How can I tell if I a CMOS setting is wrong? Everything looks fine in the BIOS (as far as I can tell), but my PC is...well, let's just say, I'm typing this in Notepad, and I had about 10 words typed before the first character showed up. And it took several minutes for Notepad to come up. I am having these issues with all my programs, pretty much all the time. Everything is loading very slowly. No other issues whatsoever (except that I have to manually connect to the Internet even though it's set to automatic, but that's trivial). I have tested everything I know to test, the hardware is all fine, no viruses or spyware or anything of the sort. So perhaps a CMOS setting is wrong? How can I tell?
CPU core speed is 3116.9 MHz, but the rest of the fields below it in CPU-Z (i.e., Multiplyer) are blank. Pc Probe II says that my CPU speed is 3292 RPM is and my RAM speed is 667 on both 2 gb sticks, however, my Bios says the speed is 300-sometihing for my RAM. Do these numbers indicate a problem?
Someone did suggest that perhaps I did not F6 the AHCI before I installed the OS...not sure if I did or not, however, the hard drive doesn't require me to do so and the BIOS says, "When SATA is configured as ACHI in BIOS, only SATA port 1-4 can be detected. Ensure to install the AHCI driver to detect and use SATA port 1-6 in AHCI mode under OS." I gather from this that everything is fine with these settings, since all my Sata ports are showing and it's a very simple setup: 1 hard drive, 1 floppy, and 1 IDE DVD burner. (However, before the other hard drive started making unsettling noises, I had it setup as RAID...could this be the problem? My hard drive shows as E rather than C).
Other than updating all my drivers (since the last time I did this, I had to RMA my motherboard so they could flash it again), another clean install, I've tried everything anyone suggested so far here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/352626-31-performing-excessive-clocking#t2650006 Also there's more background info there such as numbers and stats. I would appreciate any help ruling out these issues I've listed here so I know to move on to the other 3 possibilies that are within my level of expertise, but are more drastic or would require me to purchase more hardware.
(In case I didn't mention it, the issue I think I may be having is that a cmos setting is wrong so the ram or cpu or the hard drive is running wrong as a result, I just don't know how to tell if this is the issue!)
Edit: Forgot to paste in the only 2 BIOS settings I was not sure about.
I have CPU prefetching enabled, should I have it disabled?
I have C1E Configuration disabled, should I enable it?
CPU core speed is 3116.9 MHz, but the rest of the fields below it in CPU-Z (i.e., Multiplyer) are blank. Pc Probe II says that my CPU speed is 3292 RPM is and my RAM speed is 667 on both 2 gb sticks, however, my Bios says the speed is 300-sometihing for my RAM. Do these numbers indicate a problem?
Someone did suggest that perhaps I did not F6 the AHCI before I installed the OS...not sure if I did or not, however, the hard drive doesn't require me to do so and the BIOS says, "When SATA is configured as ACHI in BIOS, only SATA port 1-4 can be detected. Ensure to install the AHCI driver to detect and use SATA port 1-6 in AHCI mode under OS." I gather from this that everything is fine with these settings, since all my Sata ports are showing and it's a very simple setup: 1 hard drive, 1 floppy, and 1 IDE DVD burner. (However, before the other hard drive started making unsettling noises, I had it setup as RAID...could this be the problem? My hard drive shows as E rather than C).
Other than updating all my drivers (since the last time I did this, I had to RMA my motherboard so they could flash it again), another clean install, I've tried everything anyone suggested so far here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/352626-31-performing-excessive-clocking#t2650006 Also there's more background info there such as numbers and stats. I would appreciate any help ruling out these issues I've listed here so I know to move on to the other 3 possibilies that are within my level of expertise, but are more drastic or would require me to purchase more hardware.
(In case I didn't mention it, the issue I think I may be having is that a cmos setting is wrong so the ram or cpu or the hard drive is running wrong as a result, I just don't know how to tell if this is the issue!)
Edit: Forgot to paste in the only 2 BIOS settings I was not sure about.
I have CPU prefetching enabled, should I have it disabled?
I have C1E Configuration disabled, should I enable it?
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