Plz Help! New System is very slow

[SouSeel]

Hi There

Listen to my Hardware below i have a BIG Problem. So I've seen that's nearly the same Hardware as Wanderer has.. 😉

My Problem is, that everything go very slow. There are no Error Messages or something like that. It starts when I try to install Win Xp Pro... the pc still works, no freeze, no errors only that it is VERY SLOW. I tried many ways, like change the HD, turn of Floppy and DVD drive, setting in BIOS (but I think there must be nothing set that the PC works at least like my old pc 😉 ). So i still think the CPU or the RAM is bad.

I've also a problem with my SATA HD.. on format there will be only 130GB availaible?

Thx for quickely response

 

[Fattysharp]

250 gig drive should show you 232 gigs when you format it. This is mostly because 1 gig is 1024 megs, not a even 1000 megs. A more indepth answer can be found in the PCMech Forum I linked. Not sure if the forums here allow links to other forums. Let me know if I am breaking the rules.

HD Size Explained

As for slowness, when is it slow? is it on bootup ? is during specific programs ? Is your boot drive your IDE ?

 

[bwnv]

Until you get the service packs 132gb is all windows can see per partition. As for being slow, does the bios show your cpu correctly? May need to go into bios and set things manually.

 

[Wentelteefje]

What hard drive you're installing WinXP onto? The SATA or the ATA ones? I once forgot to put the jumpers in the correct position, and the installation went extremely slow as well...

As bwnv says, you'll be able to use the full capacity of your hard drive once you've installed WinXP (you could use a program like PartitionMagic or so...). Fact is, my Maxtor 250GB was upon installing WinXP immediately recognized as ~230GB.

I'd recheck your jumper settings, on your optical drives as well...