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| Thread ID: 121503 | 2011-10-28 16:22:00 | Slow Internet downloads, web surfing, overall performance. Network driver or virus? | Gemi (16605) | Press F1 |
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| 1240585 | 2011-11-01 22:33:00 | A simple test is to boot of a live linux CD and test the performance, I have Ubuntu on a flash drive and it boots faster than windows on the hard drive and everything just works so it's a pretty simple test. If it browses without issues then you definately have a software problem. Of course downloading Linux on your connection could in itself be a problem. XP pro x64 is something of an orphan OS and not actually much to do with XP, it's based off one of the server kernals and not XP so although it looks the same it's a very different beast. I have a copy at home I can't find a use for. Driver and software support is patchy for it because it just really never took off (gamers flirted with it briefly for performance in a few titles). On the plus side it's WoW (windows on windows or something) supported most 32bit programs very well so you can use it like normal XP most of the time. There is no benefit to a 64Bit OS with <4 GB of RAM, normal 32 bit XP would be better. Normally I would say drivers are very unlikely to cause your issues but if you have 32bit XP drivers on a 64 bit system maybe it could be a problem. Perhaps start task manager and check the network stats, see if there is any traffic when you are idling, maybe something is hogging your bandwidth. If I understand your ISP speed test exceeded 10Mbps? if so you tube should stream just fine. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1240586 | 2011-11-01 23:35:00 | A simple test is to boot of a live linux CD and test the performance, I have Ubuntu on a flash drive and it boots faster than windows on the hard drive and everything just works so it's a pretty simple test. If it browses without issues then you definately have a software problem. While that's very likely to be the case in this situation with the ethernet, it's worth noting that if Linux works fine it doesn't rule out a hardware problem. For example, I have a board here with faulty onboard sound - it's definitely faulty because it creates a lot of static in the audio. In Windows, it causes ~30% CPU usage constantly, in Linux this is not the case. Installing a new sound card and disabling the onboard sound fixes the issue. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1240587 | 2011-11-01 23:41:00 | I'd agree that it's not 100% proof, but I'd put it in the 95% + range. Sometimes different software can show up faults that are invisible under other conditions. However the Audio problems you describe could just as easily be the result of bad drivers in windows and do not in themselves prove a hardware issue. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1240588 | 2011-11-02 01:57:00 | Doubt it, the crackling\static is audible during POST as well. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1240589 | 2011-11-02 02:07:00 | The only thing we can conclude from that is that Linux is awesome :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1240590 | 2011-11-04 05:56:00 | Hi guys, thanks for the input. I've been away for work and haven't had time to look into all of your suggestions. I did download a demo HDAT2 and it showed a number of potential issues but it's a foreign language to me and the demo does nothing to fix these potential issues. I'll have to post what it says. I ran the speed stream test again and I was wrong. I was at 1-1.5 Mbps, not at the ethernet speed of 10Mbps. That was 2 days ago. I ran the test again a second ago and now it's showing me at 543kbps download speed (massively slow), and 393kbps upload speed. When I spoke to my ISP a week ago they said I had the "Broadband Lite" package (I'll have to call them again to get back up to 1.5Mbps), and if I want faster speed then I have to purchase a different package. This is confusing to me though. My last computer (which happened, ironically, to have the same operating system and all..but was a dell with Intel drivers), ran perfectly at this speed. So do particular network drivers require more broadband speed/juice than others? Forgive my ignorance on this, I'm no expert. And again, I'll look into the other things you guys mentioned and post results. Going to buy all of you a pizza too for all the time you've put into this. Don't know how but... lol Thanks again and I'll post more results to the tests you suggested. |
Gemi (16605) | ||
| 1240591 | 2011-11-04 06:21:00 | Try Speedfan instead of HDAT2. It will be much easier to get the results onto the forum probably. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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