Re: [Thinkpad] Maintenance sw and SLOW loading of data files in various apps

Paul, Matt, Ray, Michael, Rob, et alia..

thanks for your inputs and suggestions. This is what I have before I
read your msgs:

-- Both HDDs are 7200 RPM.
-- ALL my partitions are NTFS .. except the IBM-Service which is FAT32.
-- My Swap File (should be in my D partition 4038MB.. sometimes reverts
to C) was now in C at 2048MB (2GB memory .. and all is available) .. and
now re-directed back to D.
-- Under Device Manager .. IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers .. have two
instances of "Primary IDE Channel", both reporting "Auto Detection" /
"DMA if available" / Ultra DMA Mode 5A .. for Device "0" and "1".
-- Norton has not reported any infections .. have weekly total scans,
and I am not aware of any new silent installs (BTW how does one hunt for
these?).

Frank K-F
========

To test .. I started my AutoCAD and loaded a 19MB file ... took about
2.5 minutes, by my guesstimate up to twice as long as it should.

Rob Bell wrote:

> [I just realized that I had replied with this info to the wrong thread
> earlier. Oops.]
>
> I think I remembered where to look for this. I'm assuming you use
> WinXP... this might not help if you're not. Open Device Manager and
> look at the properties of 'Primary IDE Channel' under the 'IDE
> ATA/ATAPI controllers' section. Go to the 'Advanced Settings' tab.
> Your drive should be set to 'DMA if available', not PIO. If it is PIO
> then this could be why your drive is slow.
>
> Rob
>
> Rob Bell wrote:
>
>> I seem to recall a discussion from some time back where someone's
>> drive had slipped into a slower mode (PIO vs. DMA or something). I
>> really didn't pay that much attention, but hearing your issue it
>> sounds kind of similar. You might want to research things from that
>> aspect. Perhaps your drive recently had some errors and Windows
>> decided to drop it back to some slower 'lowest common denominator'
>> setting.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> Frank K-F wrote:
>>
>>> Been following this thread with interest ... and believe I have a
>>> related issue.
>>>
>>> About two weeks ago, my A31p (W-XP-SP2) has started to load data
>>> files (Lotus-123, AutoCad, Photoshop, etc) at a snail's pace ..
>>> certainly much slower that before. The apps load at about the same
>>> speed as before in my judgment.
>>>
>>> I defragged all my partitions (keep my data files in F:\ whenever
>>> the apps permit) but that did not help. So I am now beginning to
>>> think that perhaps my 'Norton Internet Security-2006' is the cause.
>>> What is strange is that I had this Norton upgrade installed several
>>> months ago .. yet the sudden slow-down only occurred two weeks ago.
>>>
>>> Any ideas .. and hints how to proceed ... without losing the
>>> 'protection' of my AV and firewall?
>>>
>>> Frank K-F
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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Received on Sun Oct 1 20:02:27 2006