I decided to fry my motherboard (!) and so needed a new one. I installed an ASROCK P4i65G with my original Radeon 9550 card. I added an extra 512MB ram, and have installed all the latest drivers/updates etc etc after re-installing XP with SP2.
Has anyone any ideas why it is running soooooo slowly? It was fine with my older mobo.
Thanks for any help!
2007-02-14 03:27:20 · 3 answers · asked by Dave B 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
On boot-up, go to options in the BIOS (usually by pressing Delete or something) and check that your chip settings are set to optimum performance.
If that doesn't work, go to Run on the start menu, type 'msconfig' in the box and look at what starts up when Windows loads. You might find you are running loads of useless programmes (e.g. Realplayer).
2007-02-14 03:32:12 · answer #1 · answered by gav 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it depends on how you managed to fry the old mobo, and if you put your old processor onto the new board.
If you were overclocking your processor when the board died, it may have wrecked your chip. Or if you were overclocking the vid card, then it might be the chip on the vid card.
It also depends on what games you are talking about and what you mean by 'slow'. Is it slow framerate? Does it stay consistant or vary based on what it is doing? Have you tried turning off different video options to see if it gets better? Loaded the newest version of Direct X, etc?
2007-02-14 04:04:15 · answer #2 · answered by joemammysbigguns 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you know that today games require quite high computer spesification even 1Gb for the ram so make sure that the game meets the system requirement and dont set the display too high specially the antialiasing, v sync if not mistaken, hopefully it will run faster and the grafic of your game will not statisfy your eyes.
2007-02-14 03:57:31 · answer #3 · answered by Henry W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