PSCS performance help.

[RinkRat]

I recently replaced my old PC: P4 2.0GHz, 512MB Ram, 400MHz FSB

With a newer one: P4 2.8GHz, 1.2GB RAM, 800MHz FSB

I moved the Video Card & Hard Drives over from the old machine, and I am running W2K Pro SP4


It appears at random times, it is writing to the scratch disk, & takes FOREVER to give control back to me. (Approximately 1-2 minutes) The old machine never did that before.

I have the scratch disks set up the same, & I don't see anything alarming in the event viewer.

Anyone have any ideas on what else it might be?

[etaf]

I assume reloaded the OS software and drivers for motherboard etc, and did not just boot off the old harddrives.
what do you have running in the background/ at start up?

for win2K you need a program - I use this one
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
or msconfig
http://www.insideproject.com/showguide.cfm?guideid=31

are you connected to the web at the time?

[RinkRat]

I assume reloaded the OS software and drivers for motherboard etc, and did not just boot off the old harddrives.
what do you have running in the background/ at start up?

for win2K you need a program - I use this one
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
or msconfig
http://www.insideproject.com/showguide.cfm?guideid=31

are you connected to the web at the time?

Yes, I reloaded from scratch. (formatted C:)

Everything I had before is running:
Norton AV Corporate
MS Spyware
Zonealarm (free one)
Adobe Gamma Loader <--- only thing in the STARTUP group
CF Card reader driver
ATI Video Card SW
Cisco VPN Client
Printer SW (Canon i9900)

Yes, I am connected to the Web 24/7, but run Zonealarm, Norton AV, MS Spyware, Ad aware, & Spybot.

I also manually visit www.windowsupdate.com (http://www.windowsupdate.com) on a regular basis, to keep up with updates & fixes.

Thanks for the help.

[RinkRat]

FYI,

Got it figured out.

Needed to adjust Windows Paging File, & adjust Scratch Disk in PSCS.

[etaf]

oh - i thought you had these set these up.
I have the scratch disks set up the same

glad its sorted

[RinkRat]

oh - i thought you had these set these up.


glad its sorted

So did I. They were the same, but...

The problem basically was the Windows paging file was set to 256mb on a machine with 1.2GB. Once I figured that out, I just tweaked the Scratch disk settings until I was happy.