My pc is slow!!!

There are many problems from 1 year. First, there is a noise coming from my cpu. I cleaned the whole motherboard, for 3 days there was no sound. Again the sound came back. Whenever I play any game, the sound comes, even popcap games! Please help me. What can be the problem. Can it be the power supply? Even when I use visual studio my computer becomes sooo slow. I think my pc is acting as if I have 128 mb ram. I have 1 gb ram and P4.

There are many problems from 1 year. First, there is a noise coming from my cpu. I cleaned the whole motherboard, for 3 days there was no sound. Again the sound came back. Whenever I play any game, the sound comes, even popcap games! Please help me. What can be the problem. Can it be the power supply? Even when I use visual studio my computer becomes sooo slow. I think my pc is acting as if I have 128 mb ram. I have 1 gb ram and P4.

kognisurge

yeah that sounds right.. HDD going rogue due to too much junk in the trunk.

I have 320 gb hdd western digital. And I have 12 gb free space.

I have 320 gb hdd western digital. And I have 12 gb free space.

I have 320 gb hdd western digital. And I have 12 gb free space.

kognisurge

How much free space should I have then? The sound that comes when you drive a car, is the same sound coming from my cpu.

It is extactly one year since I got this new hdd. I did not reinstalled windows.

what os? no os needs 12gb free to run properly. vista needs about 4 before it becomes critical, and with only 1gb of memory, he probably only has 2gb of pagefile. that means he is still around 6gb in the clear. first things first, is your p4 overheating? 2nd, try doing a defragment, if you did not re install windows you may have a location problem. and 3rd, is your ram fst or slow? is it pc3200,2700,or 2100(or 4200,5300,or 6400 if its ddr2)

Can you please help me to find whether my cpu is overheating and how to find my ram speed? I have P4 and ddr2 ram.