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XXCopy with A7N8X-E, conflict?
Has anyone used XXCopy with the A7N8X-E in an IDE drive? If you have, have
you noticed any unusual slowness in backing up or otherwise copying a bunch of files, especially small ones? If you have, PLEASE let me hear from you. I am having a problem that is driving me bats, and your input will help me determine whether it is an inherent conflict between XXCopy and the A7N8X-E, or -- I hope --some other thing that hopefully can be fixed. In my experience with XXCopy, average size files, as say in a backup, should copy at from 500 MB/min, up. If you want to read further, here is the story: ASUS A7N8X-E DELUXE Rev.2 Barton XP2600 Mobile 225 MHz Kingmax MPXC22D PC-3200 2x512MB Hitachi 250GB, 7200RPM IDE, FAT32 RAPTOR 74GB SATA, FAT32 WinXP PRO, SP1 With XXCopy and XP installed on the IDE drive, copying small files is extremely slow, and the Task Manager shows the CPU at 100% load, with CSRSS.EXE using at least 95% of it. The HD behaves normally in other situations, including copying files with ZTree. I also did a fresh install of XP on a newly formatted IDE drive, with nothing else on it other than XXCopy and the files to copy, and it behaved exactly the same way. Specifically, it took 74.6 sec. to copy 1000 files of 252 KB total. XP and XXCopy installed on the SATA drive of the same machine, copied the same files in 0.84 seconds. I then hooked up the same barebones IDE drive to a different machine (Soyo 400 Dragon and Athlon 1400), and the same files copied in under 2 sec. So it would seem that the problem is specifically in the interface between XXCopy if installed on an IDE drive, and the A7N8X-E MOBO. Also, someone pointed me to a Microsoft Article, ID 555021, which says: "CSRSS.EXE uses 100% of the CPU when you right-click an item in Win Explorer or on the desktop - Cause: your user profile is corrupt". This is just what happens here, although the cause must be different (it does not happen if I click as above, and the profile isn't likely to be corrupt on the new install). I'm trying to find out what causes CSRSS do to use all of the CPU, and what to do about it, but got nowhere yet. I don't know the "insides" of XXCopy or the pertinent aspects of Windows, so I don't have a take on what might be causing this problem, or how to go about fixing it, and would very much appreciate your input. Jim |
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