overworked processor

[gt4mainman]

hi guys,this is my first post and im pretty sure its not been covered already:) i am trying to bacup dvd's to my HD using dvd shrink 3 beta 5 but my laptop shutsdown halfway though after whiring away like ive just asked it to run the world :rolleyes: its a pentium 4 2.6 with 5oo odd ram etc etc so should be more than up to the job.it has managed to complete a few discs before but it really doesnt like it.ive tried shutting down as many progs as possible before and not using it whilst its doing its thing but 9 times out of 10 it will suddenly power down with no warning.
is there a different program i could use or a less labour intensive program?? i think the newer dvd shrink had an option to not be priority task but i kept getting copy protection errors on that version so tried the older one as suggested on here.
any ideas folks?? keep em simple cause i aint no pc genius:cool: :(
cheers
stew
uk

[avih]

hi and welcome to the forum.

as much as you are new here, that's not an excuse to say "i'm sure it has been covered". you had 5 days to use the search button and read the forum rules. your question belongs in the hardware forum, as it's probably a hardware issue.

to change the priority of tasks you can use the task manager (win2k or winxp, not sure about win 9x). there are also utilities to do that.

you can also read the faq at the hardware forum, you might find some helpfull info there.

avih.

[gt4mainman]

i have tried it using task manager setting dvd shrink to the lowest priority and i still have the same problem :(

[avih]

sorry for not reading your 1st post correctly. i now see that u said that you think it has NOT been covered before.

my apologies.

avih.

ps. this thread is now continues on the hardware forum here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77080)

[ammck55]

As avih has stated, this is most likely a hardware problem, and with another request running in the Hardware forum that looks exactly like this one, we'll now close this thread in Newbies. Avih's redirect will help visitors to this forum contribute in the other.

Thread closed.

ammck55