Refresh or Warning????

thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

Yeah. Dunno the speed of the hard drive though. And as I suspected, Home Edition.. Those two things may be the reason of the "freeze"-ness. Also, try installing the latest Java Environment. It should help some on your surfing especially sites that uses Java.

Where does it exactly freeze anyway and under which browser? Or does it freeze on any application?

Jsy3k · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject:

manwithnoname · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject:

the one its set on now is 125 i think and i got it to stop by disconnecting one of my optical drives and disconnecting my floppy drive hope it stops freezing till i can save up enough to by a new power supply
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poiurewqfdsa · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject:

i have service pack 2 on it. Also, correction on what i said before. I have Windows "MEDIA CENTER EDITION" not Home edition. By freezing i mean when i go on the internet and want to go to another page, another website, submit posts, anything that requires "loading" i guess? the window will go blank and white and if i try to bring my task bar up (i have it hidden) it will show the task bar but it will freeze there and if i try to load any other applications, it would just show the window of the application but everything else is blank and white...sorry, i'm really bad at describing it, hope you all can understand

Oh yeah, it also happens when I stay on one web page for a while and want to either go to another page or minimize it.

poiurewqfdsa · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject:

anyone???

thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

Woops.

Well, I don't really know how well Media Centers behave. I think they're good from the reviews I've seen. So the only concern I have left would be your hard drive speed >.>;

poiurewqfdsa · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:42 am Post subject:

how do i find that out?

thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

I got about 5 ways of doing this and actually even more.. but I'll only mention the ones that you may be interested in.

1) Listen to the hard drive's sound. If it sounds loud when you're trying to load something an it would take you a really really long time to finish the task, then you probably got a 4200rpm hard drive. A little bit faster than that would be 5400rpm. A normal modern desktop speed-like would be a 7200rpm where you hardly notice any lag at your actions at all.

But that's really vague and you wouldn't be able to tell without more details, huh?

2) Right click on My Computer> Properties > Device Manager in the hardware section (forgot which tab it was in) > then try to find your drive. It should be in something like IDE-Primary. Write down the model number and then google on it or go to its manufacturer's site.

3) During boot, enter to your BIOS, write down the model number of your hard drive and the the last part of section 2).

4) Download Everest and install it. It gives you almost all the specs of your computer.

5) The speed may have been written somewhere in the manual..

The seek time is probably slow too. A 7ms seek time on a 5800rpm hard drive would do better in bench marks than on an 8.5ms 7200rpm hard drive.

poiurewqfdsa · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject:

so you think i'm having problems b/c of my hard drive speed? This laptop is so new too....

thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

Well, that's what I think the case is. It's not a matter whether the computer is new or not. I could have the fastest processor in the world but have the slowest hard drive or little RAM; my processor won't mean much of anything. Average consumers overlook these kind of things and this is how companies make their money.

Stores usually give you option to upgrade some stuff, but forcing you to add more to the payment, which most of the costumers try to stay away from. Most of the people don't really look into the other questionable specs of a computer. My parents, for example, think that the more space in the hard drive, the better. Speed of the hard drive never occured to their mind.

If bought from a local store, there are usually displays of computers for people to get their hands-on. If the system you bought is much slower from the one you've tried from the store, then you oughta complain to them why it is such the case. Otherwise, if you're not satisfied with the performance with the system from the store, you wouldn't have bought it in the first place, correct?

manwithnoname · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject:

lol i am going to reinstall my os cause no matter wat i remove from it it always does wat i stated before
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poiurewqfdsa · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject:

lol, you had me right on target. I only looked at the space of the hard drive and didn't look for the speed of it when i was shopping around. But, will it really affect your internet usage? and i don't really go crazy with it, at most i'll have two windows open and that's it, but it will still "freeze" like i described above

thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

Hard drive speed will affect anything, from clicking on the start button from your taskbar to opening My Computer or any applications because this is where your operating system [Windows XP Media Center Edition] is running.

manwithnoname · Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:54 am Post subject:

well it seemed for awhile that this error stopped but just lately it seems to have started again in where it freezes and then it comes back and it only does this on internet Exploring programs and while i view pictures on my computer. and i have noticed that the only thing that freezes is the screen and not the mouse.
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