Computer Slow, videos/audio choppy

[cauzomb]

FYI, if you are doing streaming often, or need better quality, you will want to do this NOW http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...22&postcount=7

Allign your partition by having someone with windows vista or windows 7 Format your hard disk in their computer for you; that way you get partition starting offset alligned to sector boundry; to prevent disk fragmentation, slow access to data etc.. You want a starting offset of 2048 sectors; windows vista and seven do this automatically when creating a partition.. when formatting etc... the disk must not be re-formatted when re-installing windows xp, windows xp cannot format a partition to the sector boundry. it's STUPID, or it's one of those consumer/and professional IT sector "slight of hand tricks" to keep consumers or small private sectors from competeing in the professional IT market, cause they could not keep their default factory installed servers working as fast as their competition, or as efficiently, they had to keep buying bigger and bigger hard disks and had extreamly slow I/O performance for a certain number of years, before actually learning that disk allignment would have allowed them to provide the better "service and support" compared to the outsourced off-shore people.. So they were unable to compete fairly in the free market... MONOPOLY.. :P ok on with the show...

[DomHennig]

FYI, if you are doing streaming often, or need better quality, you will want to do this NOW http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...22&postcount=7

Allign your partition by having someone with windows vista or windows 7 Format your hard disk in their computer for you;

How do I do that? Do I put my Hard Drive in someone with ANY Vista/Windows 7 computer (I say any because I thought there were a lot of problems with Vista computers) so if I put my hard drive in ANY computer that is clean, running fine and has Windows Vista on this, I should be fine?

[DomHennig]

Looking to restore my computer tonight, going over the steps and here is some I do not understand:

Check to ensure that all your installation media is available. You will need the following:
The Dell Operating System Reinstallation CD/DVD,
The Dell™ Reinstallation CD for Microsoft® Windows® XP
The Dell Resource CD/DVD,
Any application install disks,
Any software and/or documentation for your Internet service connection,
Any install discs for any external devices (such as a printer) and internal devices added to the computer after it was shipped by Dell.

I have the Dell Reinstallation DVD (Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Version 2005 with Update Rollup 2). And my printer installation CD.

Install discs for Internal Devices?
Resoruce CD/DVD? (I believe that is the CD it comes with to install the drivers, OR you can get them online, so I am fine for that)
Software for Internet Service Connection?

Do I need those?





1.) Insert the Windows XP CD into the CD drive. Is that the "Dell Reinstallation DVD (Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Version 2005 with Update Rollup 2)."?


2.) After I reformat the computer it says to reinstall my drivers. One of the drivers is "Touchpad, Pointer, Trackstick, Mice, and Keyboards". How am I supposed to go online and navigate through the computer if my Keyboard/Mouse is not working? Or am I reading too much into that?



That's all I do not understand, the rest looks like I can handle.



Thanks in Advance!

[DomHennig]

Hey Guys,

So sorry I couldn't get a Thank You in. Once I got my comptuer to work, I went on vacation for the holidays and did not bring my laptop.

Thanks so much!

[DomHennig]

So then I hit "OK" 20 times to get rid of that error, and this one came up as well:

.Net Framework Initialization Error
C:\\Windows\Microsoft.net\Framework\v2.0.50727\msc orwks.dll could not be loaded.


And then the entire thing finishes up, and I turn my computer on and its back to how it was before I started with all my programs. It said 15 minuets away from being completed too.