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I have PC with configuration of Pantium D processor and 512 MB RAM.It was working fine until i replace 512 RAM with 1 GB RAM. Now mkv video or any high quality video is not playing continuously and CPU used is more than 90%. Even if i switched back to 512 MB RAM , Problem is there. Could anybody suggest anything please?
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Go into taskmanager and tell us the top-5-processes after sorting on CPU usage. Also tell about your graphic card.
Kees
System Idle Process
explorer.exe
firefox.exe
utorrent.exe
system
Graphics Memory is 96 MB.
about torrents. And it's a pity you didn't tell the percentage of each process. Normally, system idle (the system doing nothing) should be above 80% if all you do is looking video, I think. The video program shouldn't need more than 20%. But I don't see any video viewing program in the list.
Remarkable: with system idle on top of the list it's nearly impossible that the CPU is being used for more than 90% by other processes. That leaves less than 10% for system idle, and it's hardly imaginable it's on the top of the list than.
Maybe tell more?
What I should do:
- switch the hard disk you're reading the video-file from from DMA to PIO mode, reboot, switch it back again to DMA-mode and reboot again. That's done in Device Manager.
If that doesn't help:
- clean install of the OS
- try again to view a video you already have on your harddisk (copy it to USB-stick first, because the clean install will format the hard disk); disconnect from Internet until then
- stay away from torrents in the future
Kees
That makes me wonder if there is TORRENT software or other VIDEO PLAYERS that came from a TORRENT on this machine. I'm losing count how often a machine gets slammed when the owners begin to use torrents.
Bob
have been infected using UTORRENT, here is a great program for scanning and cleaning your computer
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Or if you discover you have a specific infection running on your computer, check out the forums on this (reputable) website:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum55.html
Sure enough they are running a torrent at the time of the troubles.
I'm unsure why you are replying to me about this.
Bob
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