Author Topic: general PC question......is this bad? (Read 491 times)

Tracer-15 · « **on:** May 29, 2002, 02:59:02 PM »

is it bad when de-frag and scandisk dont work at all.......de-frag keeps going from "Calculating disk fragmentation precentage"...to "Disk contents changed:Restating".......thats all it does....and for scandisk it stays at checking file allocation folders........it was there for an hour and nothing...and on system monitor....it says Kernel: Processor Usage 100.......and it doesnt change.......everything seems to be getting slower and sticking....what it up with this thing

snafu · « **Reply #1 on:** May 29, 2002, 03:36:34 PM »

Hi Tracer-15,
The first thing I would check is do you have anything else running at the time?

If you "Alt Ctrl Delete" it should pull up a task list. kill everything except "Explorer" & "Systray"

Finally don't forget to kill your screensaver ("screensaver" tab in "Display properties" - Select "none").

Then try again, I do a thorough scandisk & Defrag every week on a 40g drive. The scandisk takes hours but the defrag not to long at all.

TTFN
snafu

Tracer-15 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2002, 03:55:57 PM »

now i find that in ALL my major games.....Silent Hunter II....AH.....f15........all of them....the sound is stuttering and the display is jerky......i cant play any of them .......they used to work fine.......then i went on a four day trip to florida with my school band......came back for a few days.....didnt do much on the pc.....then went for memorial weekend to West Virginia to go caveing....came back and all this crap is happening..oh yes and defrag and scan still dont work right....does this mean i need new PC?

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #3 on:** May 29, 2002, 04:02:33 PM »

Almost sounds like a virtual memory error. Either its set too small or there isn't enough free drive space for it to opperate.

AKDejaVu

Lephturn · « **Reply #4 on:** May 30, 2002, 09:13:30 PM »

Something is running in the background it sounds like.

Time to flatten it I think. Do any upgrades you can afford and put 2k Pro or XP Pro on from scratch.

You don't say what OS you are talking about, but from the behaviour it must be 9x/ME. This is a sign to dump the crap OS and put 2k or XP on it.

sprint · « **Reply #5 on:** May 30, 2002, 10:04:42 PM »

If your running Win 98 .. here's my two cents

Probably because something in the background is running that is accessing the drive, causing the drive contents to change, and defrag to keep starting over. Realplayer and realjukebox are famous for this.

Try doing your defrags with nothing but explorer and systray running.... and kill all screensavers too.

1. Go to System Configuration Utility/StartUp and see how many items you have checked off ... unchecked as many as you can, [Your not deleting anything and can always be rechecked]

2.Make sure screen savers are turn off

3. Do a scan disk ...

4. Do a DeFrag ... if you can't ... do a search and find a file called "applog" and rename it "applogOLD" or something like that and do a defrag again ...this time their should be no problems.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q218160

5. Reboot while hold down the "Ctrl Key" .. and when you get in to the DOS window ... choose item #5 and at the C Prompt type scanreg /fix ... when the program is finished type in "win" at the C prompt and it will get you back to windows.

Should be no problems at this point.

sprint
*MOL*

PS: Let us know what happen