Performance

GreyRaven · Post by **GreyRaven** » 18 Jul 2003, 12:44

Hey people, ´sup
<BR>I got a few problems with the new Mecer PC my dad bought a few weeks ago. For some reason it often seems to be slower than our old 600Mhz Athlon, despite the fact that its a 2.4Ghz P4 with twice as much RAM.
<BR>Also, after I´ve been using it for a while, the screen will get all these thin orange stripes on it, at which point i can see the mouse moving in background, but i can´t click on anything, and then the screen says no signal. I have to restart a few times to fix it. We got 256mb RAM, geForce 4 MX 440 in place of onboard, XP home, and we swapped the original screen for an Acer TFT screen. We´re not using DVI.
<BR>anyone got any ideas what´s wrong?

Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 18 Jul 2003, 12:46

Check that your Geforce 4MX is seated properly, it sounds like it might be loose - especially if the monitor says "no signal found" that means its not getting input from the GPU.

GreyRaven · Post by **GreyRaven** » 19 Jul 2003, 22:24

Thanks, I seem to have gotten it fixed. I downloaded the NVidia drivers to replace the ones from the CD, and everything seems fine now. Strangely, it seems to have fixed the other performance issues too.

LordRage · Post by **LordRage** » 20 Jul 2003, 18:28

Dr_Kellogg · Post by **Dr_Kellogg** » 20 Jul 2003, 23:23

My friends got a similar problem. He´s got a 900 with 256 RAM but its slow as hell. My old 400mhz runs betta. I told him he should just format (His machines been trashed real bad by some virus, so nothing really works) and then start from scratch with up to date drivers. What do you think?
<BR>PS He´s got a PCI graphics card