babaganoosh Posted February 18, 2008 Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 Well ive been using utorrent for a while now, and it constantly keeps freezing when i dl, im dling at speeds of 20kbs because anymore will cause the pc to freeze. It has happend with other torrent dling programs. I have tried:reinstalling windowsremove the cpu and dusting it outlubed the heatsink for maximum heat transferchecked all my cableswhen i clean the pc (physically) with a duster it seems to run a bit smoother and freezes less often, thus allowing me to kick it to tops speeds, but i have no idea what is going on, it keeps freezing on me now, and im not going to keep reinstalling windows/formatting and fiddling with my pc.i can dl at speeds of 400kbs with mozilla downloads and not freeze up.its realllly irritating me now when i come back 8 hours later from school to see that my pc has frozen 30 seconds after i left to school.anyone have any suggestions?i have mcafee antivirus and my windows firewall is shut off. I dont have any viruses because i have cheked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 18, 2008 Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 Probably your hard drives.Check the drive controllers in the device manager. Are they set to PIO or UDMA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babaganoosh Posted February 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 i do not know how to check that, and i cant seem to find device manager, i think its my hard drive as well. It isnt the best hard drive out there, its kind of old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 18, 2008 Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 Start > Run > devmgmt.mscThe primary and secondary IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers' properties are what you should be looking at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babaganoosh Posted February 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 thanks.primary IDE drive:i clicked properties and device 0 is PIO modedevice 1 is not applicableSecondary IDE Channel:device 0 is set at Ultra DMA mode 2device 1 is the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 18, 2008 Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 uninstall primary ide channel and reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babaganoosh Posted February 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 so, if i uninstall it, it will delete all the info on my pc? Or will it automatically reinstall when i reboot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted February 18, 2008 Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 When you reboot the OS will say "hey you're missing your IDE controllers, wiould you like to install them now?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babaganoosh Posted February 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 well, it didnt work, and my pc still continues to freeze up on me, any other suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 Backup and uninstall McAfee antivirus and retest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babaganoosh Posted February 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 well i uninstalled mcafee and my pc seems to be running fine, i think the scanner was the culprit, scanning every single bit of info comming and going. I seem to be able to DL at speeds of up to 200kb without freezing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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