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Ken Ray
Every few seconds my system hangs up then releases. It is
very noticeable when video is playing, during games, and
you can experience this by testing the direct draw and
direct 3d features with dxdiag. This did not occur under
98SE. Nothing has changed in my computer since the Win98
SE configuration except for a new hard drive. I changed
to a new hard drive and installed XP Home with a clean
install to try to eliminate this problem. One of the
first things I did after installing the fresh operating
system was to test this phenomenon. It is still
happening. Obviously the problem has nothing to do with a
clean install of XP. I have a soyo dragon ultra platinum
board with a Athlon XP 2200+. Radeon 9700 pro video card
and UDMA mode 5 on one drive and mode 3 on the other. My
DVD is UDMA and my CDRW is DMA mode 2. In other words, I
have enough computer it should run. I have tried running
the CD's on PIO to see if they were a problem, but that
changed nothing. every few seconds my CDRW light comes on
and this is roughly about when the system hangs. However,
I have removed this drive and tested and it made no
difference on this problem.
I need some ideas. I did not have this problem under 98
SE. I have never seen it with any other computer running
XP. all my drivers are up to date. The only thing that
is measurable is that I have a problem under XP home that
never existed under 98SE. I guess I need to uninstall XP
and take it back to Costco because I can't seem to get it
to run at an acceptable level and I can't seem to get any
help from Microsoft on this. So far every one just reads
out of a script and doesn't seem to know as much about
computers as I do.
Ken Ray
very noticeable when video is playing, during games, and
you can experience this by testing the direct draw and
direct 3d features with dxdiag. This did not occur under
98SE. Nothing has changed in my computer since the Win98
SE configuration except for a new hard drive. I changed
to a new hard drive and installed XP Home with a clean
install to try to eliminate this problem. One of the
first things I did after installing the fresh operating
system was to test this phenomenon. It is still
happening. Obviously the problem has nothing to do with a
clean install of XP. I have a soyo dragon ultra platinum
board with a Athlon XP 2200+. Radeon 9700 pro video card
and UDMA mode 5 on one drive and mode 3 on the other. My
DVD is UDMA and my CDRW is DMA mode 2. In other words, I
have enough computer it should run. I have tried running
the CD's on PIO to see if they were a problem, but that
changed nothing. every few seconds my CDRW light comes on
and this is roughly about when the system hangs. However,
I have removed this drive and tested and it made no
difference on this problem.
I need some ideas. I did not have this problem under 98
SE. I have never seen it with any other computer running
XP. all my drivers are up to date. The only thing that
is measurable is that I have a problem under XP home that
never existed under 98SE. I guess I need to uninstall XP
and take it back to Costco because I can't seem to get it
to run at an acceptable level and I can't seem to get any
help from Microsoft on this. So far every one just reads
out of a script and doesn't seem to know as much about
computers as I do.
Ken Ray