slow mouse pointer

[matluz1]

Hi,
I hope this is a simple problem. My mouse pointer and other programme operations are slow when I am copying files from one folder to another. All applications slow down.
I just built my pc.. SPEC nvidia gf4 ti4200, nvidia 415da mbd, 30 gb maxtor hdd, and pc2700 ram with a amd athlon 1800 XP I have several settings for the RAM in xbios all seem to have result in my pc becoming slower when I want to run anythig hile copying files etc.
I am just guessing at the ram being the problem could it be anything else???

Much appreciated
Mat

 

[resort]

well you could maybe turn your machine to a "network server" under my computer it could improve your copying speed a bit

 

[CMRvet]

Do you have DMA Enabled?

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[Cooldoud]

Isnt it normal ? I mean, I thought this was because the whole IDE bandwidth was used and hence Windows could not access system files as fast as it would usually do ? Not talking about the cursor slowdown, bur just the overall performance of the PC

 

[CMRvet]

of course the overall performance will slow down, but looks like that in this case it's "more than normal". Very subjetive topic.....

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[CMRvet]

Some questions:
1) How full is your HDD?
2) Just to confirm: is your HDD a 5400 rpm model?
3) Download sisoftsandra, update it and then run the FILE SYSTEM BENCHMARK and let us know your score.

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