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Anonymous   10-25-2001 at 11:47:37 AM

I have posted this on two differnt boards as I'm not sure where it belongs.

I have a problem with a PC I built (and I have built a lot) in that I get very bad video tearing and jerky framerate, although games, emulators always run at max FPS.

My spec:
Intel P4 1.4
128Mb RIMM
GeForce II Pro 64Mb
IBM 20Gb IDE HDD
SB Live 1024
Win 98 SE

I originally had an Elsa GeForce MX, so I upgraded to the Creative card, this made no change.

I have the latest version of direct X, and latest GeForce Pro drivers and I have reinstalled everything from scratch twice.

I'm at a bit of a loss as I dont know if its a software problem or hardware, maybe its the configuration with the mobo & chip? although the PC see's the corect cpu, ram ect.

Is there any known issues within my config or is there something different between installing a PIII and a P4 that unless told would not have relised?

A big thanks for any help on this :)

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girish   10-25-2001 at 07:31:33 PM
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reinstall the driver. you already had your older driver, so new drivers dint replace all the files. Here is how you do it:
1. Delete the all the display card inf files from <font color=green>c:\windows\inf\other</font color=green> directory.
2. Now go to Device Manager <font color=green>My Computer</font color=green>-><font color=green>Properties</font color=green>-><font color=green>Device Manager</font color=green>-><font color=green>Display Adapter</font color=green>-> remove all the entries here. Now reboot.

Windows will detect the card and ask for the drivers, since you have deleted the inf file from the inf dir, you will need to point it to the driver dir. Install the drivers and reboot.

Hope this helps.

girish

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charliec2uk   10-25-2001 at 07:53:50 PM
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You might want to check that your disk drvies are using DMA as opposed to PIO transfer system. You can change this by checking the properties of you EIDE channels in Device Manager.

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Anonymous   10-26-2001 at 10:12:53 AM
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I whent into device manager and look at the disk drive's settings the DMA box was unchecked so I checked it, but unfortunattly this has made no difference :(

I must say though, I did a full PC test at a site called PC-Pitstop and it reports that my HDD is only running at 50%, it didn't really say why, but I will look into it.

Thanks for your advice.

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Anonymous   10-26-2001 at 10:15:05 AM
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Thanks girish,

I'll try this tonight :)

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