PC slow after OS install

[Cienja]

Hi all. Thanks in advance for your help.

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor
2.20GHz
512 MB RAM
XP Media Center Edition, Version 2002: SP3

Radeon x800Pro

About 8 months ago, I built me a new PC and replaced my kids' PC with my old one (that I also built). No changes to hardware. I re-installed the OS so they had a clean PC to start with, but something wasn't right. It was very slow to load Windows and then very slow to fire up Firefox, for example. I checked the processes running and nothing was taking more than 2% of the CPU. I thought maybe a problem occurred when installing the OS, so I repeated the same process only to get the same result. I've re-seated the RAM, re-seated everything, but the result is the same. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[mechBgon]

I wonder if the hard drive has problems. You could try running some hard-drive diagnostics. The maker of the HDD probably has a test utility you can download, or even run via a web browser.

 

[Cienja]

I didn't even think of the HDs. One of them is a SCSI and the card might be a possible problem too?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Cienja
I didn't even think of the HDs. One of them is a SCSI and the card might be a possible problem too?

Yeah, or the SCSI cable or terminator. See if your card shows what SCSI protocol the drive is using, at the screen it shows right after the motherboard's POST.

 

[Cienja]

I removed the SCSI card and drive and replaced it with an IDE drive that I had. That fixed it Thanks for your input!