Low FPS on new MoBo

nfignewton · 16-Nov-2009, 05:02 AM #1

A little while ago, I had a MoBo blow up on me. Not exactly. But the only slot that i could hook up a video card to wouldn't post. So I bought a new one. At first, the whole system seemed slow. I figured out that somehow the fan wasn't working to what it should have. I replaced it as well and the processing issue went away. What stayed was the video still was slow and choppy. I've updated the Bios and the video driver and still doesn't seem to help. It seems like the card is running at about a quarter speed.

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**crjdriver** · 16-Nov-2009, 08:33 AM #2

Did you do a clean install of vista when you swapped boards?

nfignewton · 16-Nov-2009, 01:57 PM #3

Yea... Had to. It wouldn't boot otherwise.

Inglonias · 16-Nov-2009, 04:33 PM #4

I had this happen once. Check to make sure your video card is hooked up to your mobo AND power supply if there is a slot for that on the card. I had that happen to me once. It was my friend's fault.

**crjdriver** · 16-Nov-2009, 06:06 PM #5

When you install an os, you install in this order;
1 Install os
2 Update to latest service pack. For vista, sp2
3 Install chipset/mb drivers
4 Install sound, nic drivers as necessary
5 Install video driver

Did you install in the above order?

nfignewton · 17-Nov-2009, 09:38 PM #6

Yea.... Card is hooked up to both.

And I don't know what order I installed everything. Does that mean I'd have to reinstall everything again?

**crjdriver** · 17-Nov-2009, 10:05 PM #7

Not yet. I would do the following before doing another install;

1 Download the latest chipset driver from the asus site
2 Download the full service pack from MS unless your install disk has sp2 already
3 Download the latest video driver from nvidia's site

Now apply the service pack. Once done with that, reinstall your chipset drivers. Next install your video driver.

Now see how it runs. If you do have to clean install, then save the files you downloaded so you can save some time by not having to download them again.

**crjdriver** · 17-Nov-2009, 10:07 PM #8

One other thought. What board did you originally have installed?

nfignewton · 18-Nov-2009, 12:19 AM #9

Downloading all the stuff now

The board was a Biostar 945P-A7A V8.1

**crjdriver** · 18-Nov-2009, 08:14 AM **#10**

OK, you need to understand one thing. You are using a nvidia chipset motherboard [the new one] You replaced an intel chipset board [old one]

I doubt you are going to get the same performance AND the same trouble free operation with the new board. IMO when you use a third party chipset board ie nvidia, sis, or via, you are asking for problems. When you build an intel system, you use a quality board using an intel chipset. When you build an amd system, you use an amd chipset mb.

nfignewton · 18-Nov-2009, 09:01 PM **#11**

New chipset driver really helped. Not up to what it used to be but then that's what you covered in the last post.
Still downloading SP2 and video driver.

**crjdriver** · 19-Nov-2009, 08:34 AM **#12**

Glad it is working for you. You can mark your own threads as solved using the button at the top of the page.

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