Hi everyone,
I have an odd story to tell, and I am wondering whether any of you out there can give me a hand in providing a solution. (If you are not interested in back story you can skip my long, work avoiding ramblings, and head to "Anyway" paragraph!)
I purchased a rather clumsily small computer shop built computer 5 or so years ago, and everything was fine, I slowly upgraded it over the years until one day it blue screened on me, which, as always, was rather upsetting. I re-installed windows and started everything again however this time round it was much slower and more unreliable. What used to be able to run Half-Life 2 rather handsomely, now was a wreck, clogging along at only a few fps. Windows itself was also considerably slower. I eventually gave up and bought a new motherboard and processor and that now seems to work fine... (though that has died on me a few times but seems ok... but that is another story...)...
Anyway, recently I remembered I had this old motherboard, and a friend has gifted me a case, powersupply, and a hard drive, so I decided to test my computer skills and build a machine from scratch for my girlfriend who is still living off a 700Mhz all in one I-friend PC... It all seems to be working fine... except it is still alot slower than it should be, applications it should easily run move like a slug. However my problem is I do not know of a way of testing the hardware to see why? Can a motherboard or processor or graphics card (these are the only pieces that remain the same) run slower than it should and still work? What would be the cause of this slowness? Can this be fixed without purchasing new kit?
I can provide as much information as I can remember (it is not here with me at work) about the computer:
Matsonic MS8157E motherboard
AMD 1800+ athlon processor
Radeon 9600 Pro graphics card
1gb of cheapish ram
A rather dodgy harddrive that my friend seems to think was dead but seems to be running ok? (I don't think this can be the problem since it had the problem before I even had this)
Running:
Clean install of Windows XP (not yet activated, but I'll get round to that), and just the drivers for the motherboard and graphics card installed. So I do not think it can be a software problem, especially since the problem existed on an entirely different hard drive!
If there is any more information that might help diagnosis, I can try to remember more? But all help is very much appreciated! I apologise for the long winded story!
Thanks in advance,
Edd
I have an odd story to tell, and I am wondering whether any of you out there can give me a hand in providing a solution. (If you are not interested in back story you can skip my long, work avoiding ramblings, and head to "Anyway" paragraph!)
I purchased a rather clumsily small computer shop built computer 5 or so years ago, and everything was fine, I slowly upgraded it over the years until one day it blue screened on me, which, as always, was rather upsetting. I re-installed windows and started everything again however this time round it was much slower and more unreliable. What used to be able to run Half-Life 2 rather handsomely, now was a wreck, clogging along at only a few fps. Windows itself was also considerably slower. I eventually gave up and bought a new motherboard and processor and that now seems to work fine... (though that has died on me a few times but seems ok... but that is another story...)...
Anyway, recently I remembered I had this old motherboard, and a friend has gifted me a case, powersupply, and a hard drive, so I decided to test my computer skills and build a machine from scratch for my girlfriend who is still living off a 700Mhz all in one I-friend PC... It all seems to be working fine... except it is still alot slower than it should be, applications it should easily run move like a slug. However my problem is I do not know of a way of testing the hardware to see why? Can a motherboard or processor or graphics card (these are the only pieces that remain the same) run slower than it should and still work? What would be the cause of this slowness? Can this be fixed without purchasing new kit?
I can provide as much information as I can remember (it is not here with me at work) about the computer:
Matsonic MS8157E motherboard
AMD 1800+ athlon processor
Radeon 9600 Pro graphics card
1gb of cheapish ram
A rather dodgy harddrive that my friend seems to think was dead but seems to be running ok? (I don't think this can be the problem since it had the problem before I even had this)
Running:
Clean install of Windows XP (not yet activated, but I'll get round to that), and just the drivers for the motherboard and graphics card installed. So I do not think it can be a software problem, especially since the problem existed on an entirely different hard drive!
If there is any more information that might help diagnosis, I can try to remember more? But all help is very much appreciated! I apologise for the long winded story!
Thanks in advance,
Edd
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