jerky performance

hardc0re_tid · 7 Dec 2006 at 17:35

recently i have noticed my system performance being a tad jerky now and again. i say jerky but really i mean the mouse cursor would freeze for appx. half a second now and again and folders take that bit longer to open/appear

i have put it down to 1 of 2 things, 1) my overclock, or 2) the fact that i am running a Riva TNT2 32mb PCI graphics card at 1440x900 @ 32bit :eek:

thing is my OC is Orthos/Prime/TAT? stable (is TAT used to test stabability) and has been fine since i built the system just over 1 month ago

ill be getting my 7900GTO installed at xmas, but untill then i cant find out if it is my GPU or my OC.

TBH im thinking its more the Graphics card, what do you reckon?

hardc0re_tid · 8 Dec 2006 at 11:40

no ideas then?

modo77 · 8 Dec 2006 at 11:54

Whats your cpu usage like when this happens?
Try just taking the oc off just to make sure its not the clock?

Podfather · 8 Dec 2006 at 13:53

Try reinstalling and uninstalling some apps, if the above post don't work then do a system restore.

hardc0re_tid · 9 Dec 2006 at 15:06

after removing the OC and reverting back to defualt settings in BIOS, it seems fine now but thats not to say it was the OC?

i assume it could also be down to the fact that im using an old slow PCI card and the processor is procesing the info too quick and graphics card is bottlenecking the performance?

BEn_2600+ · 9 Dec 2006 at 23:09

Dont know if it will help but i had the exact same problem and i thought i had knackered my chip, im running it with a X1800XT which is PCI-E and the problem only happened when overclocked. I download a trial of Windows Pro 64-bit Edition and its fine now, dont know whether it was the format which fixed it or because im now on 64-bit, but either way its a lot better

Ben

hardc0re_tid · 10 Dec 2006 at 13:30

have heard negative things about xp 64bit such as the lack of drivers.

once i get my 7900GTO installed ill be able to find out what the problem is, i have taken off the overclock and all seems to be fine now.

BEn_2600+ · 10 Dec 2006 at 16:46

Yeah its driver support isnt as good as 32-bit but i was lucky because all my devices had a 64bit driver release

You will just have to wait till you get yur 7900GTO installed and see if its any better

Ben

hardc0re_tid · 12 Dec 2006 at 11:03

update: the problem still seems to be here but its not as noiticeable, only slight mouse cursor stuttering. it only seems to happen when opening a 'window' eg my docs or IE7. surely this would point to the graphics card (still using the Riva btw) as the card has to process the information

Uhtred · 12 Dec 2006 at 11:05

you aren't using bluetooth on that system are you?

riddlermarc · 12 Dec 2006 at 11:16

Sometimes my work laptop will switch the ide channel transfer mode form UDMA5 to PIO, this slows things down and causes mouse stuttering.. I have to delete the Primary IDE Channel in Device Manager and reboot for it to correct itself :rolleyes:

hardc0re_tid · 12 Dec 2006 at 11:35

Zap said:
you aren't using bluetooth on that system are you?

nope, just LAN via RJ45

riddlermarc said:
Sometimes my work laptop will switch the ide channel transfer mode form UDMA5 to PIO, this slows things down and causes mouse stuttering.. I have to delete the Primary IDE Channel in Device Manager and reboot for it to correct itself

ill have a go at that. im not sure but i think this all started happening when i put my IDE ATA133 Maxtor drive in along side my WD Caviar SATA drive to retrieve files, would this have affected it?

The Maxtor IDE drive has been put back in the other machine now and the problem still persists

EDIT - crap! i cant do that as my DVD RW is on my Primary IDE and I dont have a secondary IDE channel

wannabedamned · 12 Dec 2006 at 11:41

hardc0re_tid said:
nope, just LAN via RJ45

ill have a go at that. im not sure but i think this all started happening when i put my IDE ATA133 Maxtor drive in along side my WD Caviar SATA drive to retrieve files, would this have affected it?

The Maxtor IDE drive has been put back in the other machine now and the problem still persists

EDIT - crap! i cant do that as my DVD RW is on my Primary IDE and I dont have a secondary IDE channel

I have exactly the same trouble... Bad stuttering performance. Why? Because i've put sata drives in my PC

Terrible. I'm not 100% sure of the cause yet, I told a friend last night, And he suggests my CPU is struggling for power. I personally think my onboard sata controller is the problem.

Hope you sort it, you can give me a heads up

Or vice versa.

I've just bought a PCI 4 port sata controller card, Which i'm waiting for to be delivered.

hardc0re_tid · 14 Dec 2006 at 09:11

wannabedamned said:
Terrible. I'm not 100% sure of the cause yet, I told a friend last night, And he suggests my CPU is struggling for power. I personally think my onboard sata controller is the problem.

Hope you sort it, you can give me a heads up Or vice versa.

i have the CPU at 2.8 on stock volts (maybe thats my problem but others have the same setup as me with no probs), it has been fine since i built the system, but its only recently it has been like this, maybe due to the amount of crap installed.

done a format lastnight, didnt get to play about much to see if problem came back though. if it seems fine im going make a ghost image

has your problem been solved with the SATA card?