J-Squad Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 I have a 1st Generation Macbook Pro, which I've upgraded the memory and hard drive of recently- about 2 months ago. I have 72 GB free on my hard drive, and 2 GB of RAM. Yet, for some reason, my laptop just started running ungodly slow. I emptied my trash can and after that took a day to do, it started running normally for maybe 5 minutes, then stopped. Does anybody have any idea what could be going on? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97366-my-computer-is-running-slow/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chest12 Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Do you restart your machine to clear the RAM or do you leave it up 24/7. I leave my Powerbook G4 up all the time and my brother says its bad for the CPU and RAM as some apps leave stuff in the RAM. So when my machine has been on for several days i use a program called 'iFreeMem' this allows the RAM to be reshuffled and frees some of it up and makes the computer faster. Let me know if your still having problems. D. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97366-my-computer-is-running-slow/#findComment-695632 Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Squad Posted April 4, 2008 Author Share Posted April 4, 2008 Yeah, I leave mine on all the time. Whenever it used to slow down like this I would just restart, but now the restart process takes about half an hour. And wouldn't I have seena gradual slow-down, not just sudden low speed snail chase? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97366-my-computer-is-running-slow/#findComment-695966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Squad Posted April 4, 2008 Author Share Posted April 4, 2008 No, it didn't seem to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97366-my-computer-is-running-slow/#findComment-696218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ongeloof Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 trying running iDefrag, should clear things up a bit. Think Mark I can not be bothered to look for the link, so just google it.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97366-my-computer-is-running-slow/#findComment-696553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Squad Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 Is there a version if that that's free for Leapord? Also- my laptop takes about half an hour to start up, and is very hot, if that helps anyone distinguish the problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97366-my-computer-is-running-slow/#findComment-696671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon351 Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Hard disk problem, maybe? Does it make any clicking noises, particularly when a disk operation is taking a long time? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97366-my-computer-is-running-slow/#findComment-696678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Is there a version if that that's free for Leapord? Also- my laptop takes about half an hour to start up, and is very hot, if that helps anyone distinguish the problem. For iDefrag, check the torrent sites.As for the heat issue, that's very odd. Check Activity Monitor after a reboot and see what's going on, processor-wise. It's definitely doing something unnecessary... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97366-my-computer-is-running-slow/#findComment-696707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Squad Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 Hard disk problem, maybe? Does it make any clicking noises, particularly when a disk operation is taking a long time? Nope, none of that. Though I wouldn't throw out the idea of a hard drive issue. And, occasionally, it'll start acting normally for a minute, but then as I'm all excited about it working, I use it and it goes back to hell. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97366-my-computer-is-running-slow/#findComment-696855 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedfreaK Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 a firsg gen mbp is hotter than a newer mbp, so that shouldn't be the problem try if reinstalling leopard works Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97366-my-computer-is-running-slow/#findComment-696983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Backup and Reinstall. Best solution if nothing else works; trust me, I've been in that situation Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97366-my-computer-is-running-slow/#findComment-697014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Squad Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 I'm in the disk utility of the Leopard startup disk and have this message: "this drive has reported a fatal hardware error to disk utility. If the drive has not failed completely, back up as much data as you can and then replace it with a working drive" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97366-my-computer-is-running-slow/#findComment-710511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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