msukdog Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 My computer has been running sluggishly ever since I put winXP on. My mouse is kinda jerky, and I have had a few nvdisp.dll blue screens. Here is my configuration: P3 1GHz 512 MB RAM Maxtor 60 GB ATA-100 Tyan Trinity 400 - VIA Apollo Pro133A Chipset Geforce 2 MX 400 w/ XP supplied drivers Maxtor ATA 100 controller card (promise drivers) SB Live 3com 3c905c KB & mouse connected through Belkin Omniview 4 port KVM various USB devices connected to a powered USB hub: 1. intel webcam 2. canon multipass printer 3. dazzle dvc 80 vid capture device 4. Lexar media reader Anyone have any clues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 Did you do a clean install on the NTFS file system. XP is actually more responsive. You should also UPDATE ALL DRIVERS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cYpHeR- Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 try defragging... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted February 12, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 12, 2002 do a sisoft sandra 2002 benchmark on your HD. Oh and keep the default XP drivers for your HD Controller - the maxtor ata controller. I had that card and i used XPs default drivers and it worked better than any other driver i used. In sisoft i got 25020 points which is better than normal ATA-100 7200RPM drives. Just use the default drivers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msukdog Posted February 12, 2002 Author Share Posted February 12, 2002 Yes, I did a clean install... I tried to update to nvidia reference drivers, and I got constant blue screens, so I rolled back to the one winXP supplied. As for other drivers I have the VIA 4 in 1 drivers installed, and updated printer drivers. And of course I already defragged :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 if its a clean format+install it will be effectively defragged anyway u n0bs :) fragmentation occurs when you start removing then adding lots of programs, resuming downloads, etc. A freshly installed OS should have a almost pefectly un-fragmented filesystem, *especially* with ntfs! Beware the via 4 in 1's. Try rolling back to the standard drivers. I was getting sluggish mouse movement when doing anything involving copying data to / from either cdroms. Got seriously mad with it, tried getting rid of all traces of via 4 in 1, but couldnt to the point of fixing the problem, so in the end I reformatted and resintalled. Now its smoooooooooooth, no more jerky mouse whilst watching dvds via my realmagic hollywood card on my tv. I vote reformat,reinstall, and DONT INSTALL VIA 4 in 1s!!!!!!! :dead: :dead: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissssssss Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 I installed the VIA drivers, and they made absolutely no difference at all. Seems like there's no point using them anymore if you have XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 The 4 in 1's i'm using are awesome!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendanWOR Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 It's happened a lot to me before too. I've just had to reinstall XP, and everything works fine. Which means when I install XP, I usually need to do it twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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