file copying problems

[yonnym]

Hey people thanks for the all the help you give,
ii have a problem with my computer as when i try to copy a lot of
files at the same time it hangs and suddenly reboots , its a 3.0 intel
pentium 512mb ram.Its response time is very slow and while a file is
copying i cannot at the same time watch or listen to anything as the
sound is distorted, what could be the problem?.Thanks and please help

 

[mr x]

Hey people thanks for the all the help you give,
ii have a problem with my computer as when i try to copy a lot of
files at the same time it hangs and suddenly reboots , its a 3.0 intel
pentium 512mb ram.Its response time is very slow and while a file is
copying i cannot at the same time watch or listen to anything as the
sound is distorted, what could be the problem?.Thanks and please help

Copying big files uses lots of ram, 512mb isnt much thesedays and sad to
say intel pentium 3 processors are outdated to. If your board supports more
ram put in as much as you can afford.

Check out your task manager and see if theres something hogging all the ram


Or buy a better pc ;o)

 

[R. McCarty]

A disk drive is the slowest component in a PC compared to other
things such as RAM. Are you transferring files to some type of USB
external media ? or to and from internal (PATA/SATA) drives. For
the PC to halt or have difficulty doing other operations would seem
to indicate a high error count of a bus saturation of some kind.

You should probably start with examining the health of your drives by
doing a Read-Only or cursory Chkdsk. Otherwise, it is likely issues
that may need professional IT help to resolve.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Copying big files uses lots of ram, 512mb isnt much thesedays

This is *not* a one-size-fits-all situation. How much RAM someone
needs for good performance depends on what apps he runs. Unless you
run particularly memory intensive programs (doing things like video
editing or editing large photographic images) 512MB is sufficient for
almost everyone. For many people, even 256-384 is enough.

and sad to
say intel pentium 3 processors are outdated to.

"Outdated" is a meaningless word here. Yes, there are faster
processors, and yes there are slower processors. Unless you already
have the world's fastest computer, you can always get more speed by
spending more money. That doesn't mean that everyone needs that extra
speed or that that extra speed is worth the extra expense to everyone.

If your board supports more
ram put in as much as you can afford.

Sorry, but that is terrible advice. Despite what many people believe,
it is *not* true that more RAM is automatically better. It is true
only up to a point, and for most people, 512MB is already at or above
that point.

If you are currently using the page file significantly, more memory
will decrease or eliminate that usage, and improve your performance.
If you are not using the page file significantly, more memory will do
nothing for you. Go to
http://billsway.com/notes_public/winxp_tweaks/ and download
WinXP-2K_Pagefile.zip and monitor your pagefile usage. That should
give you a good idea of whether more memory can help, and if so, how
much more.

Check out your task manager and see if theres something hogging all the ram

It's highly unlikely that his problem has anything to do with RAM.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hey people thanks for the all the help you give,
ii have a problem with my computer as when i try to copy a lot of
files at the same time it hangs and suddenly reboots

Spontaneous rebooting is most often a problem with your hardware, not
with Windows. You are presumably blue-screening, and you are set to
reboot whenever that happens. Right-click My Computer, and choose
Properties. On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and
Recovery. Under System failure, uncheck the box "Automatically
restart.

Now when the problem occurs again, instead of restarting, you will get
the blue screen with diagnostic information. Post back with those
details for more help.

its a 3.0 intel
pentium 512mb ram.Its response time is very slow and while a file is
copying i cannot at the same time watch or listen to anything as the
sound is distorted, what could be the problem?.Thanks and please help

Slow response time may be related or it may be another issue entirely.
If I were in your shoes, I would work on the rebooting (probable
hardware) issue first, and then after that's resolved, see if the
slowness still remains. If it does, then come back here for more help.