Recent content by Jakey007

Does anyone know why this system could be laggin'. It's acting really sluggish on boot, slow to open programs, just general delays with all programs and windows. It is far slower than my old Athlon XP 2600. Athlong 64 3500+ Asus AV8 Deluxe 2 120Gig Segate's RAID 0 (with onboard promise IDE)...

i realized that after posting, sorry for the noob comment....so which one exhibits the least ghosting....for games/DVD's any comments?? THX

I'm looking for a LCD that will function both for internet/word/business use but also will be able to play high FPS games such as Counter-strike, UT2003, etc. and play DVD's without ghosting. I'm looking at a 19" LCD, and narrowed it down to two: 1. STYLEPRO Series 19 Flat Panel LCD SDM-S91 2...

thanks for your response, i am pretty sure that it is the drive too....the rest of the system and apps. are pretty stable. I'm am using WinXP pro....i ran burnintest on the drive, and it was bringing up reading errors only with DVD's in the drive. the test ran fine with normal CD's, CD-R's...

I am having trouble playing DVDs. I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe, with 512 Ram, and Atholon XP 2600, GeForce 4 Ti4200, Sony's DVD-ROM DDU1621 on it's own IDE Channel with Ultra DMA 2 enabled. I have a sound blaster audigy with SPDIF digital out going to a pre-amp, amp and speakers. when i try...

I used msinfo32.exe to check my IRQ's, none of them are conflicting, just sharing, however, I cannot think of any other reason as to why the mouse is jumpy when the computer is under small loads. Any other ideas?

I'm using a USB mouse, and there seems to be a IRQ conflict between the NVIDIA PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller and 3Com Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller, both on IRQ of 20. Also, there is a conflict between a Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller and a OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host...

I just finished a new system: Asus A7N8X with AMD Athlon XP 2600+ w/ 333FSB, 512MB DDR2700, WindowsXP with service pack 1. Everything seems to be stable, however, my mouse has been rather jerky when doing processor intensive applications. Even just moving between different windows will cause...