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biga   09-09-2002 at 08:36:46 AM

For some reason any type of motion seems to be jittery. About every 5-7 secs the screen jumps and kinda stutters then is fine until it does it again in 5-7 secs. This problem started completely out of the blue and for no reason that I know of. I have tried everything I can think of: have switched out video cards with the exact same one, changed different drivers, switched moniter modes. This problem is everywhere, when I play DVD's to games.

My Setup is:
Soyo Dragon Ultra Platinum
XP 2100
MSI Geforce 4400 (Detonator ver. 30.00 from MSI)
Windows XP

I have no idea what the problem is, can anyone help me at all?

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rubikian   09-09-2002 at 10:29:42 AM
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Try enabling the DMA. Open up device manager, expand the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Double click on Primary IDE channel. At the advance settings tab, select the transfer mode to be DMA if available for both device 0 and 1. Do the same thing to secondary IDE channel.
A few things you never mention are, is it happenning to games which only run on your CDROM or DVDROM drive and what is your processor speed, your ram and mobo specs?

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biga   09-09-2002 at 10:44:34 AM
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Thanks for the reply. I checked and DMA is enabled for all my IDE devices and still no fix.

The problem occors in any game (I play all my games from the hard drive, without a CD). I also notice the problem when watching DVDs from my DVDROM and when I run 3DMark 2001 SE.

Here are more specs:
My mobo chipset is the VIA KT333
I am using 512 megs of Corsair XMS series DDR 2700 ram
I have 2 IBM 120 GXP 60 gig hard drives in RAID 0
My processor is a Athlon XP 2100 (1.73 ghz)

Any other help is greatly appreciated, thanks again.

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rubikian   09-09-2002 at 11:15:48 AM
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Then try setting the VGA appature size in Bios to 64MB or 128MB. At windows, do you have anything running on the background? At start menu, click on run and type in msconfig to check for your startup whether there are any programs started up which run on the background. And also try to run services.msc from the run menu. Okay here, you need to be careful a bit. Try to stop some services which is not used. Read through it to make sure you know what services that is before you stop it. Some services you stop will disable your printing through printers or maybe unable to connect to internet. So, make sure you know what you are doing here. But if you have any problem, just enable the services back.

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biga   09-09-2002 at 09:43:40 PM
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I checked the services and changed the appature size to 128 and still no improvement.

I guess to better describe the problem it is like the screen temporarily freezes for about .5 a sec and then continues on as smooth as normal until it freezes or stops in EXACTLY 5 seconds then the problem repeats.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by biga on 09/09/02 04:00 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

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rubikian   09-10-2002 at 03:46:50 AM
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What about turning off the ECC in BIOS? ECC will slow down your computer if your RAM is not ECC type. Games slow down could be heat problem as well. You might want to make sure your casing has a good air ventilation…

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biga   09-10-2002 at 06:16:24 PM
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Well I reformated and the problem is fixed. Thanks for all the help though.

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