I have a serious graphics problem in XP normal mode

**Kristoff2121** · May 23, 2002

AMD 1800+, ECS K7S5A, RADEON 8500 64MB, 512 MB DDR, 60 GB HDD, 400 WATT PS, AUDIGY

Hi folks,

Above is most of the hardware in my cpu. I have had XP Pro installed for a while now. Recently and not long after I upgraded my processor I noticed while trying to watch a DVD that the animation was choppy. After studying this I noticed that about every second the movement would freeze briefly. To test whether it was my DVD Decoder I watched the Win XP Tour and it also had a very rythmic freeze in movement. I will tell you all, I have almost everyhting imaginable to isolate this problem. I have tried to contact ECS Elitegroup about thier mobo and they have absolutely no tech support. Although I did get ahold of someone from ATI, they also have no quality tech support. I have completely reformatted my HDD and did a clean install of a friends disk of Win XP (sorry, troubleshooting people). I have detached every piece of hardware not vital and this problem is still there. Everything tells me that is has to be my month old Radeon 8500, however, if I am safe mode the problem goes away! I am completely at a loss. And to make matters worse it seems that nobody has ever had this problem as I have been searching for any clues online for days. By the way, all my drivers are current and for XP. I have set my hardware acceleration to "none" and tried various different settings for the radeon in "advanced settings" and the problem still exists. I have gone into the motherboard settings and taken off the 4x for agp, I have tried different latency settings, different "graphics win" (apperature) settings and completely updated bios and SIS 730 chipset to no avail. It is driving me crazy... i just watch it go tick, tick ,tick, actually, stick, stick, stick and it is timed to an exact second (you could set your watch to it). It is present in everything that moves on the screen including screen savers, xp tour, DVD. Can anyone help me or am I cursed?

**BAH** · May 23, 2002

But what speed DVD is it...?

**GamerXP** · May 23, 2002

you mentioned when you booted to safe mode the problem went away....did you have network connectivity in safe mode???

perhaps it is your network connection causing the interruption

maybe the display resolution you have in normal mode is too high...again safe mode's would be lower...

just something to think about...is anything else attached USB, scanners, printer, PDA, cameras, MP3...that you have in noraml mode try unplugging these to see if that eliminate the issue:WTF?:

**Kristoff2121** · May 24, 2002

Found the problem. Bad Zip drive plugged into Parallel port.

..........stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid... I will now go to the chalkboard and write 100 times:

I am a big dumbs*** I am a big dumb s*** I am a big dumbs***

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