why does my comp do this

[bigjonnyauk]

my comp always seem to hang slightly

is this normal like say if i am doing something then slip a cd in it will hang until cd is ready to go then allow me to carry also when running something like ad aware ie goes relly slow

could it be my power supply strugling with power

have a crappy 450 qtec

tagan 480w will be here monday think ill see any difference

msi kt3 ultra 2 mobo running via 4.51 drivers <<could these be the prob
xp1700
cdrw
dvdrom
5 fans
harddrve
sblaster live 5.1
floppy
leadtek fx5900 with own power input aswell

you think the qtec is struggling or i have some other serious probs somewhere

looking at voltages on psu(and i aint got much of a clue here

they read

vcore 1.77
3.3v=3.37
5v=5.2
12v=12.06

cpu temp 46 system temp 38

thats a smuch info i know to give you for the time being

any kinda help would be appriciated

[Dorza]

How much RAM/Memory do u have. Mayb when a new task is initalized your memory is filling up and a bottle neck of information occures

[bigjonnyauk]

512 meg ddr ram 2700 differents sticks though

mmm come to think of it i bought some of them cheapy ram covers that surround the ram a while back to supposedly keep them cool i wonder if these could be having an effect

p.s i have ran the memory at 266 in line with fsb of processer and also at 333 both with same results

[LayZeh]

All computers hang shortly when you put a CD in the drive and Ad-aware is HDD intensive so that could be causing IE to run slowly.

[Steve]

My SCSI CD drive is a pain for this as the SCSI adapter hogs the whole PCI bus for the duration of CD detection.

[turkster]

Yeah the first thing Windows does when you put a CD in ist o try and mount the file system. Until this is done the PC oftens seems to lock up. If the CD is not readable it can be quite a problem. Also i find multisession writable disks often take quite a long time to mount.

IT seems to depend a bit on the drive. Eg. the workstation dells in my college lab aften hang for quite a while when trying to read a disk but on my home computer it is barelly noticable.

[mike_w]

It might be my imagination, but it didn't hang so much for me when I put all my hard drives on one IDE cable, and my optical drives on the Secondary.

[LayZeh]

You should never run CD-ROM drives and Hard Disks on the same IDE cable.