Help me, new install is slow

SkeeterUK

SkeeterUK

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Hi there.

My specs.

Asus p5kc latest bios i presume.
Q6600 not overclocked
gf 5200 pci 128mb(temp card)
4gb 2x2gb kingston ddr2 1066 ram in 800mhz mode cos not sure settings yet.
sb audigy 2 zs
samsung f1 500gb drive bought erm march i think ish
maxtor 200gb ide drive

Righty o.

I turned the comp on it wasnt coming on properly. Heard a creak and it started staying on also i did the hold del while turning the comp on.

So i used load default setup and went to install vista 64bit ultimate ed.

Thing is it was dog slow. Vista was stuck on 1 screen before u do anything for 5-10 mins. This happened on a few places.

Eventually it got installed. But the performance test got stuck about 20% done i left it for 20 mins the bar didnt move, the computer wasnt crashed of frozen as numlock light went on and off when i pressed it. So your guess is as good as mine.

General slowness since.

Now in bios i took speedstep off but its still declocking my cpu. I also tweaked the ram so its 2t command rate, 800mhz, auto settings like 5,5,5, etc.

Here is reading of coretemp just installed it not messed with settings for it either.

coretempa.jpg


The temps are inaccurate i think because i have this sensor for the front of my antec p160w case and its got one of the sensors on the tuniq in the middle under bit of one of the heatpipes and its reading about 28. Also my vid seems high i expect it to be lower.

Here is cpuz and keep in mind speedstep is off in bios.

cpu1d.jpg


Here is my ram settings in cpuz.

ram1a.jpg


Also i get little bars poping up sometimes maybe cos of the card i got off mate the 5200 or that its just pants i duno.

Help me cos i want this to be as fast as it should be peeps. What bios settings do i do etc.
 
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Don't you need to turn C1E (or something similar to that) off in bios aswell as Speedstep and i would say the memory is a little dodgy on the card due to the green lines, you could also turn aero and windows skin to classic and see if that helps.
 
vista requires Direct X 10

that 5200 will never ever be able to run Direct X 10, try getting a newer card

ie 6200 LE or 3XXX series

edit: still the 5200 wont be up to the job unfortunately
 
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AGP?? What are you on about its a p5kc it has pci-e two full speed slots. I was given a PCI (not express) card for a temp card till i can buy a nice card but this will do for now.

No green lines just ghost bits sometimes from moving windows about or somit.
 
Speedstep isn't the only CPU throttling function in the BIOS, C1E should also be turned off and if a thermal throttling option exists, that too.

The VID will be what coretemp is showing you which means your Q6600 is a 1.325VID chip not a lower one and the temps are also accurate as coretemp gets the temps off each core whereas your probe device is getting the general cpu temp itself which is always lower than actual core temps (eg: my Q6600 right now is 51.50.48.49 per core yet the "CPU temp" is 42 degrees.

The performance issues you have may well be something else. I would hazard a bet that there is a problem with the GFX card, if you get bars and lines across the screen then the gfx card is faulty and should be swapped out.

Remember if you're using SATA drives then set SATA mode to IDE and not raid or AHCI (if you're not using eSATA drives).

Also manually set the voltages to slightly above their rated values so cpu at 1.4volts for example just incase your chip is drooping for some reason or enable LLC and set the ram voltages accordingly.

Have you ran a HDD diagnostic btw?

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Ohhhh I just saw the 5200 is a PCI card not pci express, this will be where the problem is. you need at least a budget dx10 card for Vista to run acceptable on that kind of setup.
 
siumatfung said:
vista requires Direct X 10
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Sure it does :rolleyes:, how come was I running vista x64 with no problems inc heavy gaming for 6 months on release with a geforce 6800GS then ?

You don't need dx10 at all, you don't even need dx9, only for aero... Otherwise any card with vista drivers is fine.

Since when are geforce 6200's directx 10 cards btw ? Because dx10 starts from the gf8 series.
 
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To run vista with all it's visual effects you need:

Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
WDDM Driver
128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware
32 bits per pixel

To run on minimun spec as Vista basic level:

DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory

So I some people are a bit mixed up here, it's DirectX 9 that you should have.

And the 5200 is DX9, so it should be fine.

Maybe try Windows 7? :D
 
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