New PC and yet same old problems

Hi,
I've just put together the PC in my signature and have already run into a bunch of problems. First and most irritatingly - this is now the third PC i've put together that has problems with jumpy graphics in games. It never really bothered me before because i'm not big on games and tend to use my PC for video encoding etc etc. But this latest PC i built (on a budget) for games as Half Life 2 will arrive soon i thought i'd start gaming again!
Anyway, a little tricky to describe but i hope you'll understand what i mean when i say the graphics are jumpy or jerky. They sort of stutter. Now this being the third PC i've had with the same problem will lead you assume i have a nasty power problem in my house. Well no, cos thats what i thought. My power supply is very good and to be extra careful all my PC's now have a UPS with voltage regulators onboard.
I thought this could be a memory issue (AMD 64 platforms seem to have a fair few problems with memory) but memtest cleared my Mushkin memory at stock settings after close to 8 hours testing.
So i've done some benchmarking and testing and thought you may be interested in the results. PCMark04 - All my results check very well compared to similar systems except my CPU score, that was lower than expected. Another interesting point would be my Sandra scores, again all scores faired well except the CPU Multi media score that was lower than an XP 2000+. Hmmmm....
3dMark etc is all good (again except CPU scores in 3DMARK03) so i don't know what more to say about that. Heat is a possibility, my readings show the CPU runs @ 43c idle, my case tells me the system runs at ~28c, but i don't know if that CPU reading is accurate because i haven't updated the BIOS yet, which leads me onto my next problem...
I can't seem to update the BIOS because when i get to the A:\ prompt in DOS i can't get to any other drive. i.e. i can't type in "c:" to change drive so i can update the BIOS which is really annoying. I'm not sure whats up here - probably something setup wrong in the BIOS but i wouldn't know.
Thirdly, more of a question than me moaning, is it ok to have the SATA controller sharing an IRQ? I will post my IRQ's at the bottom of this post.
But if this graphics problem has happened to me three out of three times, then i must be doing something wrong each time. Well plenty to think about and there are probably some very good explanations.
Thanks for your time,
bounty

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Originally posted by bounty
Hey thanks for your replies.
I'm running the latest BIOS available, latest drivers etc and have installed the AMD drivers too. I'm running my SATA drive on SATA 1 and have now disabled 3 and 4 as well as put the AGP frequency up to 67. I'm not OCing anything and no equipment has ever been used in all 3 machines.
I tried turning off fast writes and lowering the hardware acceleration and believe me this is like the 4th install of windows i've done trying to sort this problem out. Still no prevail though.
What about the harddrive flickering, should it be doing that whilst i play games?
You should be using Sata 3 or 4 , not 1 or 2.
Also DIMM 1 and 2 for memory (those closest to the CPU)
if you are using an Nvidia card the agp fastwrites is usually what causes hangs, and freezing.
Strange that you should build three PCs all with the same problem.. What is the common factor here? if its the Video card, i suggest getting a new one.

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