Graphics Problem

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mcottier

New Member
Hey. I had a graphics problem I was hoping someone could help me with. I have a 1.95ghz proccessor, 1.25gb RAM, and an ATI radeon 9250 series 256MB video card. My problem is, that whenever I am watching a movie or playing a video game, it always freezes for a second, then resumes. It does this like every minute. (its like lag) When this happens to movies, the movie freezes for a second, but the audio keeps going. Then when it resumes, it catches up real quick with the audio. Why does it do this? I think this happens because my hard drive cannot read data quick enough for my computer. Is that known to happen? And if that is the case, I should get a hard drive with a higher RPM, right? Thanks.

Sincerely,
Michael Cottier
 
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mcottier

New Member
Nothing to do with cd rom, because all movies are on my computers hard drive, (I edit videos for my website). And my games I install to the computers hard drive to. My hard drive is a Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model 6E040L0. here are the specs:

Capacity: 40GB
Average Seek Time: 10 ms
Buffer: 2MB
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Interface: IDE ULTRA ATA133
Features: Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) Motors
Manufacturer Warranty: 1 year
Packaging: OEM Drive only

Thanks.
 
Blue

Blue

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After you've got it sorted out check this site out http://www.tweakhardware.com/guide/maxtor-noice/

Maxtor lowers the seek speeds of some of the drives to lower noise. Using a little utility you can speed it up a bit but I'd recommend fixing whatever it wrong first :)..

I've ran the utility with my drive and it worked like a charm but wether it works with your particuler hd remains to be seen :)..
 
Lorand

Lorand

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Start / Settings / Control panel / System / Hardware / Device manager / IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers / Primary IDE channel
Right click on it, then Properties and go to Advanced settings tab.
 
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mcottier

New Member
i think it is enabled. it says:
transfer mode: DMA if available
current transfer mode: ultra dma mode 6

does that mean it is enabled already?
 
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