Hey I was solving this kind of thing on my old p3 by cleaning the processor
pins and slot. For 2.54 processors.. well i think those were a bit
overheating when they came out, my brother has a 2.4 which was going up to
70C in the summer. Check your temp from bios, there are a lot of good fans
out there. There are also programs that monitor processes and disk activity,
they might help you find the problem. Like for example an antivirus scanning
your hard disk like crazy..

"AcidX" <acidecks********.com> wrote in message
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> heya
> I'm gonna run a memory test in a sec.
>
> And yes, I think the problem is that my CPU is overheating.
> However, sometimes, when it's not overheating (or shouldn't be - this
> is literally 10 minutes after its been turned on) some programs still
> lag, and it doesn't get any better.
> I didn't have any viruses or spyware/adware last time I checked (about
> a week ago) and I had the same problem before that checkup.
>
> I'll get back to you after the memtest.
>
> (Just another thing... Could it be because my CPU is running at 133Mhz
> clock speed?)
>