-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Rant about Sluggishness during file transfer.
- From: ~OoO~ <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:36:40 -0400
Really quick question before we dwell further into this whole problem...=20
Are you using the RAID controller at all?
---Troth
At 9/20/2003 09:15 AM, you wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>It was recommended to me that I should join this list and air what's
>happened here.
>
>
>I had to get a new mobo and cpu fitted
>into my machine. Also some new RAM.
>
>It was one of those deals I brought my machine into a electronics store=
here
>in Northern Ireland. A big one, they have franchises all over the UK.
>Maplins, is there name.
>
>I brought it in because during the XP install on booting from cd it would
>copy the files then say it was going to reboot and when it would boot up
>again it woudl say a file was missing....
>
>Anyway the tech in Maplisn thought it was the graphics card, then the cpu,
>then it turned out to be my 256stick and 128 sticks of SD RAM were bad as
>well? I've had this machine for about 3 years and never had any problems
>with it. In terms of RAM at any rate. In fact I only fitted the 256 about
>two years back when I first installed win xp home on here.
>
>So I'd to buy a new 512 stick of DDR RAM.....
>
>I think I was ripped there, but unfortunately I can't prove it. I've no
>tech friends to test this mobo and cpu and RAM out....
>
>Anyways the cpu he fitted was a, AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+.
>
>I've noticed that when I'm copying files from either cd rom onto the hard
>drive the computer appears sluggish during this copy. If I'm playing a
>music file in Winamp whilst this is copying Winamp skips a bit. If I'm
>playing a video file in Winamp whilst copying from one hard drive to=
another
>it stops and starts like nobodys business. However, if I'm copying from or
>to the other drives in the machine everythings fine. And I can quite=
happly
>paly music and video files. Either on a seperate drive to where the data
>copying is going on or to drives involved in the copy process.
>
>Now I never, ever got this with my 384RAM and 750mhz AMD Athlon cpu.
>
>Has anyone any idea what this is?
>
>I've brought it back a number of times.
>
>They've changed data cables, re-arranged the hard drives because it was
>stalling during boot up. Apparently because the RAID card was taking=
contro
>l? Despite the c drive being set to primary master and it being plugged
>into the mobo.
>
>When I fired up partition magic the c drive was being listed as drive 2.
>Which was very odd. When I brought it back from the shop after they fixed
>the RAID card from stalling the system the c drive was listed as drive 3!
>
>I've rang them up this morning explaining to them that I'm not happy with
>the service.
>
>I've paid out =A3204 so far on parts and labour in there and the machine=
isn't
>running satasfactory.
>
>I was told that the tech had tryed everything he could and he could either,
>
>1. Replace my old mobo and cpua nd RAM.
>
>To which I replyed, "Waht's the point in doing that if they don't work"?
>
>2. Upgrade this new mobo they've just put in?
>"To whcih I replyed well the other mobo that couldn't take this AMD Athlawn
>2000 xp must have been a smasher because I never got this sluggishness on=
it
>when transfering files".
>
>I've still no idea what specifically was wrong with the machine in the=
first
>place and now they are talking about fitted a new c drive????????
>
>I'm dying with a chest infection/cold here and this computer problem has
>went on for almost a friggin month now guys!
>
>If I just ask for a full refund it will involve me taking it somewhere else
>to get it repaired. I've no idea where to go to that is reliable here in
>Belfast. And a place that isn't going to rip the arse out of it in terms=
of
>labour cost.
>
>Also I'm in college so I can't afford to have my computer gone for any more
>than a few days, in the most.
>
>I'm really at a loss.
>
>A guy on the winxphelp list told me he was.
>
>1. Burning a cd using Nero.
>2. Playing a video file.
>3. Uploading files to an ftp.
>4. Copying files from one network drive to another witht he same cpu as me
>and never got any skipping?
>
>Which leads me to believe that it's either.
>
>1. The c drive.
>2. The new mobo.
>
>3. The RAID card and the mobo not liking each other?
>
>Can anyone give me any suggestions of what to do here?
>
>Sorry for the grammer and typos I'm very sick and everytime I think about
>this all it just gets me going.
>
>Don't get me wrong I'm not raving, swinging off the light on the ceiling=
nor
>am impolite when talking to the techs.
>
>We've just actually rang the store again because my father was getting
>annoyed this because the fella that was on the phone this morning wasn't=
the
>most helpful of all people. His exact words were, "I've tryed all I can".
>And that's fair enough but the fact is I brought the machien down with a
>problem had to replace all these parts, now it might be a problem with a c
>drive I bought from them in the first place under a year ago lol.
>
>It's a real old pantomime.
>
>My father spoke to the manager there now and then put me on to explain what
>was replaced and what work was done.
>
>The guy and I quote said half through my explanation of at first they
>thought it was this, then that, now this.
>
>"Oh, I think i see where this is going".
>
>So I'm bringing the machine back on Wednesday afternoon. And the manager=
is
>going to be there.
>
><sigh>
>
>I'm off for a lay down as I'm caufing my lungs up here. Lovely eh?
>
>lol
>
>Barry
>
>
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