Well, my machine isn't the newest, but works fine. Almost. After a few
months after a clean install of WinXP Pro, everything just seems bad.
I'd hate to format everything and start all over, but if no-one has
some help or anything, that's just what I'm gonna do.
This is what I got:
WinXP Pro SP1
Athlon 1,30 GHz
704 Mb memory
Maxtor 4 D040H2
Maxtor 6 Y080L0
Promise Ultra100 (tm) IDE Controller
Mentor USB 2.0 card
mobo (sorry, can't tell, but Asus, with VIA chipsets)
....and stuff:
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
IRQ 9 RADEON 7200 SERIES
IRQ 9 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
IRQ 9 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
IRQ 9 Creative SB Audigy
IRQ 9 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
IRQ 9 ALi PCI to USB Open Host Controller
IRQ 9 ALi PCI to USB Open Host Controller
IRQ 9 ALi PCI to USB Open Host Controller
IRQ 9 Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
IRQ 9 Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
IRQ 9 WinXP Promise Ultra100 (tm) IDE Controller (PDC20265)
I understand that I can't change IRQ's in WinXP, and after I tweaked
the BIOS (tried to force IRQ's) my machine wouldn't boot up.
I'm trying at the moment to record some audio with my audigy 1 card,
and can't do it...
So, basically, if I try to e.g.
-delete a file (any), my machine will freeze for a 5-8 seconds (not
all the time, usually the first file is a pain. After a while, if I
delete some more files, it stutters again)
-record audio, basically everything sucks, I get clicks and pops...
(timing)
-MIDI is practically useless, basically timing errors
-Audio plugins are useless too, any wave audio jumps (timing)
-p2p software usage (much harddrive access) slows machine down a lot
-mouse (USB) jumps around....
And, well, you can figure out the rest. =(
No useless software is running, reboots don't help, I got free disk
space, everything is scandisked/defragmented... No useless (stupid)
services are running and so forth.
I've tried also (the AIW Radeon is not the newest either) to lower
resolution/colors
My (other =) old machine had the usual slow-downs, but it wasn't
nowhere near so difficult to tune as this machine.
What can I do?
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