Interesting little PC problem Ihad

[Vanraw]

Thought I would share. My PC started having some serious random performance issues. Sometimes it was fine, but other times, games and even straight up goog search browsing would just slow to a snails pace.

First thought was a driver issue or nasty malware. After a bunch of trouble shooting I wont go into, however the one thing I noticied was that when I reverted / uninstalled some of the Microslop autoupdate security patches, the problem seem to go away. Searched and noone else was having the same issues.

Later the issues came back. Checking drivers and such I also found they were all compliant. Also loaded origial drivers thinking some update might have hoarked up the driver. No luck.

I noticed that the when the PC was working fine, I intermitently had problems playing mp3s. SO I disabled the on board audio codecs via bios, and the PC is back to brand new.

In the end it looks like I have a hardware issue on the motherboard AC97 chipset. I bought a pcie sound card and the PC is running like a champ again.....