Doctor Varney
Cave dwelling Luddite
Right, I'm back and having another stab with what I've got. I'm doing my best to stay patient and calm. I'm willing to persevere... I think.
I've set up the big new AMD Phenom II x4 machine (4GB RAM) with Windows 7 Home Premium. It's taken me about four days of wrestling with driver installations and updates (which can take up to an hour each) to get this thing working anywhere near what I'd have expected from a modern computer. But things are still not right on this clean install and performance is arguably as bad as when I was using XP with the same hardware.
Under Windows 7 I've experienced incredibly slow boot times and a few crashes. I've inspected the Event Log in the Administration tools and found frequent errors and warnings leaning towards the critical.
By removing Start Up applications, I've managed to squeeze the boot time down slightly and the usual critical icon on last boot was relegated to an 'error' in the operational (start up) performance log.
I still have something called 'Yontoo' coming up in my list of installed programs, even though I have no clue what it is or where it came from, despite repeated attempts to uninstall. Any light cast on this would be appreciated.
I haven't yet installed any DAW software or hardware. This is just the basic system with networking; office and graphics production software. It's meant to be my main office/ business computer and that's what I'm setting it up for (at the moment).
Online performance seems satisfactory (fast) but overall, things still aren't as they should be and the CD RW drive has never worked - at all.
As for the CD drive, I've Googled hard and wide for answers and can find no solution that applies. That had me hunting for non-existent high and low filters to delete in the registry. I have repeatedly installed drivers and hunted high and low for better versions to no avail.
Both units I've tried have worked in other computers, so I know it's not the CD drives that are at fault. Two CD drives that previously worked under XP simply don't work under Windows 7. The drive shows up as an icon in the Computer window and Device Manager reports "This device is working properly". The lights come on but when I click on the drive, there's no one home.
So basically, my query boils down to: What steps do I need to take to speed up this system and get it running smooth and stable... and has anyone any suggestions as to what I might try to get this CD Drive (ANY CD drive) working with my PC?
In a nutshell - how do I turn this half-functional egg crate into a fully working computer?
Thanks for your time, friends.
Dr. V
I've set up the big new AMD Phenom II x4 machine (4GB RAM) with Windows 7 Home Premium. It's taken me about four days of wrestling with driver installations and updates (which can take up to an hour each) to get this thing working anywhere near what I'd have expected from a modern computer. But things are still not right on this clean install and performance is arguably as bad as when I was using XP with the same hardware.
Under Windows 7 I've experienced incredibly slow boot times and a few crashes. I've inspected the Event Log in the Administration tools and found frequent errors and warnings leaning towards the critical.
By removing Start Up applications, I've managed to squeeze the boot time down slightly and the usual critical icon on last boot was relegated to an 'error' in the operational (start up) performance log.
I still have something called 'Yontoo' coming up in my list of installed programs, even though I have no clue what it is or where it came from, despite repeated attempts to uninstall. Any light cast on this would be appreciated.
I haven't yet installed any DAW software or hardware. This is just the basic system with networking; office and graphics production software. It's meant to be my main office/ business computer and that's what I'm setting it up for (at the moment).
Online performance seems satisfactory (fast) but overall, things still aren't as they should be and the CD RW drive has never worked - at all.
As for the CD drive, I've Googled hard and wide for answers and can find no solution that applies. That had me hunting for non-existent high and low filters to delete in the registry. I have repeatedly installed drivers and hunted high and low for better versions to no avail.
Both units I've tried have worked in other computers, so I know it's not the CD drives that are at fault. Two CD drives that previously worked under XP simply don't work under Windows 7. The drive shows up as an icon in the Computer window and Device Manager reports "This device is working properly". The lights come on but when I click on the drive, there's no one home.
So basically, my query boils down to: What steps do I need to take to speed up this system and get it running smooth and stable... and has anyone any suggestions as to what I might try to get this CD Drive (ANY CD drive) working with my PC?
In a nutshell - how do I turn this half-functional egg crate into a fully working computer?
Thanks for your time, friends.
Dr. V
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