Very recently, my boyfriend installed Win2k. Now I personally love Win2k because Im very nearly technologically retarded and so long as it boots up and loads photoshop, I’m a happy duck. Boy is not nearly as easily placated as I am and has posed the following question and I have NO earthly clue what he’s asking, let alone what the answer may be.
Any less technologically-challenged individuals willing to help a doper out before her head explodes in a fiery, electronically-induced KABOOM?
Okay so here’s the prollem…incredibly annoying lag spikes in Win2k…they last about .5 - 1 second, and they happen randomly between 10-20 seconds.
All of these happen at the same time…sound interference when playing an mp3…sounds like it stretches the note all the way out until its done lagging, sometimes it squeals…the mouse jerks/quits, anything thats going on basically stops in its tracks.
I am using a Promise ata/100 controller and with the ungodly amount of problems those have with win2k I assumed it was because they were stuck in PIO mode, i fixed that issue and it turned out to be half of the problem…because now it doesnt do it during disk access at all its completely random. I did have an extreme IRQ conflict, all of my important devices were assigned to IRQ9 by win2k, I changed the ACPI driver to standard and reinstalled everything with its up to date drivers, even the motherboard/ata 100 crap. So now I’ve got absolutely no conflicts at all, no applications running in the background aside from the absolutely necessary ones and it still randomly does this. Everything on this machine is up to date as far as any service packs and patches go. So now I’m not sure where the problem lies, but it pretty much makes doing anything extremely frustrating, even typing this :). if i throw my other hard drive in that has a WinME install on it, its flawless, so I don’t believe its any kind of hardware failure or conflict. Any ideas??
To help him, ask him to give his full system specifications, not just the IDE controller. Also, make sure he has Service Pack 4 installed.