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cmoses:

All of those devices need to be updated with proper drivers. Some look like motherboard drivers, network, USB drivers, video card. Until those are all update and no longer showing with the exclamation point the system will not be running correctly.

The vga one is probably causing the most slow down so fix that one first.

gman314:

Does it matter that the motherboard uses onboard graphics? In other words, I do not have a video card installed. Will  this effect me being able to update the drivers?

Also, does this rule out the SSD as the problem ?

cmoses:

No you just need to get the drivers from you motherboard manufacturer. Probably the same for all of those.

Looks like the SSD has no issues, but one of the other devices that are could be causing problems. The "unknown device" could be anything. Try to figure it out by looking at the drivers from your MB manufacturer.

Drnick:

Find out the exact motherboard you have, go to their site and get the following drivers. You should install Chipset first, the rest it doesn't really matter.

1) Chipset drivers
2) Sound Card Drivers
3) Video Drivers
4) Network Drivers
5) System management (May be covered by Chipset drivers)

Basically windows is falling back on all the inbuilt drivers it has which whilst working are not exactly optimised in any way.

fallacy:

Your particular problem is that your video drivers are not installed. Windows xp will use a default driver to just display – hence the choppiness when you move windows around and such. Even onboard has its own video card drivers.

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