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tmgkeith
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Hi, I've been having long time problems with my new system. I have a clone CPU with a Athlon 1700+ GHZ chip, 512 MB of RAM and an All-In-Wonder Raedeon 7500 video card.
The identical Maxtor 40GB drives are striped with I believe a RAID 0 config and running on XP. The striped drive is partitioned 15/56 GB, with XP on C (15 GB).
The motherboard is a KT3 Ultra 2 by MSI. The Promise FastTrack 133 Lite controller for the RAID is updated with an XP driver, although strangely, it has not been "logo" certified by Windows. I had went ahead with the install because it wouldn't recognize my hard drives without it.
Anyway, here are the problems...
1) I get hangs of 5 to 10 seconds every 2 to 5 minutes during the day-to-day operations of my PC. It seems to happen more often during the use of online applications (cable modem based) and got worse with the more drivers/software I installed.
The hangs or pauses (no crashes) interfere with my productivity. I've been told to try another OS to see if it is the actual RAID ports malfunctioning. I doubt this because the store replaced the motherboard because they thought it was the problem.
2) I also have difficulty installing software updates and Windows patches too. Some times they just refuse to install or work.
I don't know if the two are related, but I have to figure this out. Has anyone had similar problems out there? More importantly, does anyone know how to fix it? Is a driver issue? The OS? My USB 2 ports and a second older ATI PCI card don't work and are disabled.
Thanks a lot guys. Any, I mean any help is appreciated.
Keith
The identical Maxtor 40GB drives are striped with I believe a RAID 0 config and running on XP. The striped drive is partitioned 15/56 GB, with XP on C (15 GB).
The motherboard is a KT3 Ultra 2 by MSI. The Promise FastTrack 133 Lite controller for the RAID is updated with an XP driver, although strangely, it has not been "logo" certified by Windows. I had went ahead with the install because it wouldn't recognize my hard drives without it.
Anyway, here are the problems...
1) I get hangs of 5 to 10 seconds every 2 to 5 minutes during the day-to-day operations of my PC. It seems to happen more often during the use of online applications (cable modem based) and got worse with the more drivers/software I installed.
The hangs or pauses (no crashes) interfere with my productivity. I've been told to try another OS to see if it is the actual RAID ports malfunctioning. I doubt this because the store replaced the motherboard because they thought it was the problem.
2) I also have difficulty installing software updates and Windows patches too. Some times they just refuse to install or work.
I don't know if the two are related, but I have to figure this out. Has anyone had similar problems out there? More importantly, does anyone know how to fix it? Is a driver issue? The OS? My USB 2 ports and a second older ATI PCI card don't work and are disabled.
Thanks a lot guys. Any, I mean any help is appreciated.
Keith