A friend of mine picked up a new computer on the weekend. ABit NF7-S 2500 Barton 512 Ram Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro Windows XP Pro Onboard Sound The problem he has is when playing games, Medal of Honor, BF 1942 or whatever both the computer stutters. The video, sound and even the mouse movement all slow down. He's got the latest drivers and we cannot figure out for the life of us whats causing the problem. Anyone have any suggestions? The store he bought it from suggested the power supply is to weak, I believe he has a 300 watt power supply. He doesn't have an abnormal number of fans or devices so I would think this isn't the problem. Any ideas? Bad hardware? Conflict of some sort? Looking for ideas. Thanks

how many rpm's is the harddrive?? whats the brand of the harddrive?? maxtors stutter sometimes holler waranty

About six months ago my brother and I both decided to try a MB with the as we call it "no force chipset" and we had nothing but sound and video. Both of us are very computer saavy and could not solve the problem. We boxed them up and took the Boards back and went back to via chipset board. I know several other people who had the ati video card you have and that chipset and soundstorm sound with additional problems. Never resolved them. I do agree on the power supply, you should at least have a 420 with that system set up, but then why did they sell it to you like that? The only thing I could suggest is to try to disable direct sound during game play only and see if that is resolved, if not do a search for Omega drivers and try replacing the video card drivers with those. I hear they are much more stable. Sorry no better answers for you...

Are you sure you have DMA mode on in the bios and in windows. xp and 2k "should" turn dma mode on automatically but it might not. you could also see if you can revert back to the standard ide controler rather then the nforce driver.

It turned out it was a problem with the onboard sound. He bought a soundcard and disabled the onboard sound and everything is fine now. Weird.