recently reinstalled windows XP on my Dell Inspiron 5150. The system is as follows:
Windows XP Home
2.66 gHz Pentium 4
1.00 gb RAM
Nvidia GeForce go 5200 64mb
After reinstalling windows according to the instruction on dell.com, I have been having a problem in which every time I attempt to play Warcraft III or watch any kind of video online my computer usage goes to 100% and sometimes the computer locks up, other times it just crawls to the point that mouse movement is choppy. When I open the task manager to see what processes are taking up the 100%, it is always five or six different processes at anywhere from 15-30% each. It is never the same processes. Dell phone support told me that it was a software problem, but this cannot be the case because I have the exact same software on my laptop now as I did before reinstalling windows. I was thinking it could be a driver conflict or something. If anyone has had the same problem and resovled it or if anyone has any knowledge help is appreciated. Thanks!
"because I have the exact same software on my laptop now as I did before reinstalling windows"
not necessarily, and it depends on how you look at it. do you have the exact same driver versions as before? (you hit on that one) do you have the same windows updates, etc.? i would probably refresh my video driver first off...
hv you try to update your video driver? did you install all the necessary driver to yr comp? like chipset, audio, video and dell desktop system software.
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Posted July 17th, 2006 21:00