Excessive hard disk activity

[aportman]

Hi all,

I have 98.08 insatlled and working for the most part, but what I notice that when I restart the computer and GBPVR for that matter I get disk activity for many minutes. During that time GBPVR doesn't respond at all. Is this normal for what other people see, or is there some configuration that I missed.

My system is
A64 3000
Foxconn nforce6100
1gb corsair 3200 dual channel
maxtor 40gb main
wd 160gb media drive

TIA
Ports

[-stattik-]

How is your drive fragmentation? Are the drives set to DMA? What apps are set to launch at start up? how long has Windows been installed? Could just be a build-up of Windows "plaque."

[Brian_W]

If it is a lot of disk activity right after you launch GBPVR, it is most likely loading all of your EPG data into memory from the database. Do you have a lot of channels? The more channels you have, the longer this will take.

Brian

[aportman]

It was a fresh install of windows just before I added GVPVR. DMA-yes. Very few programs even installed at this point.

Good point about the extra channels. I have basic cable, but I notice all the pay-per view and premium channels in the epg. I'll go ahead and delete those tonight.

Thanks