major video problem

[takethesewords]

whenever i try to play any game or watch a movie, it skips and stutters like a broken record, making the game/movie completely unplayable/unwatchable. and

when i mean it "skips like a broken record", i mean one chunk of sound will keep playing over and over and over again until it finally moves on to the next

part where itll do it again... its really really slow. sometimes in normal windows applications slow down alot also. i reinstalled win2k about a month ago

and shortly after i did that, i had mother frs install an xdcc bot on my computer. i thought that was the problem, but ive since gotten rid of that and

installed a nice firewall, yet the same sh!t happens.

heres my setup

gigabyte 7dx mobo
amd athlon xp 2100+ cpu
512mb pc2100 ram
128mb msi geforce 4 ti4200 8x (mobo only supports 4x)
pos 8x4x32x cdrw
40gb 5400rpm maxtor hdd
creative labs ensoniq audio (cheap soundcard)
330w enermax whisper psu

i used to have a geforce 2 gts 3d prophet II card in but i got the gf4 in today but it didnt fix sh!t. i am using 41.09 drivers

i disbaled acpi and got all devices on seperate irq's
ive changed the agp aperature size in the bios
ive defragged/scandisked
ive tried different vid card drivers
ive moved the network and soundcards to different spots
i took out the soundcard and booted without it, yet the same problem occurs...

maybe my aging hard drive is to blame here? or could the power supply be acting up? or maybe somethings wrong with the cpu/mobo?

anyone have ANY ideas at all?

thanks in advance for your help

 

[Bacinator]

Verify you have Microsoft's latest version of the NVidia detonator drivers.
Before I changed over to ATi, I noticed that the latest drivers from NVidia's website would generate graphical errors and glitches. But when I ran "Windows Update", it said a new driver was found (was an older version), but all the glitches were gone.

Make sure in -> control panel -> system -> advanced:
2 tabs. Make sure under visual effects, you do not have "best effects". And under the Advanced Tab, make sure "Processor Scheduling" is set to programs, Memory is set to programs, and Virtual Memory is set to "System Managed Size"

Also try lowering you screen resolution... Though this should not cause errors during games that load different screen resolutions.

Hope something up there fixes your problem.

 

[Bacinator]

Oh yeah... And I distinctly remember having the video skipping problem on my wife's PIII 733mhz, but it was only games, not video. The Nvidia detonator driver rollback to MS's version fixed that.

 

[takethesewords]

i do not get the option to roll back to microsofts nvidia drivers... but i did install WHQL 40.72 drivers instead of the non-WHQL 41.09. and that did not fix it at all.

also i did not have those options in the control panelm but there was one similiar to setting the processing to applications, so i did that...

what should my d3d and openGL settings and what not be in the nvidia control panel (hit advanced in display properties)? vsync on or off? antriscopic filtering and the like?

thanks for the help

 

[Bacinator]

Not sure off the top of my head. Maybe try going through the control panel and setting everything to the "safest/lowest" settings.

 

[takethesewords]

man, nothing seems to be working. i think i am going to reinstall windows, because i am thinking maybe those hacking f**kers that put the xdcc bots on my computer numerous times f**ked my install up. at least thats what i am hoping. otherwise i guess i'll have to buy a new hard drive to see if that fixes the problem, and if it doesn't....then i will just cry.

 

[sunkim50]

just make sure you get a good anti-virus program and maybe a software/hardware firewall