Recent content by Lorelock

No, it's actually still using the original BIOS which according to CPUID is from late 2006. As an update, while the graphical testers don't show improvement after the chipset drivers were installed, I'm actually experiencing better framerates from in game. It's not a huge improvement, but I'm...

No such luck from the Vista drivers - they wouldn't even install properly. I did find my chipset and use Intel's driver install. Following the restart, there has been no change in my video performance according to the video test. As a side note I'm a little disappointed with MSI's support.

No, unfortunately by upgrade I mean it's a new OS. I did a complete format of the drive (should have used DBAN but didn't have a spare disc) and then did a fresh install of Windows 7. Something just occurred to me. During the whole driver install I did have one major issue. The motherboard cd...

Yes I've sent it back, it'll take time for them to send a new one though. Considering I'm having the same difficulty with the old card that I am with the new I'm hoping if we can figure out what's wrong it'll transfer when I get the new one back. Even with the old card I'm getting similar...

Thanks for the welcome. Ah yes, by bombed I mean during those particular tests my CPU averaged somewhere just below 1 FPS. I'm not entirely sure the program used both cores properly or even at all, but even if it was only using a single core that seemed abysmally low. Unfortunately, I don't...

I upgraded to Windows 7 when it came out. So far I have been loving it and spent a good bit of last weekend getting everything set up and running properly. However, when I started playing games on the system I noticed a fairly large problem. Namely, that I was getting similar or worse...