Re: Search conditions in Message Finder

[Raymund Tump]

Hi Mark,

> This  PC  (XP): 8 minutes to boot. Sometimes it takes 3 boots
> before it starts up, because it hangs twice (almost at the
> end of booting).

I had that problem on three different PCs now. It always was the DMA
mode. For some reasons Windows believed the disk wasn't able to do DMA
and fall back to PIO which is incredibly slow.

Check your controller if it is using PIO if so fix it :-) (Send me a
private mail if you need with that.)

-- 
Kind regards
Raymund



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Re: Search conditions in Message Finder

[Jernej Simončič]

On Thursday, February 3, 2011, 16:32:34, Mark Partous wrote:

> This  PC  (XP): 8 minutes to boot. Sometimes it takes 3 boots
> before it starts up, because it hangs twice (almost at the
> end of booting). If that happens I have lost half an hour. Problem
> first occurred after Professional insurance software to
> connect to several insurance companies' servers had been installed.

Make sure your hard drive isn't dying - slow boot up is often a
symptom of that (of course, if that VPN software you installed has
broken drivers, that's not Windows' problem). I don't have any XP
machines anymore (except in VMWare), but I don't remember seeing any
that needed more than 2 minutes to boot, even on slow laptops.

-- 
< Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ >

Nobody notices when things go right.
   -- Zimmerman's Law of Complaints



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