New CPU & A7A slower than a snail!

[Guest]

I am now not sure if it is my new components or Winblows, but I upgraded to an Athlon 1.33 and an Asus A7A motherboard with 256Mb DDR ram. After a lot of problems getting other memory chips running I thought my problems would be solved with the new DDR memory. Everything looks fine and it's 100% stable, benchmarking tools such as Sisoft Sandra report it as blowing P4's out of the water. My problem comes down to when I go into 3d. 3dmark 2001 reports my system is slower than a celeron 300 system and I don't tend to get more that 7fps in it's tests. On my old A7V Athlon 750 system Unreal was just that, unreal! as smooth as anything. Now it's unplayable. I reinstalled windows when I did the upgrade as I thought this would cause less problems. I changed from Me to 98se as I had had enough of Me's anoying features. I have a Geforce GTS 2 video card which I have installed the 12.6 reference drivers for but this has made no difference from version 6.5. I upgraded my A7A bios from version 1.003 to 1.004 then to 1.005BETA (German FTP site BTW) which solved some other issues just not this speed one. I have installed every windows patch and upgrade under the sun with no joy. Does anyone out there have any ideas how to get the true speed out of my system?

 

[ksoth]

The A7A is a Via chipset, correct? If so, go download the Via 4-in-1 Drivers for the chipset. That should solve the problems. If it is 760 chipset, go download AMDs drivers. That should fix the problem.

"Trying is the first step towards failure."

 

[lamer_gamer]

Noooooo! The A7A is an ALi Magik1 chipset! I'm not sure what would happen if you install the 4 in 1's but I bet it would be very, very bad!!!!!!!

My brain has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down

 

[alph]

Really just a guess. I´ve heard that if a PSU isn´t "big" enough (maybe 300w or less) it can´t provide the videocard with enough juice.

What PSU do you have?

Anyway try removing all non-essential units like the soundcard and nic and see if it helps.

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[Guest]

I have a 350w DEC Power Supply and I have tried booting with everything disconnected to test this theory with no joy. You are correct it is and ALi chip set (I wanted stability, but I thought the speed should still not be too bad!!) )

 

[SERVO]

You did make all the nessesary Bios changes to match your cpu/fsb + agp settings ect.