I had an FX card in a slightly older PC here that only has Win98se on it; doing some sorting out of parts just as an HTPC project is about to go together, and this old faithful system suddenly has a serious drain on its resources. The FX was the plain 5200, and the GF is a ti 4200. When no programs at all are actively working, it's still losing quite steadily. It takes perhaps two and a half, maybe three hours, to crash with 0-1% remaining resources (System and User Resources, going down in lockstep).
Since I use Spyblaster and run regular scans with Ad-Aware, anything from outside is unlikely, but I went ahead and ran fresh spyware and virus scans. Nothing.
I think I've run into this before, quite some while back, but now I just can't recall where to start on running the culprit down. Have there been buggy versions of nVidia's "nView" utility that would do this? The replace- ment of the video card didn't seem to require any new software -- but I do have a much newer eVGA FX adapter on hand, and it had newer software with it. Should I uninstall all of nVidia's software and start over?
:disgust:
Since I use Spyblaster and run regular scans with Ad-Aware, anything from outside is unlikely, but I went ahead and ran fresh spyware and virus scans. Nothing.
I think I've run into this before, quite some while back, but now I just can't recall where to start on running the culprit down. Have there been buggy versions of nVidia's "nView" utility that would do this? The replace- ment of the video card didn't seem to require any new software -- but I do have a much newer eVGA FX adapter on hand, and it had newer software with it. Should I uninstall all of nVidia's software and start over?
:disgust:
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