Installing videocard slows down my computer

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efrem

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After I installed my Evga 8800 GS 384MB graphic card, I found out that my computer have been going slower than before. It's been over a week after I installed it and it's really irritating. Is it normal?
 
Its difficult to know without more information on how it slows down.
 
Did you get the latest motherboard and vga drivers, also do you have enough power to run the card? You may also want to check in the bios and make sure the pci express is set to 16x, 100mhz, onboard graphics are turned of... ect
 
Did you get the latest motherboard and vga drivers, also do you have enough power to run the card? You may also want to check in the bios and make sure the pci express is set to 16x, 100mhz, onboard graphics are turned of... ect
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What you mean onboard graphics are turned off?
 
efrem said:
What you mean onboard graphics are turned off?
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He means if you have an onboard gfx chipset, make sure it is disabled as your PC might be trying to use it.
If that doesnt help, can you answer the questions we have asked.
 
It take me an hour just to download a file when I have dsl that has speed of 100.0 Mbps. Also extracting files take twenty mins, it takes five mins to load my window, opening programs takes two mins. I used disk cleanup once a week and disk defrag once a month.
 
Your dsl isn't 100mbit that's your lan speed...
Have you deleted your old graphics drivers off your computer?
 
Well my friend came over to help me set it up. But I don't think he deleted the driver files. Instead he just went on Nvidia and download the 8800 GS driver and overwrite it.Do you have to delete the old videocard driver?
 
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ALso I'm not sure where to update my motherboard AGP.

My motherboard chipset: NVIDIA MCP61 Manufacturer: ECS Product: Nettle2
 
Well I just called Hp technical support and they told me to check if I install the new version of my BIOS, which I know I didn't. Once I download it I ran it and reboot my computer. I didn't have a error when I start my computer which I have before. But the thing is that when I click on the account that I want to use, It said "welcome" and the cursor load for long time of period,then it load up the the screen page. I ask them why? And they said because I have alot of Antivirus and Spyware program which cause my computer to become slower because of the virus and spyware. I was confused because I have so many Antivirus and Spyware program watching how the heck they can get it? Should I unstall all of my Antivirus and Spyware program?
 
just format already.

(really something that should be done whenever you swap hardware anyways)
 
Sounds like a driver issue to me. You could try some sort of driver cleaning or a brand new OS install.
 
horrorshow said:
just format already.

(really something that should be done whenever you swap hardware anyways)
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that is simply not true. WIth proper preparations and setup, there's no need to have to re-format just because you upgraded your video card. Hell OEMs ship with Intel, Nvidia and sometimes even ATI video drivers preinstalled, yet they work well enough.


In this case, your "friend" seriously messed something up if it worked fine before hand and now doesn't. Download alll the lastest drivers for at least your chipset, graphics, and audion. Save them off disk (cd-r or USB stick etc), then re-format and start from scratch.
 
sounds like your the type to install too much crap on your computer, this s why it is slow

go to start button, go to the RUN command, type in msconfig

from there, go tot he startup tab - uncheck EVERYTHING - reboot, see ifit goes faster?

then go an install EVERY antivurs and spyare program you have and install either

AVG or NOD32 and then gete spybot search and destroy.
 
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