new mainboard blues

[dobro]

Hi. I had to replace my motherboard last week (a condenser on the old one ruptured). The new board's a Gigabyte, like the old one, but the new one uses DDR RAM - that seems to be the main difference. Still Pentium 4, still 512 RAM, and nothing else in the system is new. I'm running Win 98.

Here's the problem: loads of really serious stuttering in my audio program. I've tinkered with the buffers, but this is way more serious than that. Any ideas?

Oh, and a related problem: in my word processor, there's a time lag as well that didn't use to be there - I'll type a handful of characters and they won't appear on the screen for maybe two or three seconds sometimes.

Any ideas? Drivers issue? Small incompatibility with Win 98? Gremlins?

 

[Bulls Hit]

Did you get new ram?

Make sure your system bus and ram bus speeds are compatible, eg 800MHz fsb with 400MHz ram.

The Gigabyte board should come with a utility to let you adjust the multipliers etc.

 

[dietcookie]

if you changed motherboards, I would recommend that you format if you haven't done so.