Incredible Frustration

[filkertom]

So, I saved all my data, and I had an already-installed and configured hard disk to go into the system. All good, right?

Except that the last time the drive had been used was December 2003, when I got the new motherboard and the Athlon XP 2600+. So some of the drivers really needed to be updated. Especially the video driver.

Which led to six hours of hell last night, and a couple more this morning.

Last week, playing Quake 3 Arena, I was getting around 90 FPS with this hardware, these drivers. Now? 45-55 at best. I also seem to be having a lot more hard drive access, all the time, and it's slowing everything the fuck down. It's taking five minutes to reboot -- or, more precisely, less than a minute to reboot, and then about four minutes to finally quit trying to access every goddamn sector of the hard drive.

First thing is going through processes and services. (Why do they say you can shut this shit off when it turns itself the fuck back on!?) Then a defrag of my new/old C: drive. After that, I suspect, comes melancholy, alcoholism, and bitter recrimination.

Comments

[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

*hugs* trust me, dear, the computer industry is so accustomed to bitter recrimination from their users by now that they always welcome more, and quite frankly expect it. why else would they add stupid shit to the really cool stuff in the first place? it's a damned cunning ploy to make us hate them.

[thingunderthest.livejournal.com]

Hopefully your cache controller survived the dying.

I know I have had similar problems with some of the IBM IDE drivers that have crappy performance before you install their drive orverlay stuff.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

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Thanks for reminding me. I went through part of this bullshit yesterday with having forgotten AGP drivers. (I wonder if getting the newer ones of those could be causing a problem...?) I forgot the IDE drivers too. Back soon.

[denali1.livejournal.com]

And depending on the board, chipset drivers as well. (Although, hopefully, your AGP driver was bundled with those...)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

No real improvement. I've got the newest AGP and IDE drivers now. Same ol'. I've literally lost half my graphics card speed. NOT HAPPY. And there's a lot of disk access goin' on, and I know it's not the HD RAM cache because I only have one and it's not on that drive.

[denali1.livejournal.com]

WHat brand and model of video card is this?

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I'm not an expert and cannot make useful suggestions... just offer sympathy. *hugs*