Sometimes, when my mom turn hercomputer from hibernating and she want to listen to music or watch a video, it sounds horrible, almost like if it was slow-mo. Video is slow, a second on the video is about 3 on rl. It doesn't happens every time she wakes it up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sound card is the standard one that came with the computer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any help?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specs:

 

 

 

1280 Mb of Ram

 

 

 

AMD Athlon XP 2600 (2,13 GHz)

 

 

 

Windows XP Service Pack 3

I don't know what type of graphics card it is just by looking at that information, but a lot can be solved if you shut the machine down all the way, as opposed to hibernating it.

I would try a hard restart.

I don't know what type of graphics card it is just by looking at that information, but a lot can be solved if you shut the machine down all the way, as opposed to hibernating it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nvidia Geforce2 32mb Integrated Graphics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I should tell her to buy a new one :wall:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sloter: That would be some last resort stuff.

sloter: That would be some last resort stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last resort? You mean to tell me holding the power button, then rebooting, and performing a disk check is a last resort? ...Just walk away urbest...just walk away...

 

sloter: That would be some last resort stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last resort? You mean to tell me holding the power button, then rebooting, and performing a disk check is a last resort? ...Just walk away urbest...just walk away...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#-o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn't hard restart another way of saying to wipe out the Hard Drive and start all over again? It sounds like it is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, if not, i have tried it alot of times, this problem is like a year old, but my mom just recently told me.

 

 

sloter: That would be some last resort stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last resort? You mean to tell me holding the power button, then rebooting, and performing a disk check is a last resort? ...Just walk away urbest...just walk away...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#-o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn't hard restart another way of saying to wipe out the Hard Drive and start all over again? It sounds like it is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, if not, i have tried it alot of times, this problem is like a year old, but my mom just recently told me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, a hard restart is as I explained....Uhh...Here's a Wiki article on it, so I don't have to try to re-explain it (since I have to go to bed): link.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You could just uninstall and reinstall the graphics and sound drivers. That's not hard to do, and there's no formatting or anything involved.

 

 

sloter: That would be some last resort stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last resort? You mean to tell me holding the power button, then rebooting, and performing a disk check is a last resort? ...Just walk away urbest...just walk away...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#-o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn't hard restart another way of saying to wipe out the Hard Drive and start all over again? It sounds like it is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, if not, i have tried it alot of times, this problem is like a year old, but my mom just recently told me.

 

 

 

No no no no no no no no no. What urbestfriend is trying to tell you is that you should consider actually shutting off the computer instead of hibernation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To hibernate your machine is to save your current session on disk -- meaning saving [the state of] all running programs, applications, and the entire OS, regardless of what it's doing. Okay for laptop users that are going to move their laptop from their office or classroom to the presentation room or library; REALLY REALLY NOT A GOOD IDEA FOR DESKTOPS OF ANY KIND. The reason being desktop users forget that they're "hibernating" their machine, and not "shutting it off", so they run into huge issues with memory, slower disks, slower machine, so forth and so on... Not to mention, Windows uses a "paging" file to do all of this. There are limits to how big that file can be, and since there's a lot of cruft on that file, that would explain the sluggishness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What you can do to remedy this is to shut the doggone thing off for an hour. Then go back into the OS and run the disk defragmenter program. Then, run it again. Then, after you're done with that, tell your mother to never, ever hibernate her machine again. Period.

Ok then i'll try, but i'm not helpless on computers.

 

 

 

Just confused on the hard restart, the "hard" word exactly. :mrgreen:

 

 

 

sloter: That would be some last resort stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last resort? You mean to tell me holding the power button, then rebooting, and performing a disk check is a last resort? ...Just walk away urbest...just walk away...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#-o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn't hard restart another way of saying to wipe out the Hard Drive and start all over again? It sounds like it is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, if not, i have tried it alot of times, this problem is like a year old, but my mom just recently told me.

