AMD Opteron 165
Asus A8V Delux Mobo
Nvidia geforce 6800
2gig RAM corsair
Seagate PATA 500gig HDD
According to www.driveragent.com, i have all the correct drivers installed besides an SATA controller or two that vista won't support.
I had been running Vista for about a week and my computer was running well. I came to it in the morning and it was BSOD'ed. I rebooted and Vista was running extremely slow and i noticed that both cores on my processor were running at 100% when i wasn't doing anything. I tried a system restore and that seemed to work for about 30 seconds then when i opened a program and same thing. I ended up reformatting and installing vista again. Basically the same thing was happening, unusable computer. I turned off the aero theme for ***** and giggles and it made the computer run well enough to do some simple tasks.
When i checked my vista hardware score both the "graphics" and "gaming graphics" were at a 1.0. I made sure i had the latest nvidia forceware drivers installed and tried to refresh the score, but the hardware scan wouldn't sucessfully complete. I tried to downgrade the driver because i had recently updated to the newest driver, but that didn't help.
Things my computer does now:
`Proc. gets bogged down by simple things like making a drag box on the desktop. Like, if i click on the desktop and move the mouse around the screen really fast the proc. is at a 90% load.
`Windows Media Center literally takes 5 minutes to go from one screen to the next when i was setting up my 360.
`Random slow downs or proc. spikes when running no programs or simple programs.
`Video viewing is choppy and bogs down proc.
Weird one. The system details says my computer is manufactured by Dell, which is is not.
I know there is a Vista run command that scans your system's hardware and reports failures, but i can't find what the command is.
Thanks for any help
Asus A8V Delux Mobo
Nvidia geforce 6800
2gig RAM corsair
Seagate PATA 500gig HDD
According to www.driveragent.com, i have all the correct drivers installed besides an SATA controller or two that vista won't support.
I had been running Vista for about a week and my computer was running well. I came to it in the morning and it was BSOD'ed. I rebooted and Vista was running extremely slow and i noticed that both cores on my processor were running at 100% when i wasn't doing anything. I tried a system restore and that seemed to work for about 30 seconds then when i opened a program and same thing. I ended up reformatting and installing vista again. Basically the same thing was happening, unusable computer. I turned off the aero theme for ***** and giggles and it made the computer run well enough to do some simple tasks.
When i checked my vista hardware score both the "graphics" and "gaming graphics" were at a 1.0. I made sure i had the latest nvidia forceware drivers installed and tried to refresh the score, but the hardware scan wouldn't sucessfully complete. I tried to downgrade the driver because i had recently updated to the newest driver, but that didn't help.
Things my computer does now:
`Proc. gets bogged down by simple things like making a drag box on the desktop. Like, if i click on the desktop and move the mouse around the screen really fast the proc. is at a 90% load.
`Windows Media Center literally takes 5 minutes to go from one screen to the next when i was setting up my 360.
`Random slow downs or proc. spikes when running no programs or simple programs.
`Video viewing is choppy and bogs down proc.
Weird one. The system details says my computer is manufactured by Dell, which is is not.
I know there is a Vista run command that scans your system's hardware and reports failures, but i can't find what the command is.
Thanks for any help