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ok i just built this thing and now i have a slight problem

specs:
msi nforce2 delta L
msi gf4 ti4200 128mb 8x
2x 256 geil pc3200
mx300 sound card

ok everything is good cept like when i playing a movie or game the thing like 'pauses' every other second for like half a second?
no idea any ideas???
thanx

Does this happen just when a game or movie cd is in the same cdrom/dvdrom?

If so, be sure the cables are fully in or try a new cable, or different drive.

And be sure all drivers are up to date.

well even on counter strike..... a non cd game and when i click on the top bar of any windows such as 'my computer' or 'IE' then i can drag it around in circles and it will still 'pause' every couple second not a long pause but a very slight one but very noticeable... i have all the new drivers also...
thanx!

what kind of processor is it?
how big is your powersupply?
how is the cooling in the rig?

athlon 1700+
thermaltake volcano 6 cu+
4 case fans
400w power enlight

u can rule out the sound car cuz that not it

I had this same problem when I setup my new Nforce 2 system using Win2K. I never resolved it, so I did a clean install of WinXP and installed the latest NForce2 drivers and that seemed to fix the problem.

General suggestions:

- Are you overclocking? If so, don't until you resolve the problem

- This could be an IRQ problem. Pull ALL your cards except the vid card and see if the the problem goes away. If it does, install each card ONE BY ONE. If the problem returns, move the card to a different slot.

- In BIOS make sure that your AGP aperature is set to at least 64Mb or larger (64 is the safe setting). Make sure Video Caching and Video Shadow Ram are disabled (if they're listed)

- You running any uneccesary background apps?

- Make sure you install the latest NForce 2 mobo drivers.

- Bring up Task Manager, click the Processes tab and sort the list by CPU usage by click on the "CPU" header twice. Process with highest CPU usage will now be on top (it's normal for System Idle to be 99% when nothings going on).

Wait for one of these pauses and see what process is using a lot of resources when it happens.

Hope this helps...

Ripped from another forum that deals with stutter problems that may be vid card related:

"stutter problems:
- try to disable all icons in the tray (right bottom corner in default...where the clock is )
- try disabling as many programs as possible (use alt+ctrl+del to see which programs run in background)
- you can set with the task manager the priority of your 3d program up to high (causes some problems, but could also help)
- you can set the hardware acceleration in windows down a notch (fix stutter in 95 %)
- try disabling agp fast writes in bios (some guys say so , I have no certain results with it)
- execute smartguard and look if everything is enabled
- try changing "system" in the device manager from acpi-uni (default win xp, means a motherboard with 2 or more cpu) to acpi (one board with one cpu)..some people have success, some not (me inclusive )
- stutter in opengl is fixed with the latest ati drivers"

Also make sure that your monitor can support whatever refresh rates you're trying to run at.

Also are you trying to oc any? If so try dropping the fsb down a little and see if that helps.

sorry but i still have the stutter..... i tried everything so far posted any more help? i even formatted and reinstalled xp

I've helped a few people with this issue before. Except it was on an Asus A7N8X. Did you by chance install with ACPI? If you did that could very well be causing the problem. Maybe change the HAL or reinstall and don't use ACPI but Standard PC.

Things I can think of....

Disable any system try icons that update all the time (ie. network connection lights)

Perhaps it's a hardrive page file issue. Change your page file to no more then 2.5x (512mb of ram would be 1280mb pagefile) the amount of RAM you have. Also if you have more then one drive or partition, stick the page file on only one of the drives/partitions (not all of them). Make the min and max for the page file the same size making it a static file.

If you have a 7200rpm drive, make sure it's not hidden somewhere in the machine where it would build up lots of heat. I had issues like this under linux when I burned out one of my harddrives.

Perhaps it's a vsync error with your monitor/video. Change the refresh rate to something higher/lower and see if you still have the same probs.

If all else fails take out everything (any cards, extra drives, printer connections, etc) and run the machine w/o these. See if you have the trouble still.. if not put one thing back in at a time til you figure out who done it.

I'll post more if I think of anything...

Originally posted by Busby
I've helped a few people with this issue before. Except it was on an Asus A7N8X. Did you by chance install with ACPI? If you did that could very well be causing the problem. Maybe change the HAL or reinstall and don't use ACPI but Standard PC.

sorry but im not used to those terms can u bring it down a notch for me....pretend ima noob.

lol

Control Panel -> System -> Hardware Tab -> Device Manager

Click the "+" next to Computer, what is listed?

ACPI uniprocessor PC....now wut?