Amd dual core problems, tried everything..

[Duff]

hello i have been reading all the forum posts here and nothing seems to work for me im getting kinda annoyed 🙁

my system >

amd xp 64 x2 3800
dfi lanparty nf4ultra - D
250gb sata maxtor 16mb cache
gigabyte 256m 6800
550watt antec truepower
x2 512 sticks corsair 3200
win xp 64

problem > in games and sometimes on desktop the computer will basicly chug at random times sometimes its fine sometimes its dead..

things i have tried:

new cpu drivers from amd
many differnt video card drivers
Runfirst.exe
new bios drivers that specified a dual core fix
formated numours times tried normal xp and xp 64

i have tried pretty much everything i can think of and what i have read on these forums nothing works 🙁...

im thinkking of burning this amd chip and buying a single core :|

any help would be nice 🙂 thanks in advance.

 

[Matthias99]

I'm not quite sure what your problem is. Are you having a performance issue, or the system is unstable/crashing?

Did you try stability testing with memtest86 and prime95?

 

[Markbnj]

Sounds like exactly what the XP SP2 hotfix is targetted at. There are links in this thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1707814&enterthread=y

 

[Markfw]

Did you do a fresh format install ? If not thats the place to start. Could also be virus/spyware.... More information is needed

Oh, and before you burn your chip, let me know, I'll give you a few bucks for it.

 

[Duff]

hey thanks for the replies, im on windows xp 64 and the sp2 hotfix doesnt work for xp 64 (doesnt install), i tried a fresh install of normal windows and the hotfix still didnt work, and ya i have tried numours fresh formats / installs, im beginning to think its the gfx card because i whent into a game it was running awesome if not better, then i changed a gfx setting IN GAME and it died in the ass...

its just a performance issue inside of games and out like the computer is way lower than wat it is..

 

[Duff]

bump

 

[LED]

It could very well be the onboard sound slugging the performance as they eat CPU usage so look into that area and if you have a PCI SC install it and try.

 

[Gadzookie]

i would revert back to windows 32 do you have to use 64 ?

 

[Vegito]

sounds like you should have gotten a dell...

try to isolate the problem..

I know bad hdd can cause sluggish windows performance.. ie bad cluster, windows keep trying to reread it..

check your event view to see if anything is failing or not start properly. Some times it'll tell you if it's having problem with ide port or etc.

I would try to run hdd diag to see if theres any bad cluster, or try a different HDD.

Off your motherboard.. disable all the stuff you dont need, ie if your not using raid, or additional sata ports, 2nd ethernets (dont remember if that ultra has dual), serial, parallel, and as suggested, try to disable sound and do a fresh format.

 

[Woofmeister]

It might be software running in the background. I would try shutting down all non-essential processes (not just applications) and seeing if that helps. I had a similiar problem myself and managed to isolate ASUS AI Booster as the cause. So, something that should be pretty benign and is not even a resource hog might be the culprit.