Dazultra2000

UPDATE: I tried it on my other CD drive and it does the same thing. I don't remember this happening on my old KT7 system. Any ideas?

Here's a news flash. I was playing an MP3 CD just now, and the same thing happened. The track skipped ahead about 1-2 seconds. This seems to be related. It never happens when playing off the hard disk, but playing from CD does it. any suggestions now?

well the "access" light is never always on - it blinks in regular intervals when playing discs, so I assume it's not being taxed to it's full limits. This in my view proves that it's fast enough. Why wouldn't 4x be fast enough anyway, all DVD-Videos are 1x anyway. All standalone players have 1x drives (unless they are expensive and have decent scan facilities).

hmm, overall a general pain

What exactly am I looking for there? It looks like some kind of developers resource to me.

You'd be right when asking if I'd already done it All of the major devices on my computer have their own IRQ, these being sound, gfx, IDE etc Anything else?

Quote: Drive information Vendor RICOH Product DVD/CDRW MP9060 Firmware Version 1.90 Already got it mate

Nero DVD Speed 09 April 2002 - 20:27:39 Drive information Vendor RICOH Product DVD/CDRW MP9060 Firmware Version 1.90 Disc information Type DVD-Video Length 5.76 GB Test results Transfer rate Average 3.31 X Start 1.83 X End 3.23 X Reading type CAV Seek Times Random Seek 132 ms 1/3 Seek 142 ms Full Seek 209 ms CPU usage 1X 1 % Max Speed 1 % Interface Burst Rate 0.61 MB/s Spin Up/Down Time Spin Up Time 3.20 sec Spin Down Time 1.70 sec Disc Eject Time 2.55 sec Disc Load Time 10.60 sec Disc Recognition Time 0.01 sec I assume that's about right for a 4x DVD drive. Any other suggestions?

Eurgh. That program did not like my drive at all It wouldn't read ANY dvd past the 0.00GB mark, and gave a read error code (056F03) Seek time test worked, and ranged from 127ms to 211ms Is this an indication that the drive is broken?

Let me fill you in with some info first. My PC is listed in my signature, with a 10/100mbit PCI ethernet card (RealTek 8139) My brothers PC is: AMD K6-2 500 Gigabyte GA-5AX 128MB SDRAM PC100 6.4GB UDMA33 Samsung HDD Windows 2000 Pro 3dfx Velocity 100 gfx card SB PCI128 3com 3c900 Combo 10mbit PCI LAN card Both our copmuters are connected via X-Over Cat5 Cable, no hubs or switches involved. As my bro's NIC is only 10mbit, our betwork is limited to that for the moment. Now, I tried copying across a 50MB webpage from my computer today. There was a whole range of files ranging from gifs to mpegs etc. Now, this transfer of 50MB took 36 minutes! That is horribly slow, and I don't know why it took so long. Is there any reason why this might happen on an XP to 2000 transfer? It is likely to be hardware or software? It's never been this bad before, and games are usually fine over network. Any help is appreciated, and if you need any more info, please ask.

Hmm. Will have to experiment

Yeah, DMA is enabled. I should probably say that neither computer has any problems on it's own, but LAN transfers are ridiculously slow. How can I enable DMA for LAN?

I have just sold some bits to a friend (Abit KT7-RAID, 128MB Crucial SDRAM and a Duron 800). He couldn't get them to work, so he gave me the task of getting it all to work. Installation of the OS will go problem free - not an issue. However, when all is up and running, windows will give serious headaches. I have tried 98, 2000 and XP, and all do it. My problem arises as soon as the computer has full booted into windows (desktop showing, fully loaded). 99% of the time, within two minutes windows will lock up. I can still move the mouse. About 5 seconds later, the mouse will stop, and after another 30 seconds, the computer will reboot. I haven't had one single stable boot yet on this setup (yet it worked fine when I had it). Are there any ideas to what the problem is. The system is: Duron 800 Abit KT7-RAID (BIOS 7N) 128MB Crucial CAS2 PC133 SDRAM WD 20GB HDD Pioneer DVD Cheapo 54x CD-ROM Philips 4x4x20x CDRW Hercules GF2MX400 32MB DDR GFX I have tried: Reducing AGP to 2x taking out everything except the bare essentials (these being CPU/Mobo/RAM/Hard Disk/GFX) Disabling the HPT controller Installing all new drivers Installing 98/2K/XP and all of the 'usual' stuff like making sure it's all clean/plugged in etc. PLEASE can you suggest something, as I can't afford to refund his money

