Kent.

Well, i'm going to try to update all the drivers I have on my motherboard and
i'll update you all, thanks for the idea, i'll give that a whirl!!!

Kent.

"Rock" wrote:

> "Kent." <Kent.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>
> > Hey everybody, i've searched through the entire forum, and couldn't find
> > ANYTHING related to my problem. Most of the computers in the forum are a
> > little bit 'lower end', and I can't relate to them.
> >
> > For example, whenever I plug in (for example) my iPod, my computer goes
> > crazy. It could be the fact that iTunes isn't fully out on Windows Vista
> > yet,
> > but it goes on.
> >
> > I have many applications that when they are opened (for example, Skype),
> > it
> > slows down at an incredible rate.
> >
> > I have a 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4, with a 256 meg Radeon 9800 graphics card, 2
> > gigabytes worth of DDR memory, and about 1 terrabyte of HDD space. I have
> > a
> > system score of 3.5, due to the graphics card, but everything else is over
> > a
> > 4.1.
> >
> > Anyways, my question is that i'm not sure if it's my computer, the
> > software,
> > the hardware, what can I do? Is ANYONE having this type of problem?
> >
> > Thanks for all of your help! Kent.
>
> It's a problem with your system, it's hardware, the drivers, and the
> software, it's not a generic problem in Vista. This system runs fine, at
> idle with multiple apps open like multiple tabs in IE, windows mail, Corel
> WordPerfect, the CPU use is at 0-10%. When action are performed, CPU use
> goes up for a moment, but it doesn't stay high all the time. When indexing
> kicks in that ups it a bit too.
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
>
>