Hi, wandering if someone can help....
PC Spec - An-m2HD/AMD 4800+ X2/Corsair 2X1gb @880Mhz/Maxtor Diamond 10 sata 160gb 7200/8800 GTS 640MB/corsair 750w psu..
Problem - I have had this system for over a year now, everything runs fine (games/movies/encoding etc), but in device manager under IDE/ATAPI Controller I basically have 6 items listed, 2 primary controllers, 2 secondary controllers and 2 primary PCIE controllers. Problem is they all have microsoft drivers from 2001. Various machines I work on always have either Intel or the relevant driver fro the Primary controller.
I have installed the latest drivers for all devices on my system, but cannot change this controller to the MCP68 Nvidia Nforce device, no matter which driver I try and install. You may think this isn't a problem, but soon as I go onto the start menu I get a delay when showing the contents, ie programs, accesories etc....Or when I access different options in games I get lag and can here the hard drive whiring away.....
I regulary defrag, clean my system using relevant tools, it is as though I get a lag when accessing the hard drive, which Im thinkin is to do with the controller for the hard drive!!!?!??!
I have OC'ed the cpu to just under 3Ghz, from 2.5, so Im also thinking I could be gettting some sort of bottle neck...but again not sure..
Sorry for the long post guys but im hoping someone can throw some light on this for me.....
Many thanks in advance