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Slow video playback with new motherboard

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PepperBreath

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First, my current system specs:

Athlon 1.333Ghz
512Mb RAM
Biostar M7VIW
Radeon 8500
SB Audigy 2

I previously had a Biostar M7MIA in my system but somehow the BIOS became corrupted and I had to replace it. No hardware has changed except for the removal of a NIC as the replacement board has onboard LAN. Other than that, the hardware is identical.

On my old system, video playback was incredibly smooth. I could watch whole movies off the HDD without the slightest hint of hiccups or slowdown. Now, it seems quite bad as far as hiccups go and get progressively worse depending on how much action is occurring on the screen.

My only clue as to why these hiccups occur is that I can hear my HDD slightly "chug" when one of these bumps occur. This never happened with the old motherboard.

Can anyone clue me in as to why a newer motherboard would slow down my HDD or IDE performance in that I would notice it chug with movies?
 
Originally posted by: tjaisv
Did u reformat and reinstall your OS drive prior to installing the new mobo? It's always best to do this.
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Right on, motherboard swaps usually don't work using the same loaded operating system and sometimes if you just switch out a faulty motherboard with the same motherboard it doesn't work either because of different reversions, etc.

 
ComputerGeeks mentions in their discription of the board under the notes that it may require a bios flash for use with ATI cards, so flash to the latest bios bios download page I presume you have the latest 4in1's as well?
 
1. Yes I'm using the latest Bios. Yes, I'm using the latest 4-in-1s.

2. It's not just DivX files. All movie files seem to be affected although it gets progressively worse as the compression goes up. IE, Divx, WMV, and other mpeg 4 codecs are the worst, followed by Mpeg2.

3. I'll give those older 4-in-1s a shot. Thanks for the advice although I'll admit I'm not too hopeful.

EDIT

Switching to v4.38 4-in-1s didn't help.
 
*Bump* Any other suggestions?

I did some experimenting. My system was Windows XP on a 10GB NTFS partition. I formatted the boot partition to FAT32 with Windows XP and it was still very choppy. I formatted again and tried Windows 98 SE with FAT32 and the playback was very smooth with absolutely no hiccups or choppyness. I also tried a different HDD and I got the same results so I know it's not my HDD.

Anyone know why Windows XP would give me video playback trouble on this new motherboard? I'm going to try Windows 2000 tomorrow since I really can't be using Win98. I have a huge 100GB partition formatted with NTFS that I won't have access to if I use Win98.
 
The hiccups can occur if another program is running also ... hit ctrl+alt+del and click on the Processes Tab ... it will show you everything that is eating your CPU ... if there is another program that is running at high CPU during the chops .. write it down and do a search to find where and what that file is ... you can also try "Ending the Process" afterwards to see if it fixes your problem ...
 
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