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[Ns1]

As a followup to this thread..
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I have all the parts I need now. Basically, here is the current setup..

Enermax 430 watt psu
eVga nForce 730i motherboard
2gb ram
intel 2.2ghz c2d
pioneer dvd player

80gb hd

now, everything but the HD is new

I booted it up, performed a 'repair' installation of windows. I'm in xp now except everything is slow as goddamn molasses. If you've ever had a cd burner burn at 1kb/sec because it was set to PIO instead of DMA..yeah, it's like that.

Windows system tells detects the proc + ram just fine
I have 2 different brand new sets of ram (corsair and kingston), swapped them out, and neither one is the cause of the problem.

Originally I thought the HD would be running in something other than DMA mode, but a check of device manager proves otherwise.

I am now at a complete loss of what to do; I'd really rather not reinstall the OS....so if you guys have any other suggestions please help me out here.

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It is not any faster in safe mode

 

[Intexity]

hmmm my first thought is that your psu COULD be a little light for your setup. but I don't think it would slow your whole computer down like that. seriously it will probably be easier to do a clean install. I am willing to bet something on the hard drive carried over to the repair install you did. maybe a bad sector? whats your task manager look like? are the resources maxed out? probably be a good idea to scan your hard drive with hirens boot cd or something of that sort. hope something here helps ya.

 

[Ns1]

Round 2

Oddly enough, after it loads for 5-10 minutes, it's a killer fast machine; performs as it should. But for the first 10 minutes...

Originally posted by: Intexity
hmmm my first thought is that your psu COULD be a little light for your setup. but I don't think it would slow your whole computer down like that. seriously it will probably be easier to do a clean install.
I'd rather not since it's not my computer

I am willing to bet something on the hard drive carried over to the repair install you did. maybe a bad sector?
Possible, running a full chkdsk now

whats your task manager look like? are the resources maxed out?
Nope, 98% system idle whatever

probably be a good idea to scan your hard drive with hirens boot cd or something of that sort. hope something here helps ya.

 

[krnmastersgt]

I'd suspect the hard drive as well, with those components it should be a rather fast system, no reason for it to be so slow then speed up all of a sudden. Did you remember to clear out the chipset/motherboard drivers before you tried swapping the board it's connected to? Try uninstalling all the drives and cleaning them out completely, then reinstall everything again.

 

[spinn]

do you happen to have an antivirus program running a system check at startup? that would slow everything down.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Download and run DPC Latency Checker.

 

[Ns1]

it was the freaking ide drivers.

the MB disk had 2 different IDE drivers, the 2nd one did the trick .

 

[SEAL62505]

What are your impressions of the board so far? I am very interested in getting this because it sounds like a cool feature to be able to shut off your pci-e graphics card to use the onboard to save power while not gaming.

 

[Denithor]

Originally posted by: Ns1
it was the freaking ide drivers.

the MB disk had 2 different IDE drivers, the 2nd one did the trick .

I was actually going to suggest looking at that, those nVidia boards often have funky IDE drivers.