Re: Not Responding errors
- From: "Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 00:01:56 -0000
There seems to be only one obvious problem arising out of the
information you have provided. ImageDB.ddf is a colossal file and is
multi-fragmented. You need to defragment it. The sheer size is most
likely the problem but to make sure that the file is not in use I would
run Disk Defragmenter in Safe Mode. Running the programme more than
once, perhaps as many as three times to get a result. However, before
running Disk Defragmenter you should clean up the drive.
It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore
on your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb.
Right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System
Restore. Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time
find the slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and exit.
When you get to the Settings screen click on Apply and OK and exit.
Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to
Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also
select Start, All Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp,
More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System
Restore point. Run Disk Defragmenter.
Does ImageDB.ddf still appear in the Most fragmented files list?
I looked at the system requirements fpr ACDSee 4 and Adobe Photoshop 7.
They do seem to be quite modest. Adobe Photoshop 7 has been updated a
number of times. Do you have the latest update?
Do you leave the computer on 24/7?
Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? Can
you provide figures immediately after starting your computer anlso after
you have started your favourite photographic program and doing what ever
you do with program.
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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Curious1975 wrote:
HD Tune: IC35L030AVV207-0 Information
Firmware version : V21OA66A
Serial number : VNVA02G1C2A5AG
Capacity : 27.9 GB (~30.0 GB)
Buffer size : 1865216 bytes
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-0
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)
S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: yes
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : yes
Power-up in Standby : yes
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : no
Partition : 1
Drive letter :
Label :
Capacity : 31 MB
Usage : 0.00%
Type : unknown (DEh)
Bootable : No
Partition : 2
Drive letter : C:\
Label :
Capacity : 28576 MB
Usage : 63.58%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes
-----------------------------------------
HD Tune: IC35L030AVV207-0 Health
ID Current Worst ThresholdData
Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 100 100 60 0
Ok
(02) Throughput Performance 100 100 50 0
Ok
(03) Spin Up Time 97 97 24 10813614
Ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 98 98 0 8406
Ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 5 0
Ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 100 100 67 0
Ok
(08) Seek Time Performance 100 100 20 0
Ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 99 99 0 7337
Ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 60 0
Ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 98 98 0 8399
Ok
(C0) Power Off Retract Count 93 93 50 8406
Ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 93 93 50 8406
Ok
(C2) Temperature 183 183 0 917534
Ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 100 100 0 0
Ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 0
Ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 100 0 0
Ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0
Ok
Power On Time : 7337
Health Status : Ok
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HD Tune: IC35L030AVV207-0 Error Scan
Scanned data : 28598 MB
Damaged Blocks : 0.0 %
Elapsed Time : 27:10
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disk Defrag:
Volume (C:)
Volume size = 27.91 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 17.69 GB
Free space = 10.21 GB
Percent free space = 36 %
Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 14 %
File fragmentation = 27 %
Free space fragmentation = 1 %
File fragmentation
Total files = 91,857
Average file size = 382 KB
Total fragmented files = 4,867
Total excess fragments = 20,322
Average fragments per file = 1.22
Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 1.13 GB
Total fragments = 5
Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 6,667
Fragmented folders = 114
Excess folder fragments = 337
Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 182 MB
MFT record count = 98,832
Percent MFT in use = 52 %
Total MFT fragments = 3
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Fragments File Size Most fragmented files
1,442 1.29 GB \Documents and
Settings\Amy\Application Data\ACD Systems\ACDSee\ImageDB.ddf
386 25 MB \Documents and
Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\0S7HMEX3\QuickTime[1].msi 351 49 MB
\Documents and Settings\Amy\My Documents\New Folder (2)\Doc
4\Friends\Video & Audio\2006_6_V V on Ryan S.WAV 343 24
MB \Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local
Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\0XQN096B\iTunes[1].msi
332 42 MB \System Volume
Information\catalog.wci\00010008.ci 276 17 MB
\System Volume
Information\_restore{B37680B2-BA0A-4E5D-BF30-83E44C588624}\RP528\A0336275.exe
267 17 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{B37680B2-BA0A-4E5D-BF30-83E44C588624}\RP520\A0333512.exe
