WIN 7 PC too slow, clean install after crash

[monocyte]

My Win 7 PC was working fine till few days ago, when it failed to revive from sleep. I had to force shut. But then it failed to boot. I tried to repair using Win 7 DVD, but WIN 7 DVD could NOT fix the the problem. So, I clean installed WIn 7 on a new hard disk. PC is still at original configuration (no updates, no additional drivers installed). It still takes about 5 minutes to boot. I get prolonged black screens before and after login screen. Once booted, responses are very sluggish.

I am suspecting some hardware problem. Could it be some defect in the memory? I would highly appreciate if you guys can help me with this. Thanks.

 

[Puppies04]

Your HDD could be failing, try a program like seagate seatools and see what happens.

 

[jolancer]

I think he said He used a New HDD? so probably not the drive...

just try some basic testing first, if nothing turns up, then post more detailed system specs.

1) reset your CMOS - Either go into BIOS and Load Fail Safe Defaults, or Unplug pc and remove the CMOS Battery for a few minuets and plug back in.

2) remove basically everything from your computer... all extra Ram, All Optical drives, Periferals, PCI cards, if your board has Onboard GFX use that instead.

3) If booting with system barebones didnt affect also lastly try swapping the ram stick for one you removed, and use the 2nd bank of Dimm slots instead of the First.

4) might as well try a different SATA port while your at it also, if all else is failing. I assume ur on SATA?

that will pritty much rule out everything but your barebone hardware