imported_Kiwi
Golden Member
I've had a faithful old system here, approaching its third birthday since it came home here, that has been a good old machine, seldom giving a lick of trouble. It's been the one I would go to for eMail, for internet surfing, general business-type stuff, and when it was newer, games. The FX 5200 video card that had been in it up through this past weekend was its third nVidia-based graphics adapter.
But I was thinking I was close to ready to assemble / reassemble my proposed HTPC system here. All of the parts were on hand, I thought, but I wanted a more up to date video card and didn't think that a "fast" card was as important as one with Dx9 and Video Out. So I had a used GF 4 Ti 4200 that still worked, and put it into the base internet machine.
Because it does the Internet thing, it has Ad-aware, and Spyware Blaster, and NAV, I keep the virus definitions up to date, and I run scans regularly, so there's no Malware, no Trojan, no Virii.
But literally as soon as the system adjusted itself for the graphics card change, it's had a massive and speedy drain on its System and User Resource pools. Once, it went from a fresh reboot to a freeze with zero resources, without much of any interaction from me, in under three hours. I can close everything except Explorer and Systray, and let it sit idle, and that way it gets maybe 6-7 hours from reboot to drained empty.
I already had fairly recent nVidia drivers on board, and did use the Device Manager to remove the FX 5200 before I shut down Sunday evening. The Wizard seemingly did its thing unattended, and the ti 4200 was up and running. I did end up improving the CPU cooling because the 4200 sent the CPU temperature too high -- now there's an 80 mm fan on the hsf.
It may have already been time to do another over the top Win98 refresh, so I've done that after the symptom of resource drain appeared. It didn't help. Interestingly, the MSconfig utility has become unstable now. Twice before the Win98 inplace reinstall was run, MSconfig locked up solid when I tried to actually use it to remove something in Startup. And it's done it again since that since the reinstall.
Prior to today, I was aware that Symantec writes their uninstalls badly and doesn't handle upgrades with much in the way of finesse, so you have to uninstall AND run some kind of Nortons "Clean Up" to finish the uninstall, before you can upgrade. I ran across a mention here of something similar for recent nVidia software? And a need for an aftermarket Clean up of some sort?
I got by with two prior nVidia adapter upgrades, but a downgrade is a no no?
:brokenheart:
But I was thinking I was close to ready to assemble / reassemble my proposed HTPC system here. All of the parts were on hand, I thought, but I wanted a more up to date video card and didn't think that a "fast" card was as important as one with Dx9 and Video Out. So I had a used GF 4 Ti 4200 that still worked, and put it into the base internet machine.
Because it does the Internet thing, it has Ad-aware, and Spyware Blaster, and NAV, I keep the virus definitions up to date, and I run scans regularly, so there's no Malware, no Trojan, no Virii.
But literally as soon as the system adjusted itself for the graphics card change, it's had a massive and speedy drain on its System and User Resource pools. Once, it went from a fresh reboot to a freeze with zero resources, without much of any interaction from me, in under three hours. I can close everything except Explorer and Systray, and let it sit idle, and that way it gets maybe 6-7 hours from reboot to drained empty.
I already had fairly recent nVidia drivers on board, and did use the Device Manager to remove the FX 5200 before I shut down Sunday evening. The Wizard seemingly did its thing unattended, and the ti 4200 was up and running. I did end up improving the CPU cooling because the 4200 sent the CPU temperature too high -- now there's an 80 mm fan on the hsf.
It may have already been time to do another over the top Win98 refresh, so I've done that after the symptom of resource drain appeared. It didn't help. Interestingly, the MSconfig utility has become unstable now. Twice before the Win98 inplace reinstall was run, MSconfig locked up solid when I tried to actually use it to remove something in Startup. And it's done it again since that since the reinstall.
Prior to today, I was aware that Symantec writes their uninstalls badly and doesn't handle upgrades with much in the way of finesse, so you have to uninstall AND run some kind of Nortons "Clean Up" to finish the uninstall, before you can upgrade. I ran across a mention here of something similar for recent nVidia software? And a need for an aftermarket Clean up of some sort?
I got by with two prior nVidia adapter upgrades, but a downgrade is a no no?
:brokenheart:
