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Some kind of weird windows refreshing error
DirtyDirtyVagrant
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Hey guys, I am working on my brother's computer and he is having a problem that I really cant identify. I should say before this message that I am by no means any sort of expert and the things I say may not actually make much sense. I am just describing the problem to the best of my abilities.
He is having some kind of issue with the windows user interface. Each time he scrolls up or down inside of a window, or each time he resizes or moves one, it takes two or three entire seconds for the screen to refresh. I'm honestly at a loss for how to describe it any better.
Every graphical process on his computer, including games and video, run at the intended refresh and draw rates, and his control center is not telling me anything unusual about his processor performance (no slowdowns or latency spikes to be seen)
Any ideas?
Edit: Windows XP professional (Havent updated anything yet)
He is having some kind of issue with the windows user interface. Each time he scrolls up or down inside of a window, or each time he resizes or moves one, it takes two or three entire seconds for the screen to refresh. I'm honestly at a loss for how to describe it any better.
Every graphical process on his computer, including games and video, run at the intended refresh and draw rates, and his control center is not telling me anything unusual about his processor performance (no slowdowns or latency spikes to be seen)
Any ideas?
Edit: Windows XP professional (Havent updated anything yet)
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Secondly, are there more than one of them installed?
Actually (and this is exactly what I knew would happen just as soon as I made a thread about it), the problem was solved when I installed SP2. It just began to work as intended.
So I guess this thread is officially over, except I have a new problem with his sound device. Actually several devices. And the problem is that I didn't go through and back up his drivers before I formatted.
Because I am a fucking idiot.
So he's got about six built-in devices in his device manager that I can't identify and cant find drivers to, and his computer seems to be old enough that even the manufacturer doesn't have much to offer.
On top of that, the device that seems to control his sound is having some sort of resource conflict, according to the diagnostic.
It's an HP a1220n desktop, if that matters.