[Scgeeks] Re: RESOLVED Re: RAM voltages

[Indigo]

"Twayne" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message 
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> That's one of the bennies of groups; new stuff<g>!  Looked at SiSandra but 
> don't see a state-side source yet, but I didn't look real hard. More 
> interested in what it was.  Might be worth a trial download; thanks.
>

First link to come up on Google for me was 
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,4005-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html

> Well, basically, that would be any situation that makes the computer 
> discover that it doesn't have a bunch of stuff already in prefetch that it 
> needs and it has to pull some stuff in off the disk to use, and of course, 
> throw out some prefetches already there to make room for it. I'm making 
> this up, but say I was running a video intensive (math stuff) set of apps 
> and suddenly switched to something that used a huge database (arrays and 
> string manipulations).  If the prefetch was full of math oriented graphics 
> "stuff", it'd have to repopulate it for the new tasks that were requested. 
> Prefetch is sort of a "look ahead" or "predictive" buffer of stuff you 
> "might" use next.  I ain't no expert<g>.

I did google prefetch in the meantime, it's nothing sinister or resource 
intensive or anything like that. It simply keeps track of what files and 
dlls etc. you need to load when you start a specific app, it's a way of 
speeding up the loading of the app. Otherwise it does nothing.

>
> It would be normal for stuttering to occur when cpu usage was near being 
> maxxed out, BTW.  More RAM, faster hard drive, whatever; somehow the cpu 
> needs to have time to process everything.

Well, I got what I got, I'm not opening up this PC to fool with anything. 
It's a custom case HP Touchsmart, an "all in one" PC, only things not 
physically hard connected are the keyboard and mouse. I'll just deal with 
the CPU max-out stuttering, I guess. It's only happening lately because I'm 
trying to rip audio from a DVD, which is turning out to take at least 4 
steps before I can turn it into single song files. Have to do it by hand in 
the end, cutting the single monster MP3 file by listening for breaks in the 
concert audio. At least I managed to rip the video to a .wmv file(s) so I 
can re-record it to a DVD for my sister, she loves Pink Floyd/David Gilmore.

Everything I'm using is freeware, the key missing item was an app called 
"DVD43", which decodes the copy-protected DVD. Using that with AVS Video 
Converter 6.2 allows me to rip the video, which I then ripped to MP3 so I 
can listen to it on my MP3 player or burn it to an audio DVD disk to play in 
my car stereo. AVS puts a watermark on the video file, but it's pretty 
unobtrusive so far, it looks like it only shows up at the first and lasat 30 
seconds of the video (I haven't watched most of the WMV file yet to see if 
it shows up elsewhere).

>   Have you tried using the Mixer to turn off all the inputs and outputs 
> one at a time and as a group?  Probably, I seem to recall this is a long 
> time project you've been at.

To be honest, I don't even know where "the Mixer" is located ;-) And yes, 
I've been working on this audio problem for a while, about a month.