 

 

 

No no no no no no no no no. What urbestfriend is trying to tell you is that you should consider actually shutting off the computer instead of hibernation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To hibernate your machine is to save your current session on disk -- meaning saving [the state of] all running programs, applications, and the entire OS, regardless of what it's doing. Okay for laptop users that are going to move their laptop from their office or classroom to the presentation room or library; REALLY REALLY NOT A GOOD IDEA FOR DESKTOPS OF ANY KIND. The reason being desktop users forget that they're "hibernating" their machine, and not "shutting it off", so they run into huge issues with memory, slower disks, slower machine, so forth and so on... Not to mention, Windows uses a "paging" file to do all of this. There are limits to how big that file can be, and since there's a lot of cruft on that file, that would explain the sluggishness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What you can do to remedy this is to shut the doggone thing off for an hour. Then go back into the OS and run the disk defragmenter program. Then, run it again. Then, after you're done with that, tell your mother to never, ever hibernate her machine again. Period.

 

 

 

Personally i put my desktop in sleep mode every night casue i can't afford the power bill with it on. That is besides the point. It ISN'T A BAD IDEA TO HIBERNATE. It is a good idea to restart it every once and a while though. You really piss me off some times. As you give out [cabbage] information like this.

Personally i put my desktop in sleep mode every night casue i can't afford the power bill with it on. That is besides the point. It ISN'T A BAD IDEA TO HIBERNATE. It is a good idea to restart it every once and a while though. You really piss me off some times. As you give out [cabbage] information like this.

 

 

 

You can't afford the power bill, but you set it to sleep? Now, forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't sleep mode draw more power than Hibernate (which I was told is equated to turning off the computer)?

 

 

 

Unless I've been told wrong all this time - Power On > Sleep\Stand-by > Hibernate in terms of power consumption.

 

 

 

And I was just trying to say what a hard reboot was. I didn't mean that Hibernation is bad. All of the computers I use have been set to hibernate after a certain amount of time. I also have a hibernate shortcut on my desktop (I can post the instructions for it if anyone wants them).

 

 

 

Yes, you should do a restart every now and then. I try to do a restart at least once a week. Usually I do it once every 2-3 days. But, you don't have to do a hard reboot, or a forced reboot.

 

 

 

See, the problem with hibernate is that your computer keeps everything in RAM that was there before. Eventually, all these temp files get written there, and they stay, which slows down your computer a lot. By doing a hard reboot, you're clearing out this memory, allowing your computer to read and write to RAM and other parts faster. Rebooting should be a weekly thing, if not more. I also defrag my computer once a month or more as well, to help make reading and writing just that much faster.

 

 

 

I'm sorry if I posted wrong information, I don't mean to. I'm just trying to help with what knowledge I have, or what I can find in the 5 minutes of research I may do to refresh my memory. Note that I don't post on every thread, because I don't want to help in areas I have no clue about. I think I have this info pretty much down, else I've been arguing with my dad for no reason all this time.

Personally i put my desktop in sleep mode every night casue i can't afford the power bill with it on. That is besides the point. It ISN'T A BAD IDEA TO HIBERNATE. It is a good idea to restart it every once and a while though. You really piss me off some times. As you give out [cabbage] information like this.

 

 

 

You can't afford the power bill, but you set it to sleep? Now, forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't sleep mode draw more power than Hibernate (which I was told is equated to turning off the computer)?

 

Sleep saves the session in your memory. It is a very low power state. I have a 1200W psu that is why i said that.

Sleep saves the session in your memory. It is a very low power state. I have a 1200W psu that is why i said that.

 

 

 

I know what sleep does. But I'm trying to say that Hibernate would be better for you, because it draws almost no power (even a completely shutdown computer draws some power, and hibernate is almost the same as a complete shutdown).

 

 

 

I'd be willing to end it with a "to each, his own" here though, and I will.

 

 

 

Nice PSU btw, was thinking about getting something around that for my build when I get the money for it.

 

 

 

But were you yelling at me in your post? The

 

 

 

You really piss me off some times. As you give out [cabbage] information like this.

 

part? If so, pm me, because I need to inquire about this.

Sleep saves the session in your memory. It is a very low power state. I have a 1200W psu that is why i said that.

 

 

 

I know what sleep does. But I'm trying to say that Hibernate would be better for you, because it draws almost no power (even a completely shutdown computer draws some power, and hibernate is almost the same as a complete shutdown).

 

 

 

I'd be willing to end it with a "to each, his own" here though, and I will.

 

 

 

Nice PSU btw, was thinking about getting something around that for my build when I get the money for it.

 

 

 

But were you yelling at me in your post? The

 

 

 

You really piss me off some times. As you give out [cabbage] information like this.

 

part? If so, pm me, because I need to inquire about this.

 

Sleep boots up faster and i wasn't yelling at you.