computer and video laggy after graphics card upgrade

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inonothing

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I hope someone can help as im going crazy with this

Computer details

1.6ghz
1024 ram, 64mb built in graphics card (via s3g unichrome pro igp)
XP sp3
motherboard: ms 7142

i purchased a Nvidia fx500 card with 128mb to upgrade as YouTube was a touch laggy on full hd but otherwise it seemed to work OK, for day to day stuff, i thought new card may make it smoother

i installed the new card, updated drivers but the video on youtube became lagging on everything, totally out of sync audio and video, and the computer is slower, so i rolled back drivers but still the same, before the upgrade it was fine.

I removed the new card and tried the onboard, now I have the same problem with old card

Tried malwarebytes scan, there were a few items which I deleted but still the same.

ive tried a repair installation of XP with the new card to see if any files were corrupt etc but no difference.

Then I removed the new card, and tried a malwarebytes scan with the integrated card, but scan was all clear.

So now im using my integrated card, with laagy video, whereas before it was fine.
This is in firefox, tried Chrome and the same. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling flash

i have noticed a square on the Firefox window on the taskbar when playing YouTube video, which was not there before

Ive been in the bios but can find anything relevant; the cards seem to load and unload by themselves when restarting.

Does anyone have any ideas what i can do
 
Why did you buy a Quadro card instead of a GeForce card? :confused:

Honestly though, your PC is very outdated.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Why did you buy a Quadro card instead of a GeForce card? :confused:

Honestly though, your PC is very outdated.
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well that's all well and true, but it does not help me.

as i say it (video) was working perfectly fine before but now its not and i am not buying another pc at the mo
 
inonothing said:
as i say it (video) was working perfectly fine before but now its not and i am not buying another pc at the mo
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Then remove the new card and uninstall the drivers for it. If it was working fine before, just deal with the slight lag or don't watch videos in HD.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Then remove the new card and uninstall the drivers for it. If it was working fine before, just deal with the slight lag or don't watch videos in HD.
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as i wrote in my original post ive already done that, twice.

Ive now got the old integrated card and still its lagging it was working fine before this fiasco, both on sd and also on hd.
 
Reinstall windows. Seems you have some type of corruption in the OS, whether it be flash or video driver related. Or try doing a system restore back to when it was working fine.
 
johnb35 said:
Reinstall windows. Seems you have some type of corruption in the OS, whether it be flash or video driver related. Or try doing a system restore back to when it was working fine.
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hi I've tried a repair install but no change, do you mean a full clean install?

re. the second point, sorry, but how do a system restore back to old before i connected the new graphics card
 
System restore is located under Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore.

And yes, he means a full, clean wipe and reinstall. Repair installs aren't really effective.
 
salvage-this said:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/system-restore-xp.htm

My bet is that the original issue is the 1.6GHz processor not being able to handle flash videos above a certain quality.
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OK folks will try the restore tomorrow.

as I before inserting the new card, SD was perfect no lag, also HD was perfectly acceptable, just some very minor lag now and again, but perfectly watchable, now even there crappiest video is unwatchable and also sound and video are totally out of sync.
 
inonothing said:
OK folks will try the restore tomorrow.

as I before inserting the new card, SD was perfect no lag, also HD was perfectly acceptable, just some very minor lag now and again, but perfectly watchable, now even there crappiest video is unwatchable and also sound and video are totally out of sync.
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There is probably more that is messed up now, hopefully the system restore will help fix that. When you get a chance can you play a video at 360, 480, 720, and 1080, and tell us what the CPU usage is at the different levels?
 
salvage-this said:
There is probably more that is messed up now, hopefully the system restore will help fix that. When you get a chance can you play a video at 360, 480, 720, and 1080, and tell us what the CPU usage is at the different levels?
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printer would not print, had to uninstall and reinstall drivers, never happened before. also there is a square on the Firefox tab on the taskbar when playing videos, next to the name of the video.

regarding cpu usage:

240P video, CPU usage between 40 and 100%.
480P video, CPU usage between 80 and 100%.
720P video, CPU usage around 100%.

also plugincontainer.exe seems to use between 40% and close to 100% when playing videos. for normal web browsing the CPU usage is quite small.
 
just looked at system restore, the dates are all after i installed the new card, so this is useless.

anyhow Ive ordered a new hard drive to do a fresh install, can i use another computer to install the new HDD, then move the HDD to my existing messed up computer? i don't want to be in the same situation as problems with drivers when moving hard drives.

ive read all i need to do is when the new drive is ready, install and go into safe mode and uninstall all drivers, and restart the computer
 
inonothing said:
just looked at system restore, the dates are all after i installed the new card, so this is useless.

anyhow Ive ordered a new hard drive to do a fresh install, can i use another computer to install the new HDD, then move the HDD to my existing messed up computer? i don't want to be in the same situation as problems with drivers when moving hard drives.

ive read all i need to do is when the new drive is ready, install and go into safe mode and uninstall all drivers, and restart the computer
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First off, you didn't need to buy a new hard drive.

Second, your plan is not going to work. Just install it directly into your computer and install Windows. You can't install Windows on one computer and then move the hard drive over.
 
ive just copied the following from my Firefox profiles, i can see some graphics items have been blocked, is there anyway i can unblock them as this may be the problem, it will save me a full installation again?

thanks

Adapter Description VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP
Adapter Drivers vtdisp
Adapter RAM Unknown
Device ID 0x3108
Direct2D Enabled Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues.
DirectWrite Enabled false (0.0.0.0)
Driver Date 4-28-2007
Driver Version 6.14.10.364
GPU #2 Active false
GPU Accelerated Windows 0/1 Basic Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues.
Vendor ID 0x1106
WebGL Renderer Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues.
windowLayerManagerRemote false
AzureCanvasBackend skia
AzureContentBackend cairo
AzureFallbackCanvasBackend cairo
AzureSkiaAccelerated 0
 
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i tried a clean install on a brand new hard drive today, xp installed OK but the uni-chrome driver was not recognized. something about error code 28. then i manually downloaded the driver and still it gave an error code 1.

it just does want to install, it look like the motherboard may be damaged- i don't know im not an expert.

either way look like im looking for a new computer after all,simply due to installing a new graphics card

what a waste of time!
 
Wait, If you have a fx500 video card installed, why are you trying to install the wrong video driver?

http://www.geforce.com/drivers

Go there and hit the first download box for automatic driver updates and install the driver for the correct card.
 
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