Hi,
I just got a new setup: 900Mhz Athlon, MSI k7TPro2A mobo, 256 megs of mem, Maxtor ATA100 HD, Radeon DDR graphics card, basically a pretty decent rig. However in Windows 2000 whenever I minimize or close an application my system "pauses" for a couple of seconds, basically I can't click anything and in some cases the cursor won't even move.
The pause is longer with larger applications. For example, the pause is barely noticeable with IE, but if I open a large image in Photoshop and then when I exit or minimize, the pause can be up to 15 seconds long where the computer won't respond to anything.
I opened task manager and monitored the memory usage: there's always free physical RAM, but the cpu usage gets pegged at 100%.
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening and even better, how I can fix it?
I also have Win98 on my machine and I don't have the same problem there at all. (Could it perhaps have something to do with my hard drive being partitioned and having two OS's?
One more thing: at first I was using the sound card built into the mobo, but my music would stutter and skip whenever I opened or closed any application - it was horrible. So I baught a SB Live and the problem diminished significantly, but it's still there (while my system is "paused" the music still plays even though the mouse won't respond - it'll stutter a bit if it's a medium sized app, or it will stop completely if it's a really big app like photoshop).
Thanks in advance for any help.
PS - I already checked to make sure DMA was enabled, installed latest VIA 4in1 driver, all other drivers are up to date, on another forum some guy mentioned that he had same problem and it was the printer driver doing it - not with me, fiddled with the bios a bit - but I'm not an expert there. So basically I've tried everything I can think of. ARG! Please help.
I just got a new setup: 900Mhz Athlon, MSI k7TPro2A mobo, 256 megs of mem, Maxtor ATA100 HD, Radeon DDR graphics card, basically a pretty decent rig. However in Windows 2000 whenever I minimize or close an application my system "pauses" for a couple of seconds, basically I can't click anything and in some cases the cursor won't even move.
The pause is longer with larger applications. For example, the pause is barely noticeable with IE, but if I open a large image in Photoshop and then when I exit or minimize, the pause can be up to 15 seconds long where the computer won't respond to anything.
I opened task manager and monitored the memory usage: there's always free physical RAM, but the cpu usage gets pegged at 100%.
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening and even better, how I can fix it?
I also have Win98 on my machine and I don't have the same problem there at all. (Could it perhaps have something to do with my hard drive being partitioned and having two OS's?
One more thing: at first I was using the sound card built into the mobo, but my music would stutter and skip whenever I opened or closed any application - it was horrible. So I baught a SB Live and the problem diminished significantly, but it's still there (while my system is "paused" the music still plays even though the mouse won't respond - it'll stutter a bit if it's a medium sized app, or it will stop completely if it's a really big app like photoshop).
Thanks in advance for any help.
PS - I already checked to make sure DMA was enabled, installed latest VIA 4in1 driver, all other drivers are up to date, on another forum some guy mentioned that he had same problem and it was the printer driver doing it - not with me, fiddled with the bios a bit - but I'm not an expert there. So basically I've tried everything I can think of. ARG! Please help.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram