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Hello All,
I built a new system but it's not running as it should and I'm having a very hard time figuring out what is wrong with it .
The configuration is as follows:
Basically what I'm facing is a sluggish/choppy/laggy (somtimes freezing) running performance when doing any multi-tasking/multi-threading action like staring more than one application at the same time or
switching between running apps. I'm getting used to the choppy sound of Windows login wave file as all other processes are loading at the same time.
The same behaviour is consistent across Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 2008 32-bit, and Windows 2008 64-bit. But it's much more obvious in Windows 2008 64-bit.
Following are my observations... hope they would make sense to anyone:
Time taken to Boot to Windows 2008 64x
I've been trying to troubleshoot this system for a couple of weeks now with no success. I checked every single component and all components seem to have good reviews and no known issues. I don't think I'm
alone though, Googling for i7/sluggish/slow returned similar cases but no real solution.
Appreciate if anyone can share his ideas on what the problem could be.
TIA
Obay
I built a new system but it's not running as it should and I'm having a very hard time figuring out what is wrong with it .
The configuration is as follows:
- Gigabyte GA-EX58-EXTREME Motherboard
- Intel Core i7-920 Processor + stock heat sink fan
- Corsair Dominator 6GB DD3 Memory Kit
- Gigabyte GV-N26OC-896H-B (NVIDIA GTX 260)
- 2 X Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 3Gb/s 500GB Hard Drives (RIAD & AHCI disabled)
- LG GH22NS40 22x Super-Multi SATA DVD Burner
- Gigabyte ODIN GT 800W power supply
- Gigabyte iSolo 3134 Case
Basically what I'm facing is a sluggish/choppy/laggy (somtimes freezing) running performance when doing any multi-tasking/multi-threading action like staring more than one application at the same time or
switching between running apps. I'm getting used to the choppy sound of Windows login wave file as all other processes are loading at the same time.
The same behaviour is consistent across Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 2008 32-bit, and Windows 2008 64-bit. But it's much more obvious in Windows 2008 64-bit.
Following are my observations... hope they would make sense to anyone:
- POST takes much longer than it should be. Specially before showing the memory count. Sometimes for as long as 20 seconds
- Playing Company of Heroes (on maximum resolution & AA) is very smoth and lagg free
- Playing Crysis Warhead also doesn't suffer any problems
- CPU Temprature is between 43 when idle to 80 when in heavy load for a long time (Prime95 for 8 hours)...
- Enabling/Disabling EIST & C1E doesn't seem to make any difference
- Changing memory settings (enable XMP, set latency values manualy, etc..) doesn't seem to make any difference
- Simply loading optimized settings from BIOS also doesn't seem to make any difference
- As I'm writing this now in notepad, and posting it on the post page back, it takes a fraction of a second to switch between Chrome & Notepad and I can see Notepad flickering while listing the text lines.
- Once switched for another app for a while, and long as I'm not doing anything else, the app works ok
Time taken to Boot to Windows 2008 64x
- Power Botton --> POST OK beep (00:10 Min) <-- is 10 seocnds normal? is it because of the graphics card booting?
- POST OK beep --> Looking for boot device (00:16 Min) <-- Long delay between shwoing the motherboard model number to listing memory & SATA devices
- Windows Boot Menu --> Windows Progress bar (00:34 Min)
- Windows Progress bar --> Black Screen (00:00 Min)
- Black Screen --> Applying Computer Settings (01:10 Min) <-- This is over 1 min of windows doing nothing / locked somewhere
- Applying Computer Settings --> Login Window (00:29 Min)
- Login Window --> System Ready to Use (00:50 Min)
- Total System boot time from power to ready system (02:29 Min)
I've been trying to troubleshoot this system for a couple of weeks now with no success. I checked every single component and all components seem to have good reviews and no known issues. I don't think I'm
alone though, Googling for i7/sluggish/slow returned similar cases but no real solution.
Appreciate if anyone can share his ideas on what the problem could be.
TIA
Obay