I think I need a format?

[Priapus]

Morning all,

Over the last six months I've noticed that my pc at home has been getting slower and slower. This morning I was burning a CD whiles listening to music. Once the CD had started burning, my music skipped and jumped like a scratched disc. The whole PC just slowed down to a hault.

I was burning the CD at 16x - 2400 Kb/s.

My system specs are:

AMD 64 - 3400+
1Gb DDR Ram.
160Gb SATA HDD.
X800XT AGP GFX.
Nec 3500A DVD-RW drive.
Shuttle system.

I was also playing Need for Speed: Most Wanted last night and every few seconds the screen paused for a split second. It even did it in the movies in the game. Now my system specs should be able to play this game at max specs. It has done it before perfect.

However I highly doubt that burning a CD and listening to music would bring my system to it's knee??

Does there sound like an issue here guys?

Many thanks all!

 

[Priapus]

Anyone?

 

[OzZie]

If you dont want to format, remove all the crap you dont need (apps, folders etc) then run adaware and spybot S&D. Do a disk cleanup, defragmentation and then load "msconfig" and disable all the unwanted startup rubbish.

Note: Formatting is quicker and less hassle

 

[Priapus]

You see the PC isn't connected top the Internet. So there won't be much spyware on the system. Also I hardly have any crap on there. I make sure my system is pretty clean, and orginised. However this problem is starting to annoy me. Surely my system specs are good enough to do CD burning and listening to music at the same time?

 

[masterk]

CD burning and encoding puts a huge load on the CPU, playing music is not non-intensive either, A64's arent strong in this area, i think its normal.

 

[Lysander]

How long have you had the hard drive? I've had mine for a couple of years and I had to reformat it last night. Windows is very quick now!!

 

[squiffy]

Do the usual hardware tests, software cleanup, check bios settings, hard disc scan and fix, delete temp files, defrag.

Although probably easier to backup your data and do a fresh install.

 

[Priapus]

I have had the hard drive for about a year now.

I think a fresh install might fix things.
Also, while I'm here, I know this isn't the right place, however I would like to know what is the best drivers for ATi X800 series cards?

 

[Uhtred]

It sounds to me like your cd burner is in PIO mode and not DMA, it happens to me at random times.

 

[OzZie]

I have had the hard drive for about a year now.

I think a fresh install might fix things.
Also, while I'm here, I know this isn't the right place, however I would like to know what is the best drivers for ATi X800 series cards?

Get Cat 6.6. Newest and most up to date. Small perfomance increases all around too