| Author
|
CPU freaks when using 2 HD's
|
Boobytrip
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
39
Posts :
988
Posted : Jun 15, 2006 14:16
|
My PC is driving me insane ! When i try to move files from one hard-drive to the other the CPU stays at 100% and my system is crippled. I mean: Winamp can't even play back music without crackling.
I wonder why this is the case, it never happened before. Could it be because i have little room left ? 1 HD is 100 Gigs and has 20 Gig left. The other one is 200 Gigs and has 30 Gig left. Any other ideas ?
|
|
|
texmex
Started Topics :
5
Posts :
189
Posted : Jun 15, 2006 14:50
|
|
are you copying avi or other video files? the explorer has a tendency of getting stuck with broken avi files because it seeks the whole file through to find information it wants... |
|
|
|
e-motion
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
71
Posts :
933
Posted : Jun 15, 2006 15:01
|
|
i have 2 120gb's HD's one with 1gb left the other with 3gb and i don't have those problems. the problems you can find is when you have less than 1gb in your Windows HD which is not the case. stange problem. |
|
|
|
Trip-
IsraTrance Team
Started Topics :
101
Posts :
3239
Posted : Jun 15, 2006 15:02
|
Both harddrives set to work at Ultra DMA 5 ?
 Crackling universes dive into their own neverending crackle...
AgalactiA |
|
|
|
Boobytrip
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
39
Posts :
988
Posted : Jun 15, 2006 16:15
|
|
I'm copying mp3 files. And both drives are set to work at Ultra DMA (not so sure about the 5).
|
|
|
|
UnderTow
Started Topics :
9
Posts :
1448
Posted : Jun 15, 2006 18:34
|
I would run disck check on both drives just to make sure nothing is going wrong. Other than that, do you have file indexing on? iTunes background indexing? Stuff like that?
UnderTow
|
|
|
|
gill
Melorix
Started Topics :
18
Posts :
628
Posted : Jun 15, 2006 19:11
|
|
Alex Roudos
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
33
Posts :
411
Posted : Jun 15, 2006 20:20
|
Have the same problem many times especially when i want to delete or copy to another disk some downloaded movies. I get the message that the specific file is being used by another application. I never figured out which application is using it anyway.
And in all these cases the CPU is stuck at 100%. So the only thing thing i do and works is to launch this file on media player which stucks again and the gives the non-responding program message. I end it and everything's back to normal. Some times even this doesn't work. So i keep opening and closing folders until i get the message that the windows explorer is not responding. I suppose that this has to do only with the windows explorer and files that have been downloaded and are corrupted in a way to make the windows explorer stop working properly. |
|
|
|
fregle
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
11
Posts :
982
Posted : Jun 15, 2006 20:54
|
totally abnormal, but with that info i don't know what is going on...
are they both ide? or both serial ata? Or 1 ide and 1 serial ATA? Are the jumpers set right (one master, one slave, although modern computers and hard disks have autodetect, but if that is the case, they both have to be set to autodetect)? Do you use the fastest HD for windows or the slowest? Or are they the same speed? Is it a problem that you have since you got the computer or did it suddenly appear? If it suddenly appeared, did you get strange messages or phenomena before the problem started occuring? And what messages or phenomena?
I have to be honest, these kind of problems are dificult to solve if i can't see the computer with my own eyes and do tests on it... |
|
|
|
fregle
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
11
Posts :
982
Posted : Jun 15, 2006 21:01
|
Quote:
|
On 2006-06-15 20:20, Alex Roudos wrote:
Have the same problem many times especially when i want to delete or copy to another disk some downloaded movies. I get the message that the specific file is being used by another application. I never figured out which application is using it anyway.
And in all these cases the CPU is stuck at 100%. So the only thing thing i do and works is to launch this file on media player which stucks again and the gives the non-responding program message. I end it and everything's back to normal. Some times even this doesn't work. So i keep opening and closing folders until i get the message that the windows explorer is not responding. I suppose that this has to do only with the windows explorer and files that have been downloaded and are corrupted in a way to make the windows explorer stop working properly.
|
|
sometimes the flag that marks the file as being 'in use' never gets turned off again... I know this problem... Only a complete reinstall of windows can solve it, and sometimes even then it's stuck. I once had a file that had that problem, even after reinstall... The only way i found to solve it was opening the file with a code editor (and that took hours, because it was a movie... An enormous fle to open with a code editor). I removed the whole content of the file (in this case an endless string of hexadecimal numbers), saved it, and then i could delete it... and yes, i was surprised that i could save it, cuz it was a last ditch attempt and i thought he was going to refuse to save it (because of the 'in use' flag) |
|
|
|
Alex Roudos
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
33
Posts :
411
Posted : Jun 15, 2006 21:52
|
To Fregle
Well i'm certainly not going through that just for some movies that refuse to get deleted even if they occupy a few gigs in my hd.
As for the general nature of the problem i'm not that sure that the problem is the hd settings(hard or soft). My setup for example is a laptop and two external firewire disks. The problem occurs in one of the external disks even when i'm trying to delete, copy or move the file no matter where to.
To Boobytrip :
The mp3 files you try to copy or move, did you download them? If yes, it makes stronger the case that it happens with downloaded files which are somehow "problematic". |
|
|
|
dtd
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
17
Posts :
490
Posted : Jun 16, 2006 01:23
|
do you have a mainboard with an nForce4 chipset?  |
|
|
|
Colin OOOD
Moderator
Started Topics :
95
Posts :
5380
Posted : Jun 16, 2006 02:02
|
|
e-motion
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
71
Posts :
933
Posted : Jun 16, 2006 03:58
|
|
dtd i have! had any problems with it? i've not until now and hope i won't have. |
|
|
|
sideFXed
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
22
Posts :
430
Posted : Jun 16, 2006 10:59
|
try this to get rid of files that windows prevents from deleting:
start -> cmd
enter the path (eg: c:\program files\downloads)
now choose the file to delete and type it in: (eg: del myfirstliveactontape.avi)
before hitting enter do what colin said in his post. ctrl-alt-del and end the explorer process. switch to the command prompt and delete the file. get back to the task manager and run a new explorer process. (file -> new task -> type "explorer"
this usually works for me.
related to your harddisk problems I'd check the disk throughput. it could be either a dma setting as already pointed out or an irq conflict. also defragmenting could solve speed problems.
soundcloud.com/epsylohm |
|
|
|
