Two problems. Hard drive conflict, Frames Per Second...

[Drolith]

Start with what essential hardware I am currently running:
Foxconn K8S755A-6ELRS Socket 754 SiS 755
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 754
ZALMAN 600W Power Supply (Modular)
Western Digital Caviar 160GB 7200 RPM SATA
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM SATA
2x 512mb of Corsair Value DDR400 (old) + 1gb G.Skill DDR400
HIS Radeon X1950PRO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X

My first problem I will lay out is my hard drive conflict. Every now and then when I am moving large files, downloading files, scanning files, Installing software, or anything to do with intense hard drive activity I get the BSOD (blue screen of death). It is stating some problem with SCSIPORT.SYS. I?m guessing I need some new driver to help this file out or something but, not sure what type of driver exactly. List of current drivers for my MOBO tell me what would POSSIBLY fix this.
http://www.foxconnchannel.com/...support/downloads.aspx
Reason for me even getting this cheap motherboard is because I needed a quick fix and have yet to upgrade it.

Sadly No new bios revision sense 05 either .

Second problem is a little more cryptic but I hope I can blame the motherboard again. Anyway I know I am not getting the FPS in games that I should be running the x1950PRO. Take for example Counter Strike: Source. This game I used to run on older hardware and managed to average around 60fps with high graphic options enabled. Currently I have all graphic options on low, including a low resolution and average like 25fps. WHY?! The FPS drop isn?t as noticeable in other games but it is there. Now my guesses are either motherboard being pissy , or some CPU bottleneck. Even though the only real hardware that has changed is motherboard and GPU sense the last time I had decent FPS.
(I have latest ATI and DX Drivers)

Anyway there are my issues?ignore any incoherency within this post it is 5am, and I?m aggravated.

 

[Drolith]

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[btcomm1]

Well for your HD issue, it could be the controller on the motherboard is not the greatest or it could be the hd going out, it could also possibly be your hd cable but probably not. It could be a driver issue but it seems like when you have issues with an HD unless you are running Raid it's most likely some kind of hardware issue, could be you just need to use chkdsk on your drive. It could also be a corrupted windows install.

If anything listed there would help I would think it would be the system chipset but I don't think it necessarily will.

I would create a restore point before you install this if you do.

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/...l.aspx?ID=en-gb0001015


As far as the 25 fps issue, are you saying that other games that run on this same computer do not have a slow down?

If not then I would suggest uninstalling this game completely and then reinstalling it.

There could be some setting causing this to happen, something that was set unknowingly or the game could be corrupted.

 

[Drolith]

well I hope its not hard drive hardware failure, sense these are new drives. Seems I did a chkdsk before but I'll try again.

and no its not just one game, I am having poor FPS performance on every game. But it only seems to be extremely noticable on First Person Shooters (example hitman blood money is unplayable with LOW settings)...maybe because they are more graphically intense.

 

[btcomm1]

From the sounds of it, it very well could be your motherboard, BSOD while transfering data and low fps on the computer, it could also be your video card, do you have another video card to test to see if you still get low fps?