Andrew Leigh
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2003
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- 431
Hi<br /><br />When doing resource intensive work like writing DV files to a DVD, writing CD's or working with digital media my processor maxes out. When performing Ctrl+Alt+Del, Task Manager then Performance the processor soon maxes to 100% and the Ram usage goes up to 750 Megs. Soon after this the over temperature alarm on the processor sounds. On an override the processor temp reaches 85 dec C which to me is excessive. I find this most odd as other PC's I have had never had this problem. Any ideas as to what is going on. By the way the PC is rock solid and never has any problems like lockups etc.<br /><br />Right now I have one application running, Internet Explorer with the iboats forum open, the Ram usage is 322Meg. Sounds crazy to me?<br /><br /><br />Mobo - Abit IC7-G<br />Processor - Intel Pentium P4 3.0 Gig running dual mode<br />Ram - Matched Kingston 2 x 512Megs PC3200<br />Display Card - MSI G4Ti 4200 TD64<br />DVD Writer - Sony DRU-510A<br />Monitor - Samsung SyncMaster 910T<br />Drives - Serial ATA, 2 x 160Gig. One drive is only for media storage and runs on IDE1 whilst the other drive is for the OS and runs on IDE0.<br /><br />OS - Windows 2000P SP4<br />Up to date Nortons<br />Up to date MS Spyware Checker<br /><br />The one thing I have noticed is that I cannot boot up when my HP Photosmart 7960 is connected to the USB port. Ther must be some form of conflict but I cannot find it. Once the PC is up and running I can plug it in and it is fine. The other point is that I have needed to "force" the IRQ on the PCI board I use for video editing as it has to have a priority of greater than 9. The only way to ensure this is by forcing the IRQ. This has been so on other PC's with not problems.<br /><br />Thanks<br />Andrew