Teh Slowness no good

RWBRWB Icrontian
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
I am totally unsure what is causing this, but I am getting some bad bottlenecks in my system. I am unsure when this started, but generally speaking, I cannot see any slowdown playing games, and I haven't tested everything. But when I try to do something, it can take a bit longer than usual for it to start.

For instance, when Defragging my HDD my mouse will studder around my screen when I move it, it is not smooth at all, and general applications like IE or anything small runs very slowly. I know you're not really supposed to do that, but I used to be able to while defragging.

I just reformatted, everything went smoothly and I didput in a MB I thought I fried, but it works now that I fixed it(had AS3 on the backside somehow).

Thing is... it runs applications normal, but studders on things that it normally wouldn't studder on. I do have F@H running as service in the background.

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  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    RWB said
    I do have F@H running as service in the background.


    Well, we know it's not that. :) Do you have any other resident programs running?

    It's easy to check if you have XP. Just go to the task manager, and click over to the processes tab. It will show you what resident programs are eating up which resources. It's a little more involved if you're in an earlier Windows version.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    I just remembered that I did something during the installation of Windows 2000... I pressed F5 to change that "thing" not sure what you call it, but I set it to "STANDARD PC"...

    Can someone tell me what the hell this was? I can't remember, but if I change this driver to ACPI which one should I use?

    ACPI for Uniprocessor
    ACPI for Multi

    Or... (ACPI) PC
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    I swear that you can change <b> Standard PC </b> to <b> APCI (or Uni-Processor) </b>. See this post. It has all the steps listed.

    http://short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3040&highlight=ACPI
  • hypermoodhypermood Smyrna, GA New
    edited September 2003
    Make sure your IDE devices are all running in DMA mode.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Just found that myself, did a search earlier, read it and did just that. Then repaired my OS and it seems ok now, about to run some tests to be sure.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited September 2003
    It depends on what system you have. I'm not expert on this, but the majority of PC's these days will be running as Advanced Configeration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC, but that varies slightly, as my new PC installed itself as a ACPI Uniprocessor PC, but I recommened selecting the first one I mentioned if you're not sure.

    There is no (as the above linked to thread concluded) easy way to change from a Standard PC computer installation to an ACPI variant with a repair of full re-install.

    EDIT: (Too late for love);)
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