DavidBeoulve
ISP
Aside from the fun with my wife's PC's power supply dying, my new PC is giving me trouble. In any game I run and in the middle of the Operating System it will randomly pause for 3 to 5 seconds and then continue. I've updated my Nvidia drivers and Motherboard drivers. I'm running Windows XP Professional.
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7VRXP Raid Socket A DDR Retail Box
CPU: AMD Athlon™ XP 2100 1.73GHz Socket A OEM
CPU Fan: Thermaltake Volcano 9 Socket A Variable Fan Speed Control
Videocard: AGP MSI GeForce4 Ti 4400 128Mb DDR TV/DVI Retail Box
RAM: 2x 512Mb DDR333 PC2700 (1Gb Total) Double-Data Rate, 333mhz
Hard Drive: 80Gb ATA100 WD 7200rpm
DVD Drive: 16 X Toshiba DVD-Rom IDE OEM
Floppy Drive: 1.44Mb 3.5 Samsung Floppy Drive OEM
Case: ATX Deluxe MidTower 400W P.S. w/2 Front USB
Fans (extra): 2x Case Cooling Fans
Keyboard: PS2 Windows Keyboard
Mouse: PS2 Optical Scroll Mouse
OS: Windows XP Professional
Hitachi CM823FB Black
Now the Gigabyte Motherboard has a Promise RAID controller that Windows XP didn't understand for the longest time, and it complained a lot. I got the drivers installed from the CD and it seemed to quiet down. I thought the pauses might be due to it, however, and I disabled RAID in the BIOS, but there's no change.
I also thought it might be my Nvidia drivers, so I used the MSI Driver CD and then Nvidia's drivers to no avail.
What could be causing these pauses? Oftentimes starting up a program will just pause, or submitting a webpage, or switching between windows. I can't be sure if the pausing is random or in synch with what is going on. My mouse will move but nothing responds, and then like lightning everything catches up.
Any ideas/assistance greatly appreciated.
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7VRXP Raid Socket A DDR Retail Box
CPU: AMD Athlon™ XP 2100 1.73GHz Socket A OEM
CPU Fan: Thermaltake Volcano 9 Socket A Variable Fan Speed Control
Videocard: AGP MSI GeForce4 Ti 4400 128Mb DDR TV/DVI Retail Box
RAM: 2x 512Mb DDR333 PC2700 (1Gb Total) Double-Data Rate, 333mhz
Hard Drive: 80Gb ATA100 WD 7200rpm
DVD Drive: 16 X Toshiba DVD-Rom IDE OEM
Floppy Drive: 1.44Mb 3.5 Samsung Floppy Drive OEM
Case: ATX Deluxe MidTower 400W P.S. w/2 Front USB
Fans (extra): 2x Case Cooling Fans
Keyboard: PS2 Windows Keyboard
Mouse: PS2 Optical Scroll Mouse
OS: Windows XP Professional
Hitachi CM823FB Black
Now the Gigabyte Motherboard has a Promise RAID controller that Windows XP didn't understand for the longest time, and it complained a lot. I got the drivers installed from the CD and it seemed to quiet down. I thought the pauses might be due to it, however, and I disabled RAID in the BIOS, but there's no change.
I also thought it might be my Nvidia drivers, so I used the MSI Driver CD and then Nvidia's drivers to no avail.
What could be causing these pauses? Oftentimes starting up a program will just pause, or submitting a webpage, or switching between windows. I can't be sure if the pausing is random or in synch with what is going on. My mouse will move but nothing responds, and then like lightning everything catches up.
Any ideas/assistance greatly appreciated.