD dropped a gig lol. After defrag it like minused a gig off what i had, odd.
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SpeCies · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:07 pm Post subject:

Cut---Idea from Valve !

If Steam is improperly shut down three times in a row, on the next launch it will check all of the cache files for integrity. This will indeed mean reading just about every byte of the file. Unfortunately, on older systems this can take a while.

If you kill Steam in the middle of this process, it will just do it again the next launch.

I'm not sure why some of you, even after letting the process complete, have it happen again a few days later. You might try shutting Steam yourself before restarting/shutting down your computer. If that doesn't help, let me know.

Feel free to PM or email me (taylors at valvesoftware dot com) with more information if that's not working for you.

We're working on displaying a message to the user when this is going on so it's not mysterious. Meantime, sorry and thanks for your patience.
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