Prolonged Loading Times

Lollies

Lollies

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Recently one of my hard drives underwent a bizarre process where it decided to revert back to RAW. After 4 days of problem solving I finally fixed the drives but also purchased 2 new/better drives. I run a RAID-0 Striping set-up.

I have done every trick in the book to decrease the excess fluff from running in the background of windows vista but I still get delayed loading times.

If I right click to attempt to create a folder or something such as that, the circular loading icon appears as it takes 2-3 seconds to open. And it does this with most everything, some things take longer than others.

I only ask what could be the cause of this because this never happened with my former drives or vista for the past year, it only started after the one hard drive crashed and it has done it since the fix and since the installation of the new drives. Everything use to open practically instantaneously.

Specs:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU X9650 @ 3.00GHz
Memory: 8.00 GB Kingston
System Type: 64-bit Operationg System

My only assumption is that there is something trying to load but I have tried disabling everything and it still does the same thing.

Sorry if anything is unclear, but any help would be much appreciated!
-Lollies :rolleyes:
 

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Hey there Lollies

I don't have any direct answer to your problem, but I do have some thoughts.

I have a harddisk I use for Vista, and two 1.5Tb harddisks I use for data. To begin with I thought about running this two disks in raid 0, but after reading some info on the net somewhere I decided against it. The reason for this was that if for any reason one harddisk failed I would lose all the data on both disks.

In your post it seems that you did not lose all your data. But still maybe you should backup your data now, and try and format both your disks and start again. Just a thought.

And a last thing Raid 0 really is not a good setup, cos there is no recovery disk like in Raid 1.
 
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Dane said:
Hey there Lollies

I don't have any direct answer to your problem, but I do have some thoughts.

I have a harddisk I use for Vista, and two 1.5Tb harddisks I use for data. To begin with I thought about running this two disks in raid 0, but after reading some info on the net somewhere I decided against it. The reason for this was that if for any reason one harddisk failed I would lose all the data on both disks.

In your post it seems that you did not lose all your data. But still maybe you should backup your data now, and try and format both your disks and start again. Just a thought.

And a last thing Raid 0 really is not a good setup, cos there is no recovery disk like in Raid 1.
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Yeah I am aware of some of that information. I had a hard time choosing when i built the pc, figured RAID-0 would be good for the "all or nothing" attitude I had when building it but recently I have wondered.

I've messed around some more but still not luck as to a direct solution. It is not like stuff does not work it's just all delayed which is quite annoying.

And yeah I was lucky enough to have all my data, from that experience I learned to back-up on a regular basis. The hard drive just unformatted itself so the data was still there, why it unformatted myself I dunno, and I'm not sure I will ever know.

Sorry for the grammatical errors!
 

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Lollies said:
Recently one of my hard drives underwent a bizarre process where it decided to revert back to RAW. After 4 days of problem solving I finally fixed the drives but also purchased 2 new/better drives. I run a RAID-0 Striping set-up.

I have done every trick in the book to decrease the excess fluff from running in the background of windows vista but I still get delayed loading times.

If I right click to attempt to create a folder or something such as that, the circular loading icon appears as it takes 2-3 seconds to open. And it does this with most everything, some things take longer than others.

I only ask what could be the cause of this because this never happened with my former drives or vista for the past year, it only started after the one hard drive crashed and it has done it since the fix and since the installation of the new drives. Everything use to open practically instantaneously.

Specs:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU X9650 @ 3.00GHz
Memory: 8.00 GB Kingston
System Type: 64-bit Operationg System

My only assumption is that there is something trying to load but I have tried disabling everything and it still does the same thing.

Sorry if anything is unclear, but any help would be much appreciated!
-Lollies :rolleyes:
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Does the same delay happen in safe mode?
 

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H2SO4 said:
Lollies said:
Recently one of my hard drives underwent a bizarre process where it decided to revert back to RAW. After 4 days of problem solving I finally fixed the drives but also purchased 2 new/better drives. I run a RAID-0 Striping set-up.

I have done every trick in the book to decrease the excess fluff from running in the background of windows vista but I still get delayed loading times.

If I right click to attempt to create a folder or something such as that, the circular loading icon appears as it takes 2-3 seconds to open. And it does this with most everything, some things take longer than others.

I only ask what could be the cause of this because this never happened with my former drives or vista for the past year, it only started after the one hard drive crashed and it has done it since the fix and since the installation of the new drives. Everything use to open practically instantaneously.

Specs:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU X9650 @ 3.00GHz
Memory: 8.00 GB Kingston
System Type: 64-bit Operationg System

My only assumption is that there is something trying to load but I have tried disabling everything and it still does the same thing.

