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re: A good, low resource, virus scanner
Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6033 messages posted)
Are there errors in the Event Viewer? Usually start troubleshooting by looking there.
If your 80 gig is/was throwing errors, it can cause the system to slow down as Windows
will try to compenate by dropping back in speed until errors stop. Or may have reverted
to PIO mode for the same reason.
Check that in the Device Manager under the IDE channel that the HDD's are installed
on. High CPU activity along with high HDD and slow loading access is usually a sign
of some issues with the DMA usage or lack there of, a driver issue or bad hardware..
Either way, it may be either IDE drivers corrupted or PIO mode usage which can be
corrected by deleting the IDE channel and rebooting to see if WIndows can "refresh"
the driver and reset the registry's DMA error/failure count. (which will cause the
channel to only use PIO mode until reset) This will happen even if you replace the
HDD and repair install Windows.
May be other issues as well, but this is a common one when HDD are having issues
and Windows tries to compensate for the errors.
On Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 12:48 pm, 2000_man wrote:
>You guys are awesome -- I'll check out AVG, it seems to be the top pick so far.
>
>CK: As for the 2k install - I have a dual boot system with 2K on a partitioned 160GB
>and XP on it's own 80 Gb (The 80 Gig failed on me once before which is why I use
>it for XP - I hate XP and only use it for games that won't run on 2K so I don't
care
>if it fails again). The 2k drive is installed on a 25 Gig partition with the other
>135 gigs is used for storage. I use 2k for pretty much everything - listening to
>music, internet, downloading, photoediting, and the few games that will run on it.
> I run nothing in the background when at home (because I don't have internet access)
>and task manager usually shows about 16 processes. The hang ups usually only occur
>on startup (when 2k used yo be on the 80gig - even when it was my only drive - and
>thus packed with other stuff) it would startup really fast -- now it hangs at the
>log on screen. I also notice that Spybot S&D takes a decade to load however I'm
>not sure if this is my computer or the fact that I'm using a newer version than
was
>previously installed.
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