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Hi there

Anybody have any idea as to why the following happens :

When typing in a new document, or opening an existing one from mail, all is well. However, when you click on Save As, and try to browse to another directory, then it takes ages to do something, and the computer seems to be frozen up. After 1 to 3 minutes, you can browse again, until you double-click on another subdirectory, then then whole thing seems to "hang" again for a while...

This is on Windows XP Pro, SP2, and Office2003.

A reboot sometimes helped.

This is getting irritating.

Regards

TU
 
I have similar problem on Windows 2000 those days, except that it happens only when browsing network shares!

the interesting thing is that if I map that same network share then it works fine ...

I don't have any antivirus crap running so I am not sure what is the problem
 
Mapped Drives?

If you have any mapped network drives that are disconnected and you use a open, save, save as dialog, it seems to freeze for a bit then you wait and it wakes up.

Either connecting the drive, or removing the mapping will solve the problem.
It's got nothing to do with Antivirus.
 
:o now i feel stuuuuupid

Crash said:
Either connecting the drive, or removing the mapping will solve the problem.
It's got nothing to do with Antivirus.
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Bingo.. Crash gets 100% for this one...

our printserver recently borked, so I just disconnected it, but the network drive was still mapped to it (it's a SME server) and that's why we've had problems.

Phew, for a moment I thought I've got a virus infestation on my hands here... :D
 
Ok sorry to hijack ur topic but i also need help and i hope its window related

Everytime i try to install something on my computer it will install like 5% and then i get an error i cant install and sometimes i get a blue screen with an error IRQ_NOT_LESS_NOR_EQUAL so i did a format windows copies the files and then when the actual installation starts i get the same error only 5 % and then a stop message.

My pc isnt even a month old my new 1 but some ppl suggested its my ram but i just want to make sure before i take the ram back
 
The_Unbeliever said:
:o now i feel stuuuuupid



Bingo.. Crash gets 100% for this one...

our printserver recently borked, so I just disconnected it, but the network drive was still mapped to it (it's a SME server) and that's why we've had problems.

Phew, for a moment I thought I've got a virus infestation on my hands here... :D
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Yep, full marks to Crash. And the usual middle finger to M$ for completely failing to ever sort this out on ANY windoze product or SP.
 
Franna said:
DS - My bet is the RAM is faulty.

Download the latest (free) memory tester from:
http://www.memtest.org/
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Not sure if you built the PC yourself or not. If not, take it back as is - do not open or fiddle!
If you did, is there more than one ram module? If so, remove 1 and try again. If still a problem, swop the 1st RAM with the second and try again. If either of these works, the RAM that is not in the pc is faulty. If both attempts fail, either both RAMs are faulty (unlikely?), or it is not the RAM.

EDIT: On that topic, I always prefer buying one big RAM module, rather than two smaller ones - leaves a slot for later upgrade.
 
Moederloos said:
EDIT: On that topic, I always prefer buying one big RAM module, rather than two smaller ones - leaves a slot for later upgrade.
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that's why you buy a mobo with 4 slots ...
 
Crash said:
If you have any mapped network drives that are disconnected and you use a open, save, save as dialog, it seems to freeze for a bit then you wait and it wakes up.

Either connecting the drive, or removing the mapping will solve the problem.
It's got nothing to do with Antivirus.
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this doesn't solve my problem though :) I don't have disconnected mapped drives, in fact I started using mapped drives only after I discoveerd that the problem doesn't occur when you work with them, prior that I had the hanging problem and no mapped drives at all, neither connected nor disconnected
 
I got 4 ram slots and build it myself and it worked for about 15-20 days and this w/e it started giving seet. I had to buy 2 512 modules cos the shop didnt have stock of any 1gb modules and i wanted my new pc :D
 
not a good plan to have done that

because i think 1 gig and 512 meg stick run on different latency times which means you'll only be able to put 512 meg sticks in their from now on
 
Ok but it was my one ram module i removed it and installed winxp and now everything works fine.

Killa in there do u mean in the motherboard or only that one slot ? ?
 
The_Unbeliever said:
...When typing in a new document, or opening an existing one from mail, all is well. However, when you click on Save As, and try to browse to another directory, then it takes ages to do something, and the computer seems to be frozen up. After 1 to 3 minutes, you can browse again, until you double-click on another subdirectory, then then whole thing seems to "hang" again for a while...
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We get this a lot when the domain server was buggering up.
So - if you logon to the pc using a specific domain - then that could be the problem.
Check the machine that is the domain server's event log for hard disk errors and other stuff.
What happens is that you request access to an object - the domain server is asked - well - whi is this person requesting access ? - the domain server is supposed to answer immediately and identify you - but for some reason it is delayed...find out what the delay is.

To proove this, log onto the local computer, and not the domain. i.e. Logon and set the domain to the computer name. If you can access directories and local stuff quick and easy, then it's the domain controller.

Otherwise - check your event log for wierd stuff - specifically hard disk errors.

DigitalSoldier said:
Ok sorry to hijack ur topic but i also need help and i hope its window related

Everytime i try to install something on my computer it will install like 5% and then i get an error i cant install and sometimes i get a blue screen with an error IRQ_NOT_LESS_NOR_EQUAL so i did a format windows copies the files and then when the actual installation starts i get the same error only 5 % and then a stop message...
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Yup - test the ram - it's probablee something else though - ram usually crashes dead and then won't POST [Power On Self Test] beeping 4 or 5 times without actually booting and stuff.

IRC = Something to do with an Interrupt Request check that does not return properly - the catch is that all your PC's prepirials [sp] run on interrupt requests, so it could be any damn PCI Card / drive / mouse / keyboard / whatever .. not just the memory. Even the dang CPU.

If you've built the machine, try to work a methodology that makes it crash [like run install - yours seems to crash at 5%] then remove all the cards from it [unless you have a screen card - keep that - otherwise there's nothing to see], unplug the mouse, and run it on one memory chip and see if it is stable.

Then add one device at a time until the problem returns. If the problem does not return then it could have been a bad connection.

I had this with a faulty ethernet network card.

Good wuck :p!
 
hehe tx stoke but it was the ram when i removed it my windows installed and now i can install games yet but its not gonne be any fun playing games with only 512ram so tommorow im going back to the pc shop and getting new ram.

Btw i did try to install windows again before i removed the ram just to make sure and it gave the same error and then i removed the ram.
 
ok shot!

I did a test with the program mentioned above with the 512 i left in my pc and no errors and just to make sure the one i removed i did a test with and on the first 3 tests i already had 10 000 errors on the ram
 
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