W2K File locking problem - where is the problem?

[acetuk]

I hope this is the best place to post this - I'm not sure what is causing the problem!

I'm having a strange problem with my Epox 8K7A+ motherboard that I need some advise on.

When I use a program like EAC to create an MP3 file I like to use Winamp / Tag&Rename to set up the MP3 tag properly. However when I try to save my changes W2K gives me an error...

File is locked by another program / set to read only. Unable to apply changes

... or something to that affect.

Everything was working fine in my old Abit BE6-II board with exactly the same hard drives etc.

The same thing has happened when I tried to rename a film after running it through EasyDivx.

The only thing I have done different is use ribbon ATA100 cables to attach the hard drives to the Epox IDE1 and IDE2 controllers (not the Highpoint ones, they are currently disabled) - on the Abit board I used normal ATA33 cables as the controllers were not capable of ATA66 and ATA100.

But due to the layout of my case I have had to put my hard drive (set as a master) on the ATA100 cable where 'slave' is indicated, and my DVD Rom, set as a slave, attached where the 'master' is indicated.

What difference will this make? Could this, for some reason, be why I am having a file locking problem? Other than this things seems to be running very well.

Any ideas?

 

[Woodie]

This isn't hardware, it's a W2K problem. I've had this problem a few times, as have other members.

If you kill/restart Explorer (from Task Manager), that will usually clear the file lock. I'm not sure what triggers it, but I haven't done any research on it either.

--Woodie

 

[acetuk]

Thanks for that Woodie.

The strange thing is that I haven't ever seen this before and I've been running W2K for quite some time. I am wondering if my ribbon cable change is related.

Thanks... I'll post something similar in the operation systems forum and see if anybody there has any ideas.

 

[Conroy9]

sysinternals.com has a bunch of cool programs

you might want to try Process explorer, which will tell you what program has a file open.. maybe it'll show you the reason why win2k thinks the file is locked

 

[acetuk]

More good stuff.

Thanks for that as well. I'm determined to get this sorted out - my new rig is a nice speed increase from my overclocked Celeron runnig at 850MHz.

Keep it coming folks - anybody else got any ideas?

 

[acetuk]

Ok... I tried closing and restartinf explorer in Task Manager and yep, it has worked.

A good tempory fix.

But I am interested in finding out why I have suddenly got this problem with my latest install of Windows 2000. Anybody got any ideas?

 

[limsandy]

I think Epox released a BIOS to fix this problem.
Go and check out Epox's web site to see if they have latest BIOS for your mobo.

 

[acetuk]

Any idea where on the Epox website?

I'm running Bios version 1711 - I've had a look at their website but can't find a mention of this anywhere.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[de8212]

If you find a fix for this related to software please share it with me because I have run across this recently. Thanks.
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