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fux0r · 09-01-2008, 09:48 AM

Hello all. I'm not sure if that's the correct forum section for my problem, but the problems started after replacing motherboard, so I'm sorry if that's not the right section. :)

A few days ago I have replaced my motherboard, from Intel D865GBF to MSI RS350M-ILSR (MS-7031) (data from Everest), since the CPU socket got damaged in the Intel board. The problem is that now the PC slows down after like 5 mins of gaming to the point where new games are unplayable, and in the older games like Q3, for example, the FPS drops by 30 or so. I turn on the pc, log into windows, run any game and it works fine for about 5 mins, and the slow down starts, huge fps drops. Restarting the game or even the PC doesn't help, but if I turn off my PC, and turn it back on after few minutes it runs fine again for 5 mins in games, and then the fps drop again. Of course everything was perfectly fine on the old board. At first I thought it was driver problem so I reinstalled windows and reformatted the drive on which Windows was installed (i have 3 drives, C, D and E, windows was installed on C so I formatted that one, didn't touch the others) but it didn't help at all. Hell, even the installation of Windows and reformatting took longer than before. I installed newest drivers for my graphics card, motherboard and everything else of course. My spec's:

Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.2ghz (LGA 478)
MSI RS350M-ILSR (MS-7031) motherboard
1024MB of ram
Sapphire Radeon x1650pro 512mb (AGP)
Seagate 320GB SATA hard drive
Modecom Feel 400W
Windows XP Pro

Also, I borrowed an 550W Chieftec PSU from my friend, thinking it was the case, but it didn't help, the slowdowns still occured. Please help me. Thank you in advance.

09-01-2008, 09:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
fux0r Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Windows XP Proffesional, SP2	PC slows down after few minutes Hello all. I'm not sure if that's the correct forum section for my problem, but the problems started after replacing motherboard, so I'm sorry if that's not the right section. :) A few days ago I have replaced my motherboard, from Intel D865GBF to MSI RS350M-ILSR (MS-7031) (data from Everest), since the CPU socket got damaged in the Intel board. The problem is that now the PC slows down after like 5 mins of gaming to the point where new games are unplayable, and in the older games like Q3, for example, the FPS drops by 30 or so. I turn on the pc, log into windows, run any game and it works fine for about 5 mins, and the slow down starts, huge fps drops. Restarting the game or even the PC doesn't help, but if I turn off my PC, and turn it back on after few minutes it runs fine again for 5 mins in games, and then the fps drop again. Of course everything was perfectly fine on the old board. At first I thought it was driver problem so I reinstalled windows and reformatted the drive on which Windows was installed (i have 3 drives, C, D and E, windows was installed on C so I formatted that one, didn't touch the others) but it didn't help at all. Hell, even the installation of Windows and reformatting took longer than before. I installed newest drivers for my graphics card, motherboard and everything else of course. My spec's: Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.2ghz (LGA 478) MSI RS350M-ILSR (MS-7031) motherboard 1024MB of ram Sapphire Radeon x1650pro 512mb (AGP) Seagate 320GB SATA hard drive Modecom Feel 400W Windows XP Pro Also, I borrowed an 550W Chieftec PSU from my friend, thinking it was the case, but it didn't help, the slowdowns still occured. Please help me. Thank you in advance. Last edited by fux0r; 09-01-2008 at 09:50 AM.