WinXP problem ...

[Grimson]

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]

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

[Grimson]

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


Thanks norm.

[Norm]

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]

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

[Norm]

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]

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]

Beats me bud. That PC is plenty fast enough.

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

[Grimson]

Filesharing yes.

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


Thanks again norm.

:)

[zooner]

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]

I was thinking about that lastnight, thanks.

:)

[cyberskye]

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

[Grimson]

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]

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. :mad:

Then again, that IDE suggestion sounds reasonable.

[ReLL iZ HeLL]

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.