Confused/Help: After doing a reformat, everything is lagging.

[LakerGod]

After reformating my C partition with Win2k SP3 (which i've done many times), i have noticed my computer is much, much, much slower. Opening three applications just causes my whole system to slow down. Sometirmes when I open up outlook, my explorer will shoot up to 100% cpu usage. Playing video files while an application like kazaa or aim is running will show the video in the bottom-left corner of the media player instead of the whole window. I can't figure out what's wrong, can somebody help me out on this one?


Cliff Notes: Computer much slower and lags after doing a reformat.

 

[Insane3D]

Sounds like your HD is running in PIO mode. Go into the device manager and make sure your HD is running UDMA mode.

 

[LakerGod]

My Primary IDE channel (where both my hds are) is set to 'DMA if available'.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: LakerGod
My Primary IDE channel (where both my hds are) is set to 'DMA if available'.

what does it read under it? it supposed to tell you what mode they are actually running under

 

[LakerGod]

Both my hard drives and my burner are running under Ultra DMA mode. My dvd rom is running under PIO, since windows won't detect it when i set it to DMA.

 

[KK]

maybe you should defrag your hard drive.

Anywho, I have no idea why it would be slower, are all the drivers installed?

KK

 

[Renob]

chipset drivers??

 

[LakerGod]

Originally posted by: Renob
chipset drivers??

What are those?

 

[LakerGod]

I did a defrag...same thing is going on. What else could it be?

 

[Brutuskend]

Go to the site of your M/B maker, find out what chipset you have (Via is common) download and install the newest drivers.

Edit: What OS are you running? Also download and install the drivers for your IDE controler.

 

[LakerGod]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Go to the site of your M/B maker, find out what chipset you have (Via is common) download and install the newest drivers.

Edit: What OS are you running?

I have a Soyo motherboard and I'm running Win2K SP3.

 

[Brutuskend]

Find your motherboard here download and install ALL drivers they list for that board.

 

[richardycc]

my computer is lagging too, and I am using XP, I did some digging around, and a lot of people experience slow down after they downloaded and updated their computer with the hotfix Q811493. They uninstall it and their computer seem to be running fine now, but mine computer is still slow after I uninstalled this hotfix. I don't know if this is your problem, but if anyone else has any idea, please help US.

thanks,
rich

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: LakerGod

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Go to the site of your M/B maker, find out what chipset you have (Via is common) download and install the newest drivers.

Edit: What OS are you running?

I have a Soyo motherboard and I'm running Win2K SP3.

I did the same thing last night. The install order is also somewhat important, although it probably won't break anything if you don't follow it..

1) install Win2k
2) install Win2kSP4. <-- note SP4 is the newest one. You should try to run that insted of SP3.
3) install all MB drivers. I have a Soyo P4X400 MB so I have VIA drivers.
3a) Install the VIA 4 in 1 driver
3b) Install the Via USB driver
3c) Install all other VIA drivers that pertain to your board, such as lan and audio drivers.
4) Go to Windows Update and install the latest version of DirectX (9.0a)
5) install updated drivers for all of your other harware, including you video card.
6) Install all your other software and stuff from Windows Update like WMP 9

After that everything should run smoothly.

Edit: All of this assumes you have a broadband connection. If you don't then it is probably too much stuff to download and install. The SP4 patch from Microsoft is ~130 megs. I think all of the MB updates for my P4X400 totaled ~30 megs. It is a lot to download, but if you can, you should.

 

[LakerGod]

Thanks for the help, Kyteland. Quick question...is there anyway I can go through the settings to figure what kind of motherboard I have, or should I dig for the manual? I've never had to install motherboard drivers before, everything ran smoothly.

Side note: i've noticed that mplayer is takes up a ton of resources whenever i play a movie, 60-100%.

 

[LakerGod]

bumpy

 

[Kyteland]

You'll probably have to pull out your manual to find out which model you have. Or you could open up the case and see if it is printed somewhere on the board. I don't think you can look it up in your Windows profile or anything like that.

 

[Brutuskend]

You can download sysoft sandra, that will tell you what board you have as I recall.

Of you can look @ the BIOS number (that long string of numbers that pop up what you first start you computer) it's a pain in the ass to do it that way though, easier to open the case and look on the board.