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Old 04-07-2008, 11:28 PM   #8 (permalink)
diduknowthat
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Originally Posted by hackapelite View Post
That's sounds a bit extreme...but you could try playing some mp3's or something on a linux distro booted off a live cd, don't have to install anything.
I had to do that once with my old sound card. I seriously did everything i could and it still slows down when I'm doing CPU intensive tasks. A clean reformat solved the problem.
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