When ever i scroll down from page to page either on the internet or on applications such as word documents, my monitor does not scroll smoothly, but rather jumps screens. For example, when you grab the scroll bar on the right side of internet pages and pull down, it should scroll smoothly as you go down the page. My monitor jumps from page to page very slowly, and is not a smooth transition. It is quite annoying. Please help!
Actually that sound like a driver problem. Update your driver and video card. Happy hunting.
Your monitor should have a reasonable to good refresh rate so I doubt it's at fault. It sounds as if you have another program running in the background which is slowing your computer down. Press the keys CTRL. ALT and DELETE at the same time and have a look to see what's running. Close down any programs you aren't using and see if that fixes things. Another problem could be a shortage of memory. I'd recommend no less than 512 Megabytes or ram with Windows XP. If you could give me more info as to which operating system you're using, how fast is the CPU and how much memory etc it would be easier to diagnose. One last thing, you could have a virus and it's chewing up memory. Do you have an up to date virus checker? If not install AVG. it's completely free and available on the net. While you're at it install a spyhunter program and malware checker. There's some weird rogue nasties crawling all over the net. You could've even installed a nasty along with a freebie program you got off the net. BMW
Yes it certainly could be, especially if you're using the generic driver which Windows found for it. Do a google for the driver or go to www.drivers.com. Or better still go to the board manufacturer and download the latest drivers.
One way to check if there is something hogging your memory is push the Ctrl, Alt and Delete key and right down the bottom of the window which opens (Task Manager) you can see the CPU USAGE. If this is flicking around 1 to 5 then it's ok if nothing is running but if it's up closer to a hundred or jumping very high it could still be a nasty's got you. Don't forget not all virus or malware checkers find everything and there's new ones coming out every day. The one I personally recommend is SpyStopper Pro. It hasn't let anything through since I installed it and that was 5 months ago.
One last thing, try swapping your memory modules with a friend's, you could have a problem there. Or take the memory modules out, clean the contacts with a piece of printer paper and slot them back in again. If you have 2 sticks leave one out and try out the computer. If it still plays up try the other stick on it's own. If the problem clears then buy a new module or stick.
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I could have zero other programs running, and it still does the lag thing. I have windows XP, 512MB RAM with 1.8 GHz AMD processor. I also have norton antivirus, i've have the Adware and spybot programs to try to get rid of spyware. I still have the same problem.
Do you think it could be a problem with the driver for my video card?
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