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Windows freezes when deleting/moving large files...

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333999222111

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hi, i am not gay

my computer has a problema

when im deleting large files (about 10 megs) it freezes for some several seconds, while freezing, this folder cant be accessed but others are still okay, winamp works, everything works but this folder keeps freezed for some time...

it happens when i delete a large file or a folder with a lot of files

my system is a

Thunderbird 1,2
192 ram pc100 (one 128 and the other 64)
k7s5a
Viper 2
sound blaster pci 128
encore 10/100 pci card
hds are a 10 gigs maxtor (Primary Master) 40gigs quantum bigfoot (secondary master)
and a cd-rom at Primary Slave

don't laugh at my computer, that's the best i could afford

the temps are okay too i just fingered the heatsink and it was hot...

PS: i am not gay

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We do not care whether you are gay. We do care that you are a returning troll. Good bye.

AnandTech Moderator
 
Why did you point out twice in your post that you're not gay? I'm not gay either BTW. Umm....that board has a notorious problem with the heatsink on the chipset not having good thermal contact. I could explain it but it's on this board many times just do a seach. Also, that board has a problem with multiple sticks of SD ram. Not ddr but SD ram. Also, that board won't run async with 100 CPU and 133 memory so you might be overclocking your memory without even knowing it if your CPU is a 133fsb. Try removing one of the DIMMs and see what happens.
 
i used to have a pentium 3 550 on a asus p2-99 mobo and the same memories and i had the same problem

its not temperature, my computer runs just cold i can asure you

it's something i dont know how to fix, but when i disable ultra dma, it works just fine
 
Originally posted by: 333999222111
you dont want to answer me because i said i was not gay?
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Yeah that must be it.
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it's probably your IDE cables, hard drives, or the jumper settings. Try replacing the cables, doing s surface scan on the hard drives.
 
i know this problem is common, and there was a sollution for this, it was posted a long time ago, when i wasnt bann... i mean, when i wasnt registered yet
 
This is a Windows problem and I'd like for someone to post the solution (if there is one) as well. This has happened to me on two different systems and on two OS's on the same system, with Win98 & WinXP (all using Fat32). And not that it matters, but I'm not gay either.
 
Originally posted by: jrichrds
Definitely a software issue. I experienced that with Win98SE. Went to Win2k and the problem went away.
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I assume you went to NTFS as well? Found some more info here:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1025540409
and searching http://groups.google.com . Looks like a pretty widespread problem that MS won't own up to or fix. And this may or may not be related, but does this seem completely inexcusable to anyone else?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q153114
 
The link that Gonad the Barbarian posted here is curious; I get that even in Windows XP SP1 when I browse my D:'s download folder. The drive is FAT32, and that particular folder has 40 directories and 345 files (not counting subfolders and their contents).
There was a way around that, using Norton Speed disk - it had an option to move all folders to the front of the drive; that sped up browsing. But when Speed Disk is installed on a WinXP system, it doesn't seem to have that option; whole different interface.🙁

It is kind of sad though when a problem is detected, and is just passed on through a few operating systems over several years. Like Microsoft doesn't have the resources to fix it...
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Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Originally posted by: jrichrds
Definitely a software issue. I experienced that with Win98SE. Went to Win2k and the problem went away.
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I assume you went to NTFS as well?
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My hard disk is partitioned into two, and I did switch my boot partition to NTFS. But my second partition is still FAT32 and has none of the issues I experienced in Win98SE anymore.
 
It is kind of sad though when a problem is detected, and is just passed on through a few operating systems over several years. Like Microsoft doesn't have the resources to fix it...
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Sorry to be rude, but some of you don't know what you are talking about. It sounds like some sort of bus latency issue with some of the system buses, ie. PCI bus. If he defrags, and that does not fix it, then it is not his hard drive. First check for lost clusters on your hard drive, though. Press CTrl-alt-Delete once, and try closing as many programs as you can, and see if that helps. Check your system resources, etc. ie. scandisk. If none of this helps, then pull out all your PCI cards, but leave in your video card, boot up your system, and try it out for a while. If none of that works, the only fix I know is a format, and to redo everything, or preferably try to play with BIOS settings (use BIOS defaults) to get rid of your latency issues before you format. Install your programs one by one starting with the ones you are sure would not be causing the problem.

If scandisk, defrag, along with BIOS defaults did not help, removing unnecessary all necessary programs from memory, and running with vid card only does not fix it, then it is possible that your hard drive has a head that is defective, and reinstalling Windows may only give you a little of extra life, but you would have to replace it eventually.

Bfonnes
 
Originally posted by: bfonnes
It is kind of sad though when a problem is detected, and is just passed on through a few operating systems over several years. Like Microsoft doesn't have the resources to fix it...
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First check for lost clusters on your hard drive, though. ie. scandisk. [/quote]

Ahem... That is how it should have read... Ah, it is late. Probably should go to bed...
Bfonnes
 
yeah, he needs more help. Because he won't listen. But why did you just repeat what I just said....that's not more help...
 
hi its me again

its not a problem with hardware, this happens on my friends computer (They are not gay) all the time also...

and i remember seeing somethign around here to solve my problem....
 
Hi. I am not happy.

I don't know if this is exactly the same problem, but when I use Windows Explorer to sort large numbers of files repeatedly to different directories, or delete them, that window freezes. Other open windows still work. The frozen window comes back after 5, 10, or 20 minutes depending on how many repeats of the behavior I am willing to tolerate before I give up and reboot. Since this has been happening for years through several mobos, several HDs, ever larger memory modules, and several versions of W9x, I am sure it is a software problem. If I close the window after it unfreezes and then start up another Explorer window, the freeze problem starts sooner.

Since I started doing some wave and MP3 things, I have found that this freeze can happen with fewer files if they are very large. At one time I did not know that window would unfreeze, and I would shut it down (CTL-ALT-DEL). But the file action is always completed when I check to see.

I am not sure what a latency issue is, but this freeze used to happen on my Celeron/BX mobo before it continued with my KT133 mobo, so I don't think it is chip related.

I have never seen the solution. I have seen references saying this is well known bug. Sorry - issue. My work around is to use a different file manager. Thumbsplus has a decent one built in, although it is set up to only do media files, and not every media type. There are others (FAR), and I have an old one (for Windows) that Norton quit selling which still works (although it has massive, intrusive featuritis.) This problem has never happened with another file manager. I can even start one up and do my file management while I'm waiting for Windows Explorer to return from another dimension, a place between being and imagining, between darkness and light...

The thing is, Explorer is simpler and more convenient than any other dedicated file manager. While it is working, it bearts the heck out anything else. No wonder the others can hardly be found anywhere.

I am a heterosexual addicted to shallow attributes like appearance. You too?

 
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