a month back i swapped my old ASUS A7N266VM (nforce 1) with my sis's BIOSTAR M7NCG 400 bios rev 7.2(nforce 2). n i thought everything was hunky-dory but was i wrong!! i added 512mb kingston ram so the total becomes 1 gig with the first 512mb ram being a hynix, the ram's working in a dual channel setup (whatever tht means or does).
i use winxp pro., with the asus mb the number of system processes running were bout 21 after the swap the number has shot up to 37. whenever i start a application (even windows explorer or notepad) the cpu usage goes up to 20-50% which is unusually high. the system is working a lot slower than the old 512mb config. sometimes while playing winamp there is a crackling noise which never occured with on asus, i know there's no problem with the audigy 2.
windows installed without a hitch. norton 2003 is regularly updated n the firewall (sygate personal firewall pro 5.5 build 2710) seems to work properly.
there is no legit reason for the awful performance. i have not tried playing a game yet, prolly becoz the system's drivin me nuts. plz help, any sorta help will do.
PLZZ PLZZ.
i use winxp pro., with the asus mb the number of system processes running were bout 21 after the swap the number has shot up to 37. whenever i start a application (even windows explorer or notepad) the cpu usage goes up to 20-50% which is unusually high. the system is working a lot slower than the old 512mb config. sometimes while playing winamp there is a crackling noise which never occured with on asus, i know there's no problem with the audigy 2.
windows installed without a hitch. norton 2003 is regularly updated n the firewall (sygate personal firewall pro 5.5 build 2710) seems to work properly.
there is no legit reason for the awful performance. i have not tried playing a game yet, prolly becoz the system's drivin me nuts. plz help, any sorta help will do.
PLZZ PLZZ.