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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: acschier on March 16, 2009, 02:46:54 PM

Title: Entire computer slowed down after video card changed
Post by: acschier on March 16, 2009, 02:46:54 PM

Recently while gaming my graphics card(880GT) fan gave out. I unplugged the card and looked it over, and put it back in. After doing so my entire computer had slowed down. I thought maybe something had happened to the card so i traded it in for a 9800GT and after uninstalling my old drivers and installing my new ones the problem persisted. I have over 1GB of RAM left. During gaming i cant tell any difference in the speed between the highest and the lowest graphics quality.
AMD Athlon(tm) 64X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
2.21 GHz, 2.00GB of RAM(over 1GB is free)
I have 100 GB of free space on my C drive.
The only Antivirus i have is AVG.
Thanks for your time!

Title: Re: Entire computer slowed down after video card changed
Post by: acschier on March 16, 2009, 10:15:49 PM

Just an update: I have run defrag, disk clean-up, spy bot, adware scans, antivirus scans, Hijack this and i have even shut down all unnecessary applications to no avail, still the same speed as before...

Title: Re: Entire computer slowed down after video card changed
Post by: acschier on March 17, 2009, 02:16:14 PM

I partitioned my drive, formatted and everything is running smoothly now.

Title: Re: Entire computer slowed down after video card changed
Post by: dr_iton on March 17, 2009, 02:28:22 PM

Try to get the newest graphic card driver, what I mean is to update your driver.
Cheers.