Vista-related stuttering/lockup - possible SATA/HDD issue?
darleysam
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Right, my brother recently put together a computer, and it's all running relatively smoothly apart from the problem mentioned in the title. Basically, it seems that whenever it has to play a new sound, the game freezes up for anything from a fraction of a second, to a few seconds in some cases. I'm not sure quite what's causing the issue, whether it's a problem with the built-in audio with the motherboard, a quad-core problem or down to some kind of hard-drive access issue. The all-important system specs read as follows:
Intel Core 2 quad q6600
ASUS P5K SE/EPU motherboard (using the Realtek ALC883 onboard audio from this)
4GB Corsair something RAM
nVidia 9800GTX
Seagate 500GB SATA HDD
Vista Home Premium
We've tried installing the audio drivers that came with Vista, and then the ones that came with the motherboard, and I'm currently downloading the latest ones I can find (except Realtek's site is glacial).
Any ideas would be most welcome, cheers.
edit: I've just tried watching the HDD light on the front of the case while playing the Crysis demo, and it does seem to stay on when the game freezes up. Could it be a SATA issue? I've never set that up before, so I don't know if there were any special drivers to install or anything, but I just plugged things in and hoped for the best.
more editing: firstly, it seems to be an issue that affects Vista itself too, rather than just games. Just navigating in Vista seems to draw the same kind of stuttering issues. I've done some research and found a lot of mentions of some Jmicron controller causing the problem, but I can't find anything to do with that on this computer. I also disabled a RAID controller that was sat in the background not being used, and causing regular stutters too. Was that a dumbass move?
Intel Core 2 quad q6600
ASUS P5K SE/EPU motherboard (using the Realtek ALC883 onboard audio from this)
4GB Corsair something RAM
nVidia 9800GTX
Seagate 500GB SATA HDD
Vista Home Premium
We've tried installing the audio drivers that came with Vista, and then the ones that came with the motherboard, and I'm currently downloading the latest ones I can find (except Realtek's site is glacial).
Any ideas would be most welcome, cheers.
edit: I've just tried watching the HDD light on the front of the case while playing the Crysis demo, and it does seem to stay on when the game freezes up. Could it be a SATA issue? I've never set that up before, so I don't know if there were any special drivers to install or anything, but I just plugged things in and hoped for the best.
more editing: firstly, it seems to be an issue that affects Vista itself too, rather than just games. Just navigating in Vista seems to draw the same kind of stuttering issues. I've done some research and found a lot of mentions of some Jmicron controller causing the problem, but I can't find anything to do with that on this computer. I also disabled a RAID controller that was sat in the background not being used, and causing regular stutters too. Was that a dumbass move?
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