Quote Originally Posted by gosh View Post
Regarding harddrive problems. Don't think this is the problem. Have tried three hardrives, all with 7200 rpm and one of those was a fast external with eSATA. of course you will not notice this very short freezing if just the processor spins, as long as the data is in the cpu for intel then it is fast. It is probably a communication thing.
I have no such problems compiling even with a Dothan 1.6GHz. The only times that I've seen the mouse skip under HD access is when XP decided to switch the HD from UDMA 5 to PIO mode. The other possibility is your compilation threads are set to absurdly high priority thereby starving the OS of CPU time to service interrupts.