YouTube issues

[Drew]

Consider it ghetto modded :p

[Drew]

Gawd, how ghetto....

I just got back from modding the card... now it has an 80mm UV reactive blue fan for cooling.... held on mith my favourite, cable ties!

I wanted to use silicone sealer too, but couldn't find where...

Quieter though, and it 'aint likely to overheat now...

Right, back to youtube & flash video.... any more ideas?

[DaveW]

So it's still running slow? Hmm...what about BIOS settings? The card might be getting throttled by the BIOS if it's still configured for your old TNT card. See if you can increase the bus speed or the memory size of the card, etc.

Failing that, i'd make sure you've uninstalled all your old drivers and such too, in case they're interfering.

-Dave

[Drew]

shall do.

[Drew]

This is really getting to me now. I mean really.

I'm pretty sure it's not video card related now, am leaning more towards processor speed holding it up.

Could anyone please confirm that a 500mhz CPU can run small videos?

Or confirm that not?

Getting fed up now.... and can't sfford my new MoBo for a while yet....

[DaveW]

500Mhz should be able to do that. What about RAM?

-Dave

[Drew]

256mb

[DaveW]

Hmm...i'm thinking software now. Youtube uses flash, but they shouldn't be that hard to play...your hardware should be able to manage it...

-Dave

[Drew]

Just back from a fresh XP install.

Installed software in order:

XP
NVidia drivers
AVG AnitVirus
AVG AntiSpyware
Flash Player 9

Still doing it. Grrrrrrrrrr

:edit: Now SP2'd up.... probs continuing.

[onelegout]

Hey drew,
I've got some half-good, half-bad news.
I figured that if your issue was cpu based, I could replicate it by using all of my cpu's power on a seperate task and running a youtube video.
What I did was try to extract two ISOs from two seperate large groups of spanned-rar files. I then ran a youtube video and sure enough It stalled and started and lagged like hell.

So, on one hand I guess that it's bad news as it means that your cpu is probably the culprit and that's not an easily fixable problem

On the other hand though, at least you might have some closure with this problem, there's nothing worse than getting frustrated when you cant find out what's causing your problem, but at least when you find out what it probably is, you can work at upgrading/fixing the culprit hardware.

Peace,
H