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    D820 aggravation

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by redneck6497, Apr 30, 2006.

  1. redneck6497

    redneck6497 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Okay. I found a limitation of the D820 (or what I think might be one). I hit the D820 pretty hard by using photoshop CS2 to convert some raw files to .JPGs. While it was doing that, and getting hit pretty hard by reading the PCMCIA slot, converting the files to .jpgs and Writing them out to the hard drive, the mouse kept hanging up and periodically the system would stop responding to requests. It appeared it was running at the full 1.87ghz. Looked like I might have taxed it too much......Part of the time the mouse was running in slow motion also....

    ANY IDEAS????
     
    redneck6497, Apr 30, 2006
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    esoterica Notebook Consultant

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    I use Photo Shop 7 on mine just fine, with everything already built in and on board though I haven't had any reasons to use my PCMCIA slot.

    Your not being very specific, so I have to guess, is the PCMCIA device your trying to use a flash drive that contains the photo's your editing?

    If so I'd copy the photos over onto the local hard drive, work on them there, then copy them back once finished to the PCMCIA Flash Drive.
     
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    redneck6497 Notebook Enthusiast

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    sorry I wasn't clear.....I AM trying to get pics off the PCMCIA slot via a cardreader. It seems whenever I use the cardreader my mouse goes into slow motion. I just tried to copy the files, and it did the same thing. The photoshop stuff probably works ok when trying to use the hard drive only.
     
    redneck6497, Apr 30, 2006
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    etccu1987 Notebook Geek

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    how much RAM do you have...if you only have 512 MB it may not be your processor...
     
    etccu1987, May 1, 2006
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    redneck6497 Notebook Enthusiast

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    It has 1gig of 667. it isn't really pegged on proc or memory. Not sure what is going on. Even my old 266 latitude doesn't do it. Might need a driver or something? At least its only the PCMCIA slot that is screwy. I love the PC otherwise.
     
    redneck6497, May 1, 2006
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    kompressor Newbie

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    I found a similar issue with all my notebooks, and the common factor was my PCMCIA CF card reader/CF Card. I found using an SD card doesn't have this issue, so I don't think it's just the D820 that has this problem.
     
    kompressor, May 2, 2006
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    redneck6497 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Agreed. It looks like I possibly narrowed it down also to my 2gig Sandisk Extreme III card. I'll continue to test and post what I find.
     
    redneck6497, May 2, 2006
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