problems with new build and windows 7

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gordonie

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System specs:

PSU: corsair 1200 gold
MOBO: asus 68 deluxe gen 3
CPU: intel g530 duo, will upgrade to ivy bridge
GPU: nvidia 9600 gt, upgrading to amd 7970 next month
RAM: gskill 1600mhz 16g
HD: 2x120g corsair force gt ssd in raid 0, windows drive.
HD2: 2tb wd black
CASE: HAFX
OS: windows 7 ultimate 64bit

ok, so before we start yes my cpu and gpu and grossly outdated, but I have plans to upgrade to ivy bridge and amd's southern islands, (7900 seires) as soon as they come out.

Currently I am attempting to run windows 7 ultimate on a pair of corsair force gt 120g ssds in raid 0 using the hardware controller built into the motherboard.

I have installed windows, as well as various drivers, office 2010, and a few other things. Everything is well except the whole system is just, glitchy. Certain things dont work like gagets and such, any audio I play stutters every half second, infact, the whole system every half second will stop for a second, and then continue. it really makes navigating the whole system a pain and I dont know whats going on.

I know its not a virus, I have pc tools and kasperkies and both their scans pull up nothing. Infact I reinstalled windows alltogether and I am still getting the same problem so unless I have a virus that can survive a formatting, then its not a virus.

I can take a video with my phone to show you whats going on if you would like, pretty much the whole system is stutters every half second. I have noticed it gets worse with system use.

I tried a few registry fixers and they found a bunch of stuff, one found 100 errors the other 1,000 errors, neither seemed to work. I hear they are all snake oil anyway so.

Anyway, really confused, tried everything, defragged all my hard drives, system scans, registry cleaners, restores, reinstalled drivers and windows itself. really bummed out at this point as I have been working on this new rig for the past week and cant seem to figure this out.


and I doubt this matter but the first time I installed windows 7 it ran good, then I tried ntune to oc my laggy gpu to maybe give me a little boost in bf3, I think things started going downhill from that install, it gave me bsod when I tried to run it, only to find out ntune is outdated and bad altogether haha and then I couldnt uninstall it! but even after the reinstall of windows 7 the problems persists so I dont think it is related.

I am truly starting to think my problem is hardware related. But which component should I persue a fix for? How do I check each ones functionality?

would love some help,

thanks!
 
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The first thing I would do would be to reset bios back to defaults. And try a different video card. You said it worked fine until you overclocked, so start there.
 
I have reset the bios to defaults, with the exception of setting the sata to RAID mode instead of achi because without that I cant boot.

And I never actually OC it because as soon as I tried to open the program I got BSOD. After that I did a complete reinstall of windows, downloaded nvidia latest drivers like I did the first time and ntune is really no where to be found. I completely reformatted all my HD's.

And I dont have access to a different display adapter, do you think I could have fried it somehow?

I can see how the stutttering could be related to the gpu, infact the whole problem could be related to it. Can I switch to the onboard gpu inside my cpu to see if that resolves it? How would I do that?
 
take the gpu out and plug the cable into the motherboard's slot and it should default to the intel hd igpu.
 
yes that is my motherboard. I think Ill try to go into device manager and disable the gpu, see if it defaults to processor.
 
It did not work, I decided to install window 7 onto just one of the ssd, I broke the raid, this way I can eliminate a potential problem there.

if it works I am going to be mad.
 
well, I reinstalled windows on just 1 of the ssds. still having stuttering problems.

At thsi point im sure its hardware, maybe somethings not working properly or my cpu is just slow.

not sure where to go from here.
 
Im not sure how to diagnose that, my system says its running fine and when I play bf3 I actually get less stutter then when I navigate my system.

Someone on another forum said I might not have partitioned my boot drive, C, correctly. It curently has no system reserved partition, typically 100-200mb big and used for cache, or so I understand.

sI was also informed that maybe my power plan is putting my hd to sleep, which it is after 20 mins but even changing that to "never sleep" helped, although I havent not experimented with it much, it would make sense that if I am only using whats already on the ram that my hd would sleep if its not being used, which could explain it but then again I am using an ssd which doesnt spin up?

Or I could flat out have a bad gpu, I did borrow the old thing from a friend after all to tide me over till the 7970 hits the market, which it is next month! 8)

Id really like to try creating a system reserved partition and see what that does, I noticed on my first install I created one but on these last two installs of windows I think somehow I neglected to let windows do that. I have 300mb of unallocated space on my boot drive waiting but disk management wont let me create a system reserved partition, or at least I dont know how.

any advice?

thanks!
 
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UPDATE!

Found out what it was, i got the sucker! Turns out its one of windows updates. So the whole first half of today I have been running windows by itself with nothing on it, not even connected to the internet. The second half of today I installed kasmerkies anti-virus, everything cake. I have been running the system smoothly playing audio all great, just now I connected to the internet, played around a bit and then decided to go ahead and install the nearly 100 IMPORTANT updates windows was recommending, close to a gig. As soon as I restarted the computer the stutter came with a vengence, wow!

So now I guess its up to me to uninstall EVERY update, and install one at a time to weed out the bad guy. Never had this happen on my laptops, all I can say is wow. Could one of the updates be fighting with something on my mothebroard like the bios of the bus chips or something? I think I am going to install SP1, play for a littl bit, then try a motherboard update from the asus website.
 
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