Howdy All,
I am new to the forum and an over glorified button pusher, just dangerous enough to get into trouble. But, I have built a new machine and I have a question for the group. It is a top of the line machine, but when I was running it yesterday, it was running slow and I went into the task manager to see what was going on and found that the CPU was running at 73%. I had no open programs (Applications), And looking at the Processes tab, There were a few items that were going back and forth with usage. I have a Hyper Threaded Chipset, so I don't know if that is something to look at, but even when I am looking at the desktop I seem to get a slowdown when I click on the start menu. I will list my system at the end of this message.
Does anyone know what might be the problem?
I am using the onboard sound, LAN etc. The only card I have in the system is my FX. Has anyone seen a slowdown with the Abit mobo?
I have BF1942 installed and even at stock settings (800x600x32) it is running slow, that shouldn't be the case.
And finally if anyone has a list of the processes that should be running on this machine I would appreciate it.
SliderSchr
System:
MOBO - Abit IC7-G Max II
VIDEO - Gainward 5900 Ultra 1600 XP
CPU - P4 3.0C
CASE - Antec PLUS1080AMG w/ Antec 430W True Power
CDRW/DVD(+/-)R/RW - Pioneer DVR-106BK (On IDE Channel 1 as Master because this was the only place it would work)
CDRW - Plextor 52x32x52 PlexWriter Premium E-IDE (IDE Channel 2 Master)
HDD - Western Digital 120GB SATA WD1200JD (On the Add on SATA Channel)
MEMORY - CORSAIR XMS TWINX1024-4000PT
HSF - Zalman CNPS7000A-CU
OS - WinXP Pro