[diabillic]

Please post a screenshot of your running processes using Process Explorer

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Not sure i understand what problem you are having with memtest. Can you explain this more. Are you booting to the cd from bootup? Windows should not be running at all when you are running the memtest.

[rshaffer61]

Not sure i understand what problem you are having with memtest. Can you explain this more. Are you booting to the cd from bootup? Windows should not be running at all when you are running the memtest.

[Rowlee]

yes, got it running.
memtest86+-2.11.iso file took about 1hr 40 min.
to test.. analysis..no errors.
didnt say if it kept a log. should it?

avast is taking high cpu. so guess have to always wait til it completes.

[rshaffer61]

ok I need you to do the following and let me know what it says

Click the Start and then Right click My Computer
Select Manage and In the Computer Management window, select Device Manager
In the right pane, click to expand IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
The click on the + sign next to your CD/DVD drive controller which will most likely be the Secondary Controller
Right click on the drive and select Properties
Click the Advanced Settings tab
In the Transfer Mode box that represents your CD/DVD drive (typically Device 1); open the dropdown menu and select PIO Only
Click OK and exit all windows
Reboot to make sure all settings take affect and then try your cdrom drive. Reply back with your results






For HD only



Let's make sure all drives are using DMA mode

Click the Start and then Right click My Computer
Select Manage and In the Computer Management window, select Device Manager
In the right pane, click to expand IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
The click on the + sign next to your Hard drive controllers on both the Primary Controller and Secondary Controller
Right click on the drive and select Properties
Click the Advanced Settings tab
In the Transfer Mode box open the drop down menu and select DMA if available
Redo the steps to check each of the Controllers
Click OK and exit all windows
Reboot to make sure all settings take affect. Reply back with your results

[Rowlee]

OK I set it on PIO only and both E and F drives are working.

[rshaffer61]

E and F are your cdrom drives I take it?

[Rowlee]

will let you know how its working now.

[Rowlee]

yes E and F are the CDRom drives.

[rshaffer61]

OK thats good. Did you check the HD ones if they are IDE and make sure they are set to DMA?

[Rowlee]

after setting and restart again

for device 0
Primary IDE channel
current transfer mode is 'Ultra DMA mode 5'. and
transfer mode window says 'DMA if available'.

for device 1 says 'auto detection'
transfer mode is 'DMA if available'
current tr mode says 'not applicable'.

secondary IDE channel
device 0
transfer mode: 'DMA if available'
current transfer mode is: 'multi-word DMA mode 2'

device 1
transfer mode: DMA if available
current tr mode: PIO mode.

this is after setting for DMA. and restart.

still using high cpu.

[rshaffer61]

OK do the instructions from post 46 and attach the screenshot from it.

[Rowlee]

process explorer shows:
going on-line this morning avast, dr watson postmortem over 50%, and win update are taking 100% cpu. wonder why drwatson is suddenly running.. havent been using it. and no update download being shown. FF was very slow to load.

[Rowlee]

unloaded file hippo in startups. now drwatson and win update not running. cpu is low.
FF started quick. cpu is low with 6 windows open.

[rshaffer61]

This is great to hear. I personally disable Watson because it aggravates me to no end. Please let us know how it works once you are completed with all the updates are finished as we like to know good or bad.

[Rowlee]

Hi Shaffer: I dont know how to get a screenshot of PE.
what do you think of pcPitstop? their full scan seems to get a lot of info. and claim it will clean it all up properly.
Roland