my computer:
Asus A8N-SLi Premium board.
couple of SATA drives & IDE drive.
pcie x800 card with omega drivers.
windows xp sp2 patched up on windowsupdate
i built this machine about a year ago now i guess and pretty much since build i have had this weird problem. when i try to open a txt/jpg/avi/mp3 etc etc file in whatever program the computer hangs for about 1-3 seconds then it loads the file fine. once the file is open i can drag another file into the program and it loads instananiously. the problem comes if i go back to explorer and double click it to load a file, then i get the 1-3 second pause. it doesnt matter if the application is open. as you can imagine it is very annoying. on the weekend i formatted the system and started again.
slowly i built the machine up, i noticed immediately after format on fresh win xp minus drivers it didnt exhibit any of the pausing. i loaded up my basic apps and went to test it again and sure enough i get the annoying pause problem. the problem is also present if i try and delete a file in the explorer. once ive said delete there is a pause before bringing up the confirmation dialogue box.
here is what i installed.
nforce chipset drivers
omega vid drivers
nforce / audio drivers
onboard marvell nic drivers
windowsupdate patches
mediaplayer classic
winamp
azureus
winace
peerguardian2
thats it. i didnt do ANY tweaking to the system, so what are my options here. im thinking perhaps a BIOS update but the machine is performing fine otherwise...help.
Asus A8N-SLi Premium board.
couple of SATA drives & IDE drive.
pcie x800 card with omega drivers.
windows xp sp2 patched up on windowsupdate
i built this machine about a year ago now i guess and pretty much since build i have had this weird problem. when i try to open a txt/jpg/avi/mp3 etc etc file in whatever program the computer hangs for about 1-3 seconds then it loads the file fine. once the file is open i can drag another file into the program and it loads instananiously. the problem comes if i go back to explorer and double click it to load a file, then i get the 1-3 second pause. it doesnt matter if the application is open. as you can imagine it is very annoying. on the weekend i formatted the system and started again.
slowly i built the machine up, i noticed immediately after format on fresh win xp minus drivers it didnt exhibit any of the pausing. i loaded up my basic apps and went to test it again and sure enough i get the annoying pause problem. the problem is also present if i try and delete a file in the explorer. once ive said delete there is a pause before bringing up the confirmation dialogue box.
here is what i installed.
nforce chipset drivers
omega vid drivers
nforce / audio drivers
onboard marvell nic drivers
windowsupdate patches
mediaplayer classic
winamp
azureus
winace
peerguardian2
thats it. i didnt do ANY tweaking to the system, so what are my options here. im thinking perhaps a BIOS update but the machine is performing fine otherwise...help.