- Dec 4, 2001
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Hi guys, sorry if this has been covered, but search didn't turn up anything useful.
I just did a clean install of Vista Home Premium. For some reason that I can't figure out, everything is incredibly slow visually. Even moving the mouse takes ~5 seconds to register on the screen. Interestingly, it sort of seems like the actual behind-the-scenes processing is going at a normal speed, but it just takes forever to make anything pop up on the screen. My processing usage hovers around 25% at idle, but rarely hits 100%, even when I'm installing stuff.
This computer is a dual-boot with XP Pro. XP was installed first, also a clean install. I'm typing this in XP now, and it works fine.
Things I've tried unsuccessfully:
Installing all Windows updates.
Installing ATI's vista video drivers from website.
Turning off "vista" visual theme.
I thought it might be chipset drivers, but the old XP drivers that came with my laptop won't install on vista. My next thought is to try to download generic Intel chipset drivers from Intel's website.
My computer:
Sager 5860 laptop
3.2 GHz P4 HT (desktop chip)
Intel chipset (not sure which one, but it has an 800 MHz FSB).
1 GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (Aero approved)
Any thoughts or help would be appreciated. Feel free to ask questions. Thanks!
I just did a clean install of Vista Home Premium. For some reason that I can't figure out, everything is incredibly slow visually. Even moving the mouse takes ~5 seconds to register on the screen. Interestingly, it sort of seems like the actual behind-the-scenes processing is going at a normal speed, but it just takes forever to make anything pop up on the screen. My processing usage hovers around 25% at idle, but rarely hits 100%, even when I'm installing stuff.
This computer is a dual-boot with XP Pro. XP was installed first, also a clean install. I'm typing this in XP now, and it works fine.
Things I've tried unsuccessfully:
Installing all Windows updates.
Installing ATI's vista video drivers from website.
Turning off "vista" visual theme.
I thought it might be chipset drivers, but the old XP drivers that came with my laptop won't install on vista. My next thought is to try to download generic Intel chipset drivers from Intel's website.
My computer:
Sager 5860 laptop
3.2 GHz P4 HT (desktop chip)
Intel chipset (not sure which one, but it has an 800 MHz FSB).
1 GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (Aero approved)
Any thoughts or help would be appreciated. Feel free to ask questions. Thanks!