Sorry if anything is unclear, but any help would be much appreciated!
-Lollies :rolleyes:
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Does the same delay happen in safe mode?
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Yes I still experience the delay while in safe mode. I have been working on it still here and there and have found nothing that fixes it but noticed that 1G of ram is being used while running no programs. :sa:
 

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Lollies said:
Yes I still experience the delay while in safe mode. I have been working on it still here and there and have found nothing that fixes it but noticed that 1G of ram is being used while running no programs. :sa:
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All RAM is always "used". Don't worry about that stuff, this isn't the 1980s with DOS-style memory management, thankfully :)

If memory was the problem, your symptom would be sporadic. Sometimes there would be sufficient memory, leading to normal response, and sometimes there wouldn't. Since you're reporting a consistent "2-3 second" delay, there is something else going on.

What other specific operations are always slower than normal?

Is browsing the same directory structure and making directories (MD command) fast when using the CMD prompt?

If you create a new user profile - just temporarily - and log in as that new user, does the same problem occur?

Is the level of processor utilisation sustained at 50% or above during those 2-3 seconds, or is the processor more or less idling after an initial spike at the start of that interval?
 

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H2SO4 said:
Lollies said:
Yes I still experience the delay while in safe mode. I have been working on it still here and there and have found nothing that fixes it but noticed that 1G of ram is being used while running no programs. :sa:
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All RAM is always "used". Don't worry about that stuff, this isn't the 1980s with DOS-style memory management, thankfully :)

If memory was the problem, your symptom would be sporadic. Sometimes there would be sufficient memory, leading to normal response, and sometimes there wouldn't. Since you're reporting a consistent "2-3 second" delay, there is something else going on.

What other specific operations are always slower than normal?

Is browsing the same directory structure and making directories (MD command) fast when using the CMD prompt?

If you create a new user profile - just temporarily - and log in as that new user, does the same problem occur?

Is the level of processor utilisation sustained at 50% or above during those 2-3 seconds, or is the processor more or less idling after an initial spike at the start of that interval?
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Making a new account still experiences the latency.

The processor utilization jumps to 30-50% during those 2-3 sec but then drops back down.

Browsing the same directory structure experiences no latency.

:eek:
 

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I still think a format of both disk is a god idea, cos in raid data is written on both disk at the same time... Maybe your index on the failed disk has suffered as a result of error. This could MAYBE result in longer read/write time.

Im not at all sure, but it's worth a try :)
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    mm-vision.dk (XForce)
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 965 3.20GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte EX58-UD4P
    Memory
    12Gb Kingston 1333MHz DDR3 CL9 DIMM (6 x 2Gb)
    Graphics Card(s)
    GForce GTX 295
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Viewsonic VX2260wm
    Screen Resolution
    1,920 x 1,080
    Hard Drives
    1 x WD VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150 GB 10000rpm
    2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB 7200rpm
    PSU
    Corsair TX750W
    Case
    SilverStone KL01B-W
    Cooling
    Stock
    Keyboard
    Roccat VALO
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Internet Speed
    12Mbit / 1Mbit
Lollies said:
Making a new account still experiences the latency.

The processor utilization jumps to 30-50% during those 2-3 sec but then drops back down.

Browsing the same directory structure experiences no latency.

:eek:
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An initial spike in processor utilisation is normal, but if it's sustained throughout 2 or 3 seconds that suggests a sort of tight looping that is frequently caused by the addition of non-default code; an Explorer "shell extension" for example.

Is the MD command also slow to create new directories from a CMD prompt? If not, that's another reason to suggest that an Explorer add-on is responsible (it doesn't affect CMD or the file system itself).

One deterministic way to troubleshoot this would be to download Process Monitor (www.microsoft.com/sysinternals) and to use that to view Explorer.exe activity during the 2-3sec delay period.
 

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Yeah gave it a go and still nothing. My old hard drives were not doing this when they were working. I dono, maybe they were partitioned differently or something. My pc was making a clicking sound when it shut down but now it does nothing such as that either, dono what that would be from.
 

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Lollies said:
Yeah gave it a go and still nothing. My old hard drives were not doing this when they were working. I dono, maybe they were partitioned differently or something. My pc was making a clicking sound when it shut down but now it does nothing such as that either, dono what that would be from.
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What did ProcMon say when you gave it a go?

Clicking noises from inside the case are either made by the PC speaker, which is usually unlikely, or by a component capable of mechanical movement: the fans, FDD, CD/DVD, or your HDD. The latter is the usual culprit and sometimes it means the disks in question are dying. Only sometimes though.
 

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