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Powerbook question!!!!
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Ok so i have had my pb for about two montnhs now first one broke in a week because of a harddrive failure so they replaced that right away... but recently my laptop has slowed up alot... i erased the hard drive and it still bugs me how slow it sorta is acting... now my question is does your hard drive make noise often? or not at all... because mine seems to do it often........ but besides that any thing you recommened to speed it up its a 12 - inch powerbook check my sig 
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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What's your definition of slow?
You could try resetting your PMU, and zapping your PRAM but I doubt thats goin to speed things up significantly. The only thing that is left to upgrade is your HD. Stock PB drives are 4200, 5400 as BTO. You'll really notice a kick in the pants when you upgrade it, but that's all I see that you could improve to speed up your machine.
(Last edited by iREZ; Nov 1, 2004 at 03:59 PM.
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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How do you do a pmu or pram reset will this do anything to my harddrive or data on it?
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Neither will affect your data.
Shift-CTRL-Option & Power resets PMU.
Alt-APPLE-P-R resets PRAM (wait for all four chimes to sound).
A more descriptive thread title might help next time, too
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If you could describe the slow downs in greater detail, that would also help.
You may just want to back up and do a clean install. Start fresh and see if that helps matter along.
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Open the Activity Monitor (under Application->Utility), and constantly monitor it to see which process takes CPU time.
It might be some process spinning the disc and using CPU.
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