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re: Upgraded Computer....but it's slower!!
Wednesday, August 6, 2003 at 7:06 pm
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Posted by Ricky (84 messages posted)


DId you install the Video drivers from the disk you got with your card, or did you let windows load the default drivers? This may or may not be the issue.


On Wednesday, August 6, 2003 at 6:06 pm, Leif wrote:
>I have a question about Things
>that slow down system bootup
:


>
>I have a huge problem....I upgraded my system from:
>Athlon XP 2200/ FSB266
>ESC Elitegroup K7S5A Motherboard
>1 GIG SDRam/ PC-133 FSB
>Quadro 2 PRO/ 64 MB RAM
>ATA 20 + 40 GIG HD
>250W power supply
>
>to:
>
>Athlon XP 2200/ FSB266
>ESC Elitegroup K7S5A Motherboard
>1gig DDR Ram/ PC-266 FSB
>MSI Geforce FX 5600/ 256 MB RAM
>ATA 20 + 40 GIG HD
>500W power supply
>
>both on Win XP
>
>and not only is the boot slower ...but MAYA renders slower ...and overall performance
>is slower...except games of course...allthough my 3dmark is about 7800+=...which
>should be a lot higher from what I've read...also 512 of ram performs the same or
>better than 1 gig...I realy don't get it....also I've defraged the drives and I also
>ran windows washer and ad-ware 6 plus norton antivirus....
>HEEEELP!!!please!
>The boot used to take about 30 sec. and noe it takes about a 1and1/2 min.....I have
>installed 4 games though...is that it?...but it syill shouldn't affect the windows
>performance only boot...thanks in advance!
>
>


Written in response to:
Upgraded Computer....but it's slower!! (Leif: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 at 6:06 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Upgraded Computer....but it's slower!! (Ricky: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 at 7:12 pm)
*re: Upgraded Computer....but it's slower!! (Leif: Thursday, August 7, 2003 at 12:43 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Upgraded Computer....but it's slower!! (Leif: Wed, Aug 6, 2003, 6:06 pm)
-re: Upgraded Computer....but it's slower!! (Ricky: Wed, Aug 6, 2003, 7:06 pm)
*re: Upgraded Computer....but it's slower!! (Ricky: Wed, Aug 6, 2003, 7:12 pm)
*re: Upgraded Computer....but it's slower!! (Leif: Thu, Aug 7, 2003, 12:43 am)
-re: Upgraded Computer....but it's slower!! (Mark: Thu, Aug 7, 2003, 1:01 pm)
-re: Upgraded Computer....but it's slower!! (Leif: Thu, Aug 7, 2003, 10:44 pm)
-re: Upgraded Computer....but it's slower!! (Paul: Wed, Feb 11, 2004, 12:46 am)
*re: Upgraded Computer....but it's slower!! (chillyman: Thu, Nov 10, 2005, 8:43 pm)
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