Hardware interrupt overload with DVD-Rom

Hi All,
for some reason my laptop's processor goes into overdrive when I
use the DVD Rom Drive.

I have uninstalled all the software that I can think of that would
have a reason to utilise the DVD Rom drive such as Burning Software,
DVD Viewing, Music playing, etc but whenever the drive is used the
CPU load goes to 100% and the hardware interrupts are the main user.

I am using WinXP Home SP3 on a Compaq Presario V5000 series. 512Mb
of RAM and the HDD has 30 Gig free.
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Regards,
Raymond

"Raymond" <rassilonoz-news@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:gc1tqi$ar4$1@news-01.bur.connect.com.au...
> Hi All,
> for some reason my laptop's processor goes into overdrive when I
> use the DVD Rom Drive.
>
> I have uninstalled all the software that I can think of that would
> have a reason to utilise the DVD Rom drive such as Burning Software,
> DVD Viewing, Music playing, etc but whenever the drive is used the
> CPU load goes to 100% and the hardware interrupts are the main user.
>
> I am using WinXP Home SP3 on a Compaq Presario V5000 series. 512Mb
> of RAM and the HDD has 30 Gig free.
>

You should be aware that when you insert a DVD disc, windows will import
thumbnails of any media files ready for when you select the folder display
options that include the thumbnails his makes the DVD drive appear to be
very busy for a few minutes (which it is of course). I don't know if it
possible to disable this behaviour.

Hi M.I.5¾,

M.I.5¾ wrote:
> "Raymond" <rassilonoz-news@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:gc1tqi$ar4$1@news-01.bur.connect.com.au...
>> Hi All,
>> for some reason my laptop's processor goes into overdrive when I
>> use the DVD Rom Drive.
>>
>> I have uninstalled all the software that I can think of that would
>> have a reason to utilise the DVD Rom drive such as Burning Software,
>> DVD Viewing, Music playing, etc but whenever the drive is used the
>> CPU load goes to 100% and the hardware interrupts are the main user.
>>
>> I am using WinXP Home SP3 on a Compaq Presario V5000 series. 512Mb
>> of RAM and the HDD has 30 Gig free.
>>
>
> You should be aware that when you insert a DVD disc, windows will import
> thumbnails of any media files ready for when you select the folder display
> options that include the thumbnails his makes the DVD drive appear to be
> very busy for a few minutes (which it is of course). I don't know if it
> possible to disable this behaviour.
>
>
Thanks for the info (I found this out once when I had 2000+
pictures on a DVD and selected the option to view as thumbnails
<sigh>) but this isn't the case for this problem, if I view a movie,
listen/rip to music or just do a disc scan, the CPU Load goes to
100% and the Kernel times (Red part of the graph?) is also there..

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Regards,
Raymond