WinXP problem ...

Grimson · Post by **Grimson** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:17 pm

When I click my computer(on my step dads pc) I get a flashlight that just moves left to right over a folder. Once it finds them it opens up fast as hell but it's annoying and I don't know what's causing it, any ideas ??

TIA

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:41 pm

A CD left in the CDRom or burner can cause this.

Grimson · Post by **Grimson** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:09 pm

Ok, what to do if it's a burner problem ?? Does that mean it's dying ??

Thanks norm.

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:15 pm

Originally posted by Grimson
Ok, what to do if it's a burner problem ?? Does that mean it's dying ??

Thanks norm.

No, I didn't mean there is a problem, but if a CD is left in the tray opening My Computer takes a little while, as it waits for the CD to spin up.

Grimson · Post by **Grimson** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:25 pm

No cd in either tray. It takes around 5 min. or longer to find the drives and everything initially.

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:29 pm

Is it an old PC, and possibly lots of drives?
specs, and OS?

Beats me, sounds like one of the drives may be having problems, but not sure on it.

Grimson · Post by **Grimson** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:46 pm

I built it(no funny remarks), it ran perfectly until he got a hold of it. It may have something to do with Pinnacle Studio 8 but that's been uninstalled until his upgrade to 9 arrives.

P4 2.6
512mb ddr pc 2700
WD 120gb
SB audigy mp3
Antec true power 430w
Plextor PX504 dvd/cd burner
Asus 52x cd

Win Xp pro

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:05 pm

Beats me bud. That PC is plenty fast enough.

Is he connecting to network shares, mapped drives, ftp sites etc?

Grimson · Post by **Grimson** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:15 pm

Filesharing yes.

Beats me too. It's never taken that long even with filesharing set up.

Thanks again norm.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 8:44 am

shut down.

discconnect one ide device and startup, see if problem still exists. Follow these steps for each one.

My problem with this was solved by defragging all my drives.

Grimson · Post by **Grimson** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:31 pm

I was thinking about that lastnight, thanks.

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 3:32 pm

You mentioned Pinnacle - video editing can frag a drive up nicely if you don't use a dedicated partition.

Grimson · Post by **Grimson** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:19 pm

Originally posted by cyberskye
You mentioned Pinnacle - video editing can frag a drive up nicely if you don't use a dedicated partition.

I'll check that too, thanks.

ReLL iZ HeLL · Post by **ReLL iZ HeLL** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:11 am

Same thing was happening to me until I uninstalled those stupid SP2 Hotfixes that slowed my PC to a crawl. I used to click on a folder, and nothing would happen... I was beginning to think it was because I made all my icons act as links... but it wasn't that. It was those cold-fixes.

Then again, that IDE suggestion sounds reasonable.

ReLL iZ HeLL · Post by **ReLL iZ HeLL** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:14 am

another thing I noticed was that if you don't have at least a gig open in your HDs then this can cause your system to lag due to *the lack of* virtual memory and physical memory.