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  • 08-08-2008 1:49 AM

    • Iain
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    Running Slow

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    I've had this PC for a friggin' month, not even that... About three hours ago I had to reinstall Vista becaue I got some Trojan from a Torrent, lol. Instead of the 32 Bit version I used last time, I'm using the 64 bit version and WOW is it slow... Oh ya, that and World of Warcraft still gives me the same Memory Read error... wtf man.
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  • 08-08-2008 2:27 AM In reply to

    • Grahf
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    Re: Running Slow

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    You probably have horrible drivers. Make sure you have the most up to date releases from the manufacturers' websites.

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  • 08-08-2008 10:54 AM In reply to

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    Re: Running Slow

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     Have you tested your memory yet?  Oh yeah, and make sure you test the voltages from your PSU and test your hard drive, I've seen both cause really slow issues when it seemed they were working fine.

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  • 08-08-2008 12:31 PM In reply to

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    Re: Running Slow

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    I just checked some stuff in DX Diag and my CPU is underclocked.... For some reason the new install of Vista isn't reading my CPU at the correct speed...
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  • 08-08-2008 5:41 PM In reply to

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    run something taxing on you cpu and open cpuz and see if the speed jumps up. it could be the power management.

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  • 08-08-2008 6:06 PM In reply to

    • Iain
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    Turns out one of the RAM DIMMs on my Motherboard is bad... I hope it's a localize phenomenon and doesn't continue, or else I'm really screwed... lol Well, everything is going NICELY... For now at least, lol. Thanks for the help guys!
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  • 08-09-2008 3:44 PM In reply to

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    Well scratch that... I don't know which ones broken, the RAM or the MoBo... It appears to be the RAM but I'll see if I can get another stick in there to see if it's really the MoBo... My friend threw out the boxes too, so an RMA is out of the question.
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  • 08-14-2008 11:23 AM In reply to

    • FSeven
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    Re: Running Slow

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    Did you check to see if maybe you need to flash to an updated BIOS?

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