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How can I improve the performance of my audio software?
I am running OtsAV on Windows XP. The way it works is by buffering a small amount of data from the hard drive just before it needs to play it. It used to give flawless sound no matter what else was ...
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Hard drive dying? One CPU core runs at 50% but System Idle Process at 99%
I think I have a hard drive or video card dying in my HTPC. It's a dual core CPU and one processor is almost always at 100% usage, but processes are all nil, System Idle Process is at 99%
It's a ...
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Major HDD slowdown after hot swap of another drive
Earlier I inserted a SATA drive into a simple one drive backplane I have. After a "detect hardware changes" the drive appeared, and worked correctly. Later, I removed it.
Since that time, my ...
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Fairly new laptop hard drive extremely slow
I installed a new drive in this customer's laptop about two months ago. Brand new WD1200BEVE PATA drive. The machine worked well until about a week ago. She told me it was running extremely slow, and ...
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Hard Drive Fundamentals And Verifying Disk Performance
Over the past few months, my Windows XP machine has slowed down to a crawl. It takes about 10-15 minutes to go from power-up to reaching a responsive state. I have reasons to believe that this is a ...
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Why does Windows XP let a SATA hdd work in PIO mode instead of DMA?
I have a Windows XP system with 2 SATA hard drives - WD Raptor 300 & WD Caviar 500. The motherboard is P31 and I have UDMA enabled in the BIOS.
Now the Raptor works in DMA mode while the Caviar ...
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Hard Drive benchmark values show write very very slow
I recently started to have issues with my laptop being very slow. I ran a hard drive benchmarking tool (by ATTO) that showed that the write speed was very very slow on my boot drive. I ran the same ...
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Is my hard drive to blame for slowness?
I'm running windows XP and I've noticed it has become quite sluggish in the past few months.
Background: I have suspected a few programs, but I haven't found anything conclusive. By viewing my CPU ...
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Super slow hard drive in windows install
So I have a computer with two 2TB hard drives in Windows XP formatted as NTFS, one of them is working fine so I get around 80 MB/s transfer which is normal. But on the other hard drive I only get 4 MB/...
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How can I log my hard drive activity by program?
I am using Windows XP and am looking for a utility that can tell me the percentage of hard drive activity a program is using.
Basically, I'm looking for something like Task Manager and its ability ...
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Optimizing Windows XP to use less HD access
I have a corporate laptop with a great processor and 4 gigs of RAM, however the HD is ancient, we're talking 4200RPM here, roundabouts.
Programs run great, but load horribly, horribly slow.
Any ...
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Why is my computer running slower after I just installed more RAM and a new HDD?
I just bought 4 GB of ram (2x2GB) and a 1TB hard drive and installed them, upgrading from my original 1GB RAM and 250GB HDD. I put the 2GB sticks in 1st and 3rd slots and the 1GB stick in 2nd. Now ...
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Windows XP acts strangely when hard drive is being heavily used
This happens in two situations so far: when I use sabnzbd, after it's done downloading a file and is using par2.exe to stitch it together, and just now, when I'm defragmenting a hard drive from a VM I'...
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Poor disk performance with ASUS EEE BOX
I have an ASUS EEE BOX and I am experiencing really poor disk performance.
How can I debug and fix it?
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