-unmark "Enable CD Recording on this drive" in Computer hmm..I didn't think of that one. Seeing as it's a combo drive you may be onto something there. I'll give it a whirl. (btw setting to 16bit didn't work)

Desktop is set at 32bit - and I will think ahead and try 16bit drive burns CDs fine, in fact I've done 4 today with no problems. Don't know why it's doing the whole skippy thing tho weird

Believe me, checking for shorts is the FIRST thing I do now I had some bad experience with arctic silver and a geforce 3 After 3 hours of rigourous cleaning I got it back to working order - and saved myself from the noose at the same time As for that other 5%: I am now severely limited for time. I am working tomorrow and the person is picking it back up one hour later....so basically I'm leaving it at what it is until he can spare some more time. At least it is in a workable state at the moment. I'm still very much up for suggestions though. He has already bough a new sound card, and I have recommended he try a new PSU. Anything else that I can relay on to him would be very useful though - and might just save my bacon Financial troubles are high when you've never been approved for credit before

Unfortunately I have already done 95% of what you have listed there. The only thing I can't do is test the hardware on another KT7 - but I tested it on my KR7A - and it worked. Still looking for options.

I tried a S3 Trio, 3dfx Velocity and GF3 Ti200 and the same happened. so it's the PSU?

PSU is his own, and is 250W...is this a possible cause? RAM is fine - tested it in my machine CPU is also fine - works in my system CPU temps are at the same level as they were when I had it, 35-38°C Fan is brand new and is whirring away at 5000rpm+ Heatsink is set fine What I have done, is disabled ACPI, the HPT controller and reinstalled. This appears to have worked. I do still get some lockups, but not the same as before. Usually happened when installing new hardware. I went to install his soundcard (an awful old ISA SB16) and it installed fine. Get to play a sound, and nothing happens. I don't know why this is, but I tried my old PCI128 and it worked flawlessly with actually decent sound. I had to do a fair bit of jiggery [censored]y with his WinTV card though, as IRQs seem to be very picky. Any suggestions because he wants to have his soft-power-off back. And I would like to ideally be able to re-enable the HPT as well.

Only thing I can suggest is creating a new profile, and copying your software/favourites/cookies across. Make sure you don't copy and user.dats or desktop.inis etc cos it could be them causing your problem. Just view all files (including hidden and system files) and copy all normal ones. Unfortunately there is no way to recover a broken profile as far as I know - that's it.

I managed to run it fine (it went to desktop once in about 50 goes) with all of the lovely bump-mapping eye candy on. Have you tried selecting compatibility mode on dkii.exe properties. Select Windows98/Me

Yes, but as with all things concerning me, it happened on the very time I was going to back up I was actually logging in to back up, and that's when it broke. Irony is not my friend

This hasn't happened to me on XP, but it did happen to me on 2000, and is what really swayed me to XP.. I had built up a very nice user profile, and had a lot of work in there. One day I go to load it, and get denied. Format, XP, happy. Don't we all love MS

NOOOOO It's come back Once again I can't open a video file without getting a lockup. I tried to clean off my card again. Heck, I even re-applied arctic silver to it and all. So now I am stuck. Here is a list of events: 1) Discover I can't open any video files + certainb applications 2) Format to find the same thing happens 3) Test Geforce256 card. It works twice, and then the same thing happens to that too 4) Take geforce3 and clean it off, replace and find it works again 5) Reformat to fix some sound problems that were APIC related (Not ACPI) 6) Rediscover problem and get very annoyed And here is a list of things I have tried: Detonator 23.11, 27.20, 27.42, 27.51 Via 4in1 4.37a Via 4.10 AGP GART Via PFD patch Increase I/O voltage alter AGP driving values Set all RAM and AGP options to the most conservative Tried the infinite loop fix in nvmax (although I doubt this is 100% infinite loop related) re-flashed BIOS wiped CMOS Don't forget the system has been 100% for at least a month until now. Any ideas? This is beginning to seriously worry me

To answer your question...yes, I had tried everything under the sun.. however, all now seems well (ish) I took out the GF3 and cleaned it. Rubbed everything off it and blew duest out of the nooks and crannies. I put it back in and it worked 1st time So now my system works(ish). Shame I formatted though. I am now, however, getting random lockups (possibly related to the infinite loop). I have just installed the latest 4in1s though, so we'll see how it develops.