I just put together a new machine and I'm stumped by a video problem I'm having. I *think* its any graphics using hardware acceleration.
Specifically: Menu fade-in, windows' built-in 3d screen savers, and games. These all seem to be running in single-digit FPS, games unaffected by resolution, AA, etc. Other oddities: in BIOS menu, there's an animated gradient bar at the top which moves very slowly, and bios is slow to respond to the keyboard (using a usb keyboard); Windows setup from CD runs VERY slowly; Windows boot up logo fades in VERY slowly (dragging down the whole boot up process) but once the loading bar starts to move the process is very quick.
Here's the kicker: It all runs great otherwise. Games install and start up fast, at high settings image quality is superb, web browsing is quick, etc.
The hardware:
Core 2 Duo 6400
MSI P965 Platinum w/ current bios
1gb (2x512) Corsair 5-5-5-12 PC800
Diamond Raedon x1950pro 256mb
Kingwin 600w, pci-e x2, 8-pin mobo power, 2x 20A 12v rails
Seagate hdd
pioneer dvd
I've tried all recent Catalyst drivers (and .net 2.0), have DirectX 9c, have the latest chipset drivers from Intel. Do I need to send the video card back? Is the motherboard having pci-e problems? This all continues despite several clean XP installs.
HELP!
Specifically: Menu fade-in, windows' built-in 3d screen savers, and games. These all seem to be running in single-digit FPS, games unaffected by resolution, AA, etc. Other oddities: in BIOS menu, there's an animated gradient bar at the top which moves very slowly, and bios is slow to respond to the keyboard (using a usb keyboard); Windows setup from CD runs VERY slowly; Windows boot up logo fades in VERY slowly (dragging down the whole boot up process) but once the loading bar starts to move the process is very quick.
Here's the kicker: It all runs great otherwise. Games install and start up fast, at high settings image quality is superb, web browsing is quick, etc.
The hardware:
Core 2 Duo 6400
MSI P965 Platinum w/ current bios
1gb (2x512) Corsair 5-5-5-12 PC800
Diamond Raedon x1950pro 256mb
Kingwin 600w, pci-e x2, 8-pin mobo power, 2x 20A 12v rails
Seagate hdd
pioneer dvd
I've tried all recent Catalyst drivers (and .net 2.0), have DirectX 9c, have the latest chipset drivers from Intel. Do I need to send the video card back? Is the motherboard having pci-e problems? This all continues despite several clean XP installs.
HELP!
