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From: kirkm on 23 May 2010 06:37 I had one of my SCSI CDRoms die and removed it. Since then opening certain things (in particular .jpg and .htm) files takes about 12 seconds. Yet other things are fine, .txt for one. I'm going to put the drive back as a test, but wondered if anyone had seen this before and also if there's any way to find out what Windows is actually doing for that 12 seconds? I did defrag but no improvement. Thanks. -- kirkm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kirkm's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/111524.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/1339964.htm http://forums.techarena.in
From: Shenan Stanley on 23 May 2010 07:44 kirkm wrote: > I had one of my SCSI CDRoms die and removed it. Since then opening > certain things (in particular .jpg and .htm) files takes about 12 > seconds. Yet other things are fine, .txt for one. > > I'm going to put the drive back as a test, but wondered if anyone > had seen this before and also if there's any way to find out what > Windows is actually doing for that 12 seconds? I did defrag but no > improvement. If all you had die was a CDROM drive and you replaced said CDROM drive with something else or removed it from the equation and unless you are talking about accessing said files from CD/DVD anyway - there is no relationship *unless* your hard drives were/are hooked to the same controller and the controller is defective/misconfigured. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
From: kirkm on 23 May 2010 08:09 The SCSI CD drives were on their own controller, and the replacement is an IDE device which I connected to a PCI IDE controller shared with 2 HDs. There's also 2 SATA HD's. I'll try to reverse engineer the changes, just to see... even right clicking a folder now to invoke Search takes 10-12 seconds. Without even an hourglass (thought that appears if you click again). Perhaps time for a re-install. After trying the above as it seems very coincidental. I assume there is no way to log, or find out, what's happening during the delay? -- kirkm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kirkm's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/111524.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/1339964.htm http://forums.techarena.in
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