When I decided to downgrade my 7900GTX my PC has gone horribly wrong. I sold it and then bought a 6800GS off here to replace it.
When it arrived one of the capacitors had broken off, I used it and it used fine but the CPU kept on getting to 100% and slowing the PC down.
So me being the wise guy I am, bought a solder off Ebay and had to break a CD player to find some solder. I did this and stuck the capacitor with much difficulty onto the card. It seems to be on but I've no idea if it's on properly.
It has made the problem a little better, but I also stupidly decided to format my hard drive to see if it was windows as a GPU and CPU seem kind of unrelated.
And stupidly again, I chose the wrong drive to format and ended up losing 100GB of various files which wasn't too great.
Anyway, that didn't help and my CPU usage keeps on going to 100%.
But it is quite random, sometimes I can leave it on for 12 hours and I can use it fine. But other times after half an hour random processes take up all the CPU, such as firefox, iTunes, Rundll etc...
Is there anything I can do to rectify this atall? Like a driver or something?
Also, would anyone happen to have a really bad, cheap PCI-E graphics card they could sell me?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Oh yes, my specs are:
3800+ Venice
2GB RAM PC3200
Abit AN8 Ultra
6800GS XFX
Logitech MX3100 Combo
Dell 20" Widescreen TFT
Audigy 4
Think that's all that is in any terms relevant?