RE: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems

2006-03-01 Thread nobozoz
ginal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:50 PM To: The Hardware List; undisclosed-recipients: Subject: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems Hey guys, Nice to see the list is still running - I've been a

Re: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems

2006-03-01 Thread kyamnitz
Yeah, Ultra DMA 5 - Ultra100 is enabled on the primary (HDD) channel, and Ultra DMA 2 - Ultra 33 is enabled on the secondary (optical) channel. What do you mean by "autostart"? Do you mean autoplay for the optical drives? Yeah, that's disabled... As far as I can tell, agpgart isn't trying

Re: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems

2006-03-01 Thread Jim Edwards
Have you checked that you are using DMA for your IDE drivers in device Manager and also have you turned on/off autostart? Um, agpgart You might see if that is trying to load during the boot up process and also consider running a old driver cleaner app.

Re: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems

2006-03-01 Thread kyamnitz
Hi again, Yeah, I know it's a pain to get things working properly (I'm so close!), but this system has *so* much setup the way I want it that it would take forever to rebuild... Anyway, background processes include things like NVIDIA firewall, VNC Server, McAfee, SSH Server, FTP Server, m

Re: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems

2006-03-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:46 AM 3/1/2006, warpmedia typed: Dell did fuck up IMO by putting the internal optical drive on same chain as HDD in the laptop, why is a mystery. One less IDE cable they have to use. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805

Re: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems

2006-03-01 Thread Julian Zottl
Hey Kyle! Welcome back! How's the family? Glad to see that the website is taking off! When I've had the problem like you describe below, I usually end up reformatting and putting Windows back on, as it's a PAIN in the ass to get working otherwise. I presume you've looked in your Event Log and

Re: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems

2006-03-01 Thread warpmedia
I get the same on kind of *pause* while gaming and think it has something to do with CD/DVD rom drive access. Don't think it's CPU cycles but a hardware/interrupt thing since I get it on both the laptop (P4/2Ghz) and the desktop (XP2800) here with even older games like C&C generals when scroll

Re: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems

2006-03-01 Thread Stan Zaske
Have you checked Windows Task Manager to see where your CPU cycles are being used most? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Jim & Greg, good to hear from you two. How would I check for the AGPGart issue? Greg, I checked and Cool-and-Quiet was disabled, but I: Disabled CPU Thermal Throttling (wha

Re: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems

2006-03-01 Thread kyamnitz
Hey Jim & Greg, good to hear from you two. How would I check for the AGPGart issue? Greg, I checked and Cool-and-Quiet was disabled, but I: Disabled CPU Thermal Throttling (what does that do? - was at 50%) Upgraded the BIOS Removed the onboard sound and added my Audigy After those 3, stutters

Re: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems

2006-03-01 Thread Jim Edwards
Going from AGP to PCI-E right? Could the agpgart thing be hanging around causing this? Wild guess here. Good to here from you Kyle. :) At 2/28/2006 10:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, Nice to see the list is still running - I've been away for a *long* time :( I applied for vol

Re: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems

2006-02-28 Thread Greg Sevart
uot;The Hardware List" ; Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:50 PM Subject: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems Hey guys, Nice to see the list is still running - I've been away for a *long* time :( I applied for voluntary separation plan at my work yesterday though, so

[H] Hi All / System stutter problems

2006-02-28 Thread kyamnitz
Hey guys, Nice to see the list is still running - I've been away for a *long* time :( I applied for voluntary separation plan at my work yesterday though, so maybe I'll get back into this a little (going back to running my business full time instead of 2 careers)... Anyway, I'm