Guest yonnym@googlemail.com Posted September 15, 2007 Posted September 15, 2007 Hey people thanks for the all the help you give, ii have a problem with my computer as when i try to copy a lot of files at the same time it hangs and suddenly reboots , its a 3.0 intel pentium 512mb ram.Its response time is very slow and while a file is copying i cannot at the same time watch or listen to anything as the sound is distorted, what could be the problem?.Thanks and please help
Guest mr x Posted September 15, 2007 Posted September 15, 2007 Re: file copying problems <yonnym@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:1189884464.279535.239720@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... > Hey people thanks for the all the help you give, > ii have a problem with my computer as when i try to copy a lot of > files at the same time it hangs and suddenly reboots , its a 3.0 intel > pentium 512mb ram.Its response time is very slow and while a file is > copying i cannot at the same time watch or listen to anything as the > sound is distorted, what could be the problem?.Thanks and please help > Copying big files uses lots of ram, 512mb isnt much thesedays and sad to say intel pentium 3 processors are outdated to. If your board supports more ram put in as much as you can afford. Check out your task manager and see if theres something hogging all the ram Or buy a better pc ;o)
Guest R. McCarty Posted September 15, 2007 Posted September 15, 2007 Re: file copying problems A disk drive is the slowest component in a PC compared to other things such as RAM. Are you transferring files to some type of USB external media ? or to and from internal (PATA/SATA) drives. For the PC to halt or have difficulty doing other operations would seem to indicate a high error count of a bus saturation of some kind. You should probably start with examining the health of your drives by doing a Read-Only or cursory Chkdsk. Otherwise, it is likely issues that may need professional IT help to resolve. <yonnym@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:1189884464.279535.239720@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... > Hey people thanks for the all the help you give, > ii have a problem with my computer as when i try to copy a lot of > files at the same time it hangs and suddenly reboots , its a 3.0 intel > pentium 512mb ram.Its response time is very slow and while a file is > copying i cannot at the same time watch or listen to anything as the > sound is distorted, what could be the problem?.Thanks and please help >
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted September 15, 2007 Posted September 15, 2007 Re: file copying problems On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:41:02 GMT, "mr x" <boomshaka@@hotmail.com> wrote: > > <yonnym@googlemail.com> wrote in message > news:1189884464.279535.239720@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... > > Hey people thanks for the all the help you give, > > ii have a problem with my computer as when i try to copy a lot of > > files at the same time it hangs and suddenly reboots , its a 3.0 intel > > pentium 512mb ram.Its response time is very slow and while a file is > > copying i cannot at the same time watch or listen to anything as the > > sound is distorted, what could be the problem?.Thanks and please help > > > > Copying big files uses lots of ram, 512mb isnt much thesedays This is *not* a one-size-fits-all situation. How much RAM someone needs for good performance depends on what apps he runs. Unless you run particularly memory intensive programs (doing things like video editing or editing large photographic images) 512MB is sufficient for almost everyone. For many people, even 256-384 is enough. > and sad to > say intel pentium 3 processors are outdated to. "Outdated" is a meaningless word here. Yes, there are faster processors, and yes there are slower processors. Unless you already have the world's fastest computer, you can always get more speed by spending more money. That doesn't mean that everyone needs that extra speed or that that extra speed is worth the extra expense to everyone. > If your board supports more > ram put in as much as you can afford. Sorry, but that is terrible advice. Despite what many people believe, it is *not* true that more RAM is automatically better. It is true only up to a point, and for most people, 512MB is already at or above that point. If you are currently using the page file significantly, more memory will decrease or eliminate that usage, and improve your performance. If you are not using the page file significantly, more memory will do nothing for you. Go to http://billsway.com/notes%5Fpublic/winxp%5Ftweaks/ and download WinXP-2K_Pagefile.zip and monitor your pagefile usage. That should give you a good idea of whether more memory can help, and if so, how much more. > Check out your task manager and see if theres something hogging all the ram It's highly unlikely that his problem has anything to do with RAM. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted September 15, 2007 Posted September 15, 2007 Re: file copying problems On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:27:44 -0700, "yonnym@googlemail.com" <yonnym@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hey people thanks for the all the help you give, > ii have a problem with my computer as when i try to copy a lot of > files at the same time it hangs and suddenly reboots Spontaneous rebooting is most often a problem with your hardware, not with Windows. You are presumably blue-screening, and you are set to reboot whenever that happens. Right-click My Computer, and choose Properties. On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery. Under System failure, uncheck the box "Automatically restart. Now when the problem occurs again, instead of restarting, you will get the blue screen with diagnostic information. Post back with those details for more help. > its a 3.0 intel > pentium 512mb ram.Its response time is very slow and while a file is > copying i cannot at the same time watch or listen to anything as the > sound is distorted, what could be the problem?.Thanks and please help Slow response time may be related or it may be another issue entirely. If I were in your shoes, I would work on the rebooting (probable hardware) issue first, and then after that's resolved, see if the slowness still remains. If it does, then come back here for more help. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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