On Friday 26 January 2007 16:55, Tyler wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > Is > > dma enabled for the hard drive? > > How do I check? what is this? >
Others have told you how to check for this. If dma is not enabled on your hard drive, it can explain why the computer is so slow! Please turn it on if possible. Check documentation if dma is possible for your drive. For most modern hard drives it is possible to enable dma. > > Is the problem occuring immediately after you reboot the machine? or is > > it occuring sometime after you reboot the machine? > > Sometime afterwards. ok. Now if you disable X completely, do you experience any random freezes? Basically I am trying to figure out if your problem is hardware or software related. If the random freezes take place even when you are not using X, I would check for badblocks, bad ram. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a spam free email account - Visit http://www.bluebottle.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
