Re: Help with diagnosis



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From: ahall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ahall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Posted At: Sunday, March 01, 2009 8:49 AM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Help with diagnosis
Subject: Help with diagnosis



A few days ago my XPS 600 XP-Pro machine
started becoming unresponsive.

It would freeze for 30 sec to 10 min, with
no mouse movement or window updating. Then
a quick update.

I had the task manager going, and the only apparent
culprit was the "System" process which was running
at a stated 20-25% of CPU (dual core with hyperthreading
so this was 80-100% of a real core).

I had installed a new printer driver (Brother 9840
network all-in-one color laser), so I uninstalled that,
but still had the problem.

Then I thought it might be SyncBack, as the insane slow
down happened last night right after a reboot when I launched
5 SyncBack jobs (making sure I had full backups in the case
of needing to reinstall Windows).

Any ideas at how to track down the problem? It might be happening
when there is a lot of file IO. The first night it happened I
had reorganized my photo directory, which means SyncBack had a
300gig job backing up to another computer on my network. After
that I was trying to get my new Windows Home Server to back up
this machine, so there was even more file IO.

I have TrendMicro Internet security that does a full scan every
night, and has a firewall. THere is also a router firewall between
my network and the outside.

Thanks,


--
Andrew Hall
(Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...)


I'm guessing you installed a second drive yourself? If so, did you go
into the BIOS and switch it from OFF to AUTO? If not, it will work, but
VERY slowly and will bog down the system.

I'd run HDTune and see how your IO is. I know there is a BIOS bug on
the XPS410/D9200 with regards to IO IF and only IF you have a low-end
nVidia card. Weird.

.

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