256 16 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{B37680B2-BA0A-4E5D-BF30-83E44C588624}\RP513\A0331038.exe
197 13 MB
\WINDOWS\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\System.Windows.Forms\b2484bca73ced66d3bbb28a4d9a4ece0\System.Windows.Forms.ni.dll
186 12 MB
\WINDOWS\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\System.Web\7e4c1f537352b8943d408f29728e8da0\System.Web.ni.dll
183 12 MB \Documents and
Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\NK6YQWZJ\AppleMobileDeviceSupport[1].msi 169
11 MB \Documents and Settings\Amy\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\wmdbexport.xml 160
10 MB
\WINDOWS\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\System.Design\e7422db2a04a6745483658ccddf1bd02\System.Design.ni.dll
146 23 MB \Documents and Settings\Amy\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Wallpaper1.bmp 116 8
MB \Documents and Settings\Amy\Local Settings\Application
Data\Apple
Computer\QuickTime\downloads\11\03\b3201cb8-d5ad5827-ddee54c4-5f28ca37.qtch
91 6 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{B37680B2-BA0A-4E5D-BF30-83E44C588624}\RP520\A0333502.dll
89 354 KB
\WINDOWS\Temp\SRTSP_MSI_U_(1)10.1.5.4.log 80 5 MB
\Documents and Settings\Amy\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Media Player\CurrentDatabase_219.wmdb 79
5 MB
\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Windows.Forms\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Windows.Forms.dll
79 5 MB \Program Files\Common Files\Symantec
Shared\SymcData\ids-diskless\BinHub\sigs.dat 77 5 MB
\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Design\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Design.dll
77 5 MB \Program Files\Common Files\Symantec
Shared\VirusDefs\tmp194.tmp\ESRDEF.BIN 76 9 MB
\Documents and Settings\Amy\Application
Data\Adobe\Photoshop\7.0\Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Settings\Brushes.psp 61
458 KB \Documents and Settings\Amy\My Documents\New
Folder\Candid Personal\Pics\Thumbs.db 59 5 MB
\WINDOWS\Temp\slu4728.tmp 59 5 MB \Program
Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\VirusDefs\BinHub\virscan9.dat
56 5 MB \Program Files\Common Files\Symantec
Shared\VirusDefs\tmp4692.tmp\VIRSCAN5.DAT
53 5 MB \Program Files\Common Files\Symantec
Shared\VirusDefs\BinHub\virscan5.dat
53 1 MB \Documents and Settings\Amy\My
Documents\My Pictures\Christopher & Julianna\July to Dec
2006\Thumbs.db 52 3 MB \Documents and
Settings\Amy\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\u9hgz1o9.default\urlclassifier2.sqlite
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I ran a defrag afterwards (which I do do periodically anyway).
I hope all of that makes sense to you. Let me know if you can discern
anything from it which might be causing my problem.
Thanks.
"Gerry" wrote:
Try running HD Tune(freeware).
Download and run it and see what it turns up.
http://www.hdtune.com/
Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
and copy into a further message.
Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy
to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Also do a full
surface scan with HD Tune.
Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as
it is more informative.
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Curious1975 wrote:
Sorry for my poor choice in technological terminology as I was just
using CPU to describe the tower. Now I'm all worried that my hard
dive is going to fail me (I'm in the process of backing up files as
I type this though). When I added the memory it was the first time
ever in over four years that I had opened up the computer. Lots of
dust in there. I cleared it out with Air Duster and then added the
memory. I will say that the grinding noise seems to happen when I
visit certain websites. Don't know if this is indicative of
anything but thought I'd throw it out there.
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 09:33:00 -0800, Curious1975
<Curious1975@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's taken me 3 months, but I finally got around to purchasing
additional memory in the hopes that it would easily solve my
problems. I bought 512mb and I now have 768mb and the "not
responding" errors have been reduced dramatically. For some
reason I forgot I only had 256mb already but thought I had 512mb
so I would have purchased two 512mb's had I realized. Maybe if I
had the "not responding" would have been eliminated. Either way,
I'm able to naviagte my computer much faster.
Of course, it's not without side-effects. Now, I occasionally
get a grinding sound from within the CPU.
The CPU is your processor, an electronic chip, and has no moving
parts. Wherever your grinding sound is coming from, it's *not* the
CPU.
I can't see how the installation of
additional memory and the grinding aren't related as it only
started happening after I installed it. Any ideas as to why or
what I can do? Is it damaging anything?
It could be just a coincidence. It's hard to tell what the sound is
without hearing it, but yes, it could be damaging. It's almost
certainly either the hard drive or a fan.
If the fan fails, overheating can be the result, and that can
damage many things.
If it's the hard drive, it may be about to fail. Be sure you have
an up-to-date backup of anything you can't afford to lose, just in
case.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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