Can a SSD boot drive cause problems with an older PC?

[kahoona]

I have recently changed from XP Pro to Win 7 64. I added 8g of new ram and switched my C drive to a Samsung 840 EVO 250g SSD Two problems cropped up that I have not been able to fix. I have tried a lot!. I wondered if the wonderful speed of the SSD overloads something on the MB. These problems did not happen before the upgrades.I may not be the only one to experience this so I hope this helps others too.
The first problem is that a number of websites that have a lot of information in an extended page format like Neatorama hang when loading. They may display the hourglass. The browser is useless until they are fully loaded. Up to 80% of CPU is required instantly and after that 30%. Ram runs near 1.8g. This happens even with flash and other add-ons disabled and all possible tweaks done. It seems to be more of a matter of content loading too fast for the browser to handle or the system not setting aside some resources to allow normal use while loading. This also happens to a slightly lesser extent with Explorer. Other programs are usable when this is happening. Before the upgrades these sites loaded nore slowly but browsers remained functional and I might have to wait for a picture or video to load now and then.
Problem 2 happens when I am playing music or videos. These are kept on separate, regular data drives. Playback happens without problems unless I do one of these things. Transfer data between data drives or between folders within a drive. Modify metadata or delete music within Winamp's Local Music Library. I can open a browseror load software. I can open Ccleaner but if I run the cleaner the problem happens when it deletes the recycle bin. It all seems to point to file transfer. File transfer happens faster now. Could it be overloading my system with the new speed?
Can the speed of the SSD do this and if so can I slow down those parts of is just a touch?
Could it be the Win 7 conversion?

Here is some info
2.40 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Not hyper-threaded
Board: Intel Corporation D975XBX2 AAD53350-508
ASUS Xonar DX Audio Device

 

[Doramius]

I take it you did a clean install of Win7 x64. Check your page file. set it back to default size if it has been changed. Many people change it with regular HDDs, but with efficient SSDs, it is not necessary. Also, if it's webpages, check your router DNS, and even try flushing the DNS on your system.

[click start, type cmd in search field & open commandwindow, type ipconfig /flushdns]

Can you provide screenshots of Task manager performance & process tabs?

 

[kahoona]

I take it you did a clean install of Win7 x64. Check your page file. set it back to default size if it has been changed. Many people change it with regular HDDs, but with efficient SSDs, it is not necessary. Also, if it's webpages, check your router DNS, and even try flushing the DNS on your system.

[click start, type cmd in search field & open commandwindow, type ipconfig /flushdns]

Can you provide screenshots of Task manager performance & process tabs?

Hope these screens come through. I labeled some events on the performance ones. I have only the usual items that I need to use running. All the running processes ran before the upgrades with no problem at all. Yes. Clean install on Win 7. Reset the page file as instructed but no change. Just flushed DNS as per your instructions. Don't know how to flush DNS on Comcast router. It is interesting that the one thing that disturbs the audio in both music and video files most is file transfers but the file transfers cause no activity on task manager. Thanks for taking an interest in this.
Rob

 

[kahoona]

I have found the answer. It was actually tucked away in an answer to a different topic here
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2184682/odd-question-matrix-marvell-speed.html
in which The Stig suggested that I put my data drives and my boot drives on separate controllers rather than all on the same one. It seemed counter intuitive to me at the time but after trying everything I could to speed up my system I moved my boot drive to the other controller and just like that it was fixed. I can now run just about everything I have at once with no drag on the music and no more hung Firefox. The miserable hourglass is gone. Thanks Stig. I am posting this so anyone else with the same problem can try it (if they have 2 different SATA controllers that is.