Posts by g2tl

Quote: Originally Posted by galahad05 Video cards are supposed to be able to share IRQs...but I've seen some have problems with it--both Nvidia and ATI cards can have this problem. And, here's the kicker: it's been...

I'll probably try formatting and then call up dell, even though this one never had any warranty Just in case anyone is interested in this weird situation, there's another oddity I just discovered (don't know why I didn't know about this...

Quote: Originally Posted by galahad05 Event Viewer (or Alert viewer) would show what the OS thinks is going on. Though I admit it's hard to decipher sometimes. Other than it possibly being...

Quote: Originally Posted by DELL-Machina Basically its windows on a CDrom (No HDD needed) with testing tools however ever after I swapped out my desktop IDE cable and used a different DVD Drive I had the exact same...

Quote: Originally Posted by DELL-Machina So I went ahead to research this further guess what. My desktop is NOW exhibiting the EXACT same issue regardless of a format and swapped parts. Apparently its the motherboard so...

Quote: Originally Posted by galahad05 I swear this sounds like either an IRQ issue, video display driver issue, audio driver issue, or video player problem. Remind me again: does this periodic slowdown occur no...

Quote: Originally Posted by DELL-Machina So I went ahead to research this further guess what. My desktop is NOW exhibiting the EXACT same issue regardless of a format and swapped parts. Apparently its the motherboard so...

Oh and I thought the audio problem was solved but it hasn't audio files still lag like video files

Quote: Originally Posted by galahad05 Try to have this (task manager check) when you see the spiky slowdowns while playing videos. nothing unusual just "taskmgr" and "system"

Quote: Originally Posted by galahad05 Damn. Well, did you manage to use the process->cpu usage task manager (see post #24)? This could still show a misbehaving program periodically "kicking" the...