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Hardware "lag" in i9300...am I the only one?

post #1 of 11
6/6/05 at 10:47pm
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Hey, all. I've been pretty psyched w/ my i9300, had it about 2 months now, and I have noticed recently one strange thing that kills it for me.

Maybe I'm the only one, but after playing a game like farcry and the like, I quit into the main desktop. I could double-click on anything and it would show the progress curser for a moment and nothing would happen. At this point I ctrl-alt-delete to the taskmanager, which also does not come up...either... then after like a minute or two, it all just launches at the same time.

I know it sounds wierd but I've been trying to figure this out for a while. I love the i9300, but what the hell is this "lag"?

-sqrl
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post #2 of 11
6/6/05 at 10:49pm
Doesn't happen to me. Do you still have all the Dell bloatware or did you format the system after you received it?

Maybe you need to defrag.
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post #3 of 11
6/6/05 at 10:51pm
Mine does not do it either. Try the those advised in the above post.
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post #4 of 11
6/6/05 at 11:21pm
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yeah, reformatted. It didnt do it at first, but recently when I used shareaza for a while...its a little wierd.
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post #5 of 11
6/6/05 at 11:26pm
my Inspiron 9300 comes tommorow!!

sorry for hijaking this thread..
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post #6 of 11
6/6/05 at 11:28pm
You answered your own question probably. Who knows what you got from a P2P program. Boot in safemode, do a full virus and spyware scan on your system. Odds are you might have to just format to get the performance you once enjoyed.
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post #7 of 11
6/6/05 at 11:47pm
One thing you may want to try. Reinstall video card drivers. I was having a similar problem when I would play Guild Wars. I had 76.50 drivers loaded, I reinstalled 76.45 over them and it seemed to fix the problem.
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post #8 of 11
6/7/05 at 4:39am
I had this with all my laptops. It is normal. But not 2 minutes. More like 20 seconds.
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post #9 of 11
6/7/05 at 5:18am
I get this too, I put it down to a massive amount of virtual memory used by Farcry that needs to be freed back up. Due to having a slower disk and plenty of other tasks going on I think it just gets confused. I'm banking on more memory solving the problem.
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post #10 of 11
6/7/05 at 7:18am
Happens to me too, whenever i come out of a game it takes a while to open up anything else for a couple of seconds. I had a 3.2g 9100 before this and no such problem and so just thought it was natural for my 9300 which uses speedstep to do this?
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post #11 of 11
6/7/05 at 7:36am
You may have used a spyware remover that didn't completely get rid of the spyware entries, which makes windows have lots of issues.

P2P other than BitTorrent is risky. You got burnt. Good job.
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