crappy 9400 performance

[railer]

I can't even play mp3's on this thing without it skipping. Every time the freakin HD comes on, it skips....and the HD is always on! Just defragged the disk, and ran adaware, norton AV, spybot....etc. Once it "catches up", it's usually fine....just frustrating. My desktop never seems to do this. God forbid I open up IE, I'll be skipping for the next 30 seconds. 1 gig of ram btw, and windows media center. I don't expect a fix, but it feels better to get it off my chest. Thanks!

 

[dementedlemur]

Dell has all sorts of crap preloaded on their home systems. Try doing a clean install and downloading the drivers without all the BS programs. If that doesn't fix it, then it could be a bum HD.

 

[Brainonska511]

All the crap preinstalled = cheaper PCs, small price to pay for the usually great deals.

As dementedlemur said, uninstall the junk. If that doesn't work, reformat.

You can always try running the Dell diagnostic software on the hard drive (since that is what you would need to do in order to obtain a replacement). Press F10 when the computer is starting up and select the diagnostic partition.

BTW, what are your system specs?

 

[railer]

seyz my hd is in PIO mode for some reason. It acts like it.

It's a core duo 2 ghz
gig ram
60 gig 7200 rpm hd
geforce 7900gs

As you can see it's not a piece of crap. Just pisses me off sometimes. I do have a spare 80 gig 5400 rpm clean drive that i could slap in. Thanks for all replies.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: railer
seyz my hd is in PIO mode for some reason.

That's why it is slow. Set it to DMA and it should be much faster.

If it won't switch to DMA, delete the hard disk controller from the device manager and restart the computer.

 

[mattBR]

things to do when you get a dell

format
intall a fresh copy of win xp

it just gets you away from most of troubles.

 

[railer]

Thanks Brain....

I knew it shouldn't be in PIO, but I probably wouldn't have thought to delete the controller.

That worked like a champ.

Now when I'm playing Q3, and my AV kicks on....I don't even notice! Sweet!

Thanks again.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: railer
Thanks Brain....

I knew it shouldn't be in PIO, but I probably wouldn't have thought to delete the controller.

That worked like a champ.

Now when I'm playing Q3, and my AV kicks on....I don't even notice! Sweet!

Thanks again.

Glad to have helped.