Hello,
Recently I've been having trouble a lot from Windows ME so I decided to finally make the jump and upgrade to Windows XP and get some stability back. So me and my friend Shamrock (hey I think he posts here heh) formatted my drive and put Windows XP Professional in. I'm giddy and excited that for the first time ever I haven't had one crash in a single day heheh. But at the expense of stability I have sacrificed a significant hit in performance. I have all of my drivers up to newest versions and I have all the drivers I can think of.
I am a big fan of Mad Onion's 3DMark programs as good benchmark utilities and I noticed that my 3DMark2000 score of 9712 (WindowsME with DetXP drivers) has dropped to 9150, similar to how my system performed with WindowsME before DetinatorXP drivers even existed (that score: 9142) The 3DMark2001 SE benchmark doesn't even load at all, it says my processor lacks MMX instructions, which is very odd. 3DMark2000 and DXDIAG note MMX instructions being enabled in the processor. Could this have a relation to my performance hit problem?
Like I said before, I have all of my drivers up to the latest versions and I have all the drivers that I can think of that I would need for my PC. There is one thing I can think of, however, that I haven't done. And that's flash my BIOS. Should I try flashing my BIOS to see what happens? I've had the PC for about a year now and I haven't flashed the BIOS at all. Could that be a factor into my significant performance hit?
I have had to reformat from WindowsME twice due to complications with launcher being corrupt and severe OS screwup after return key stuck and opened up a nice 50 or so IE's. I have had many occasions in which I had to manually power off the machine without shutting down and due to having a 40GB hard drive I have avoided doing things like scan disk. Could hardware be damaged to where this performance hit could take place?
Anyway, without further adieu, here's the complete rundown of my system from A to Z:
Alienware Aurora DDR
AMD Athlon 1.4 Ghz (VIA 4inI 4.38, AMD Driver Pack 1.20, IDE Bus Master 1.40c drivers)
ASUSTek A7M266 Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 40GB Hard Drive
256 MB DDR RAM
Nvidia GeForce3 64MB (DetonatorXP version 28.32 drivers)
Sound Blaster Live! Value (Sound Blaster Live! Driver Update Revision 1)
Intel Pro 100/S Desktop Adapter Network Card (WindowsXP driver)
Pioneer DVD-116
Plextor 16/10/40a
Thank you guys for your help,
Travis
Recently I've been having trouble a lot from Windows ME so I decided to finally make the jump and upgrade to Windows XP and get some stability back. So me and my friend Shamrock (hey I think he posts here heh) formatted my drive and put Windows XP Professional in. I'm giddy and excited that for the first time ever I haven't had one crash in a single day heheh. But at the expense of stability I have sacrificed a significant hit in performance. I have all of my drivers up to newest versions and I have all the drivers I can think of.
I am a big fan of Mad Onion's 3DMark programs as good benchmark utilities and I noticed that my 3DMark2000 score of 9712 (WindowsME with DetXP drivers) has dropped to 9150, similar to how my system performed with WindowsME before DetinatorXP drivers even existed (that score: 9142) The 3DMark2001 SE benchmark doesn't even load at all, it says my processor lacks MMX instructions, which is very odd. 3DMark2000 and DXDIAG note MMX instructions being enabled in the processor. Could this have a relation to my performance hit problem?
Like I said before, I have all of my drivers up to the latest versions and I have all the drivers that I can think of that I would need for my PC. There is one thing I can think of, however, that I haven't done. And that's flash my BIOS. Should I try flashing my BIOS to see what happens? I've had the PC for about a year now and I haven't flashed the BIOS at all. Could that be a factor into my significant performance hit?
I have had to reformat from WindowsME twice due to complications with launcher being corrupt and severe OS screwup after return key stuck and opened up a nice 50 or so IE's. I have had many occasions in which I had to manually power off the machine without shutting down and due to having a 40GB hard drive I have avoided doing things like scan disk. Could hardware be damaged to where this performance hit could take place?
Anyway, without further adieu, here's the complete rundown of my system from A to Z:
Alienware Aurora DDR
AMD Athlon 1.4 Ghz (VIA 4inI 4.38, AMD Driver Pack 1.20, IDE Bus Master 1.40c drivers)
ASUSTek A7M266 Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 40GB Hard Drive
256 MB DDR RAM
Nvidia GeForce3 64MB (DetonatorXP version 28.32 drivers)
Sound Blaster Live! Value (Sound Blaster Live! Driver Update Revision 1)
Intel Pro 100/S Desktop Adapter Network Card (WindowsXP driver)
Pioneer DVD-116
Plextor 16/10/40a
Thank you guys for your help,
Travis
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