Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20170901233307/@comment-1496755-20170905084034

Thanks for the suggestions.

Yeah - defragmenting is one thing I will do today or tomorrow. It wasn't very cluttered, so cleanup hardly did anything.

I made an ill-fated attempt to boost things at the BIOS level, but it didn't go very well. Let's just say in the end I had to open the case and reset the BIOS manually in order to get it working again (gulp). Well, at least I learned a whole lot of new things about this matter. Just like the old days - learning by trial & error (except today I can fix the consequences of errors on my own).

It's an old machine - this is its main problem. Video card is an onboard GeForce 7100, a relic by today's standards. OS is Win 7 64-bit.