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MSI P6N SLI FI problems

spdfreak

spdfreak

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I'm having a strange problem with my system (P6N SLI FI with Q6600). Recently, it has been having brief (2-5sec) lockups when I open folders on either of the local hard drives and it is worse if it is a network drive. Defrag doesn't make any difference. Very frustrating. Almost like a SATA or IDE problem. Anyone else experience this or have any idea what is causing it?
 
Well, I don't think it is a MB problem after all. I have isolated it to drives/folders that have large HD video files in them. I have a lot of TV and movies saved in HD on my computers and windows apparently tries to look at media files and determine frame rate, resolution etc when you hover over the icon. There is a problem with high cpu usage and lock-ups when you have a corrupt avi file, but these are all good mpeg2 files. So it is a windows (xp) problem, but I'm not quite sure what to do about it. Only one system out of 3 is having the problem. Any suggestions?
 
How much memory do you have in the PC that has the problem?
Do all three PC's have the same video card with the same amount of memory?
Some times it can be the Sata or IDE driver doing it. Try to do a update to
the Sata or IDE driver....or revert back to the MS driver that comes with XP.
 
Originally posted by: starfireone
How much memory do you have in the PC that has the problem?
Do all three PC's have the same video card with the same amount of memory?
Some times it can be the Sata or IDE driver doing it. Try to do a update to
the Sata or IDE driver....or revert back to the MS driver that comes with XP.
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It has 2GB of memory... I updated the drivers to the latest nvidia drivers and that didn't seem to have any effect. Changing folder views from thumbnails to icons did help. I will keep experimenting. The odd thing is that my old AMD 3800 x2 system has never had a problem like this and it has a ton of HD video on it.
 
Problem was caused by windows trying to read each video file for preview and spiking windows explorer to 100% cpu. Turning off thumbnails doesn't help since windows still tries to read each file. You have to disable video preview to fix it but then you lose preview (file size, type, etc). Good ol windows...
 
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