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New system problems

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Epoch

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Hey everyone, just recently built a new system and it has some issues that are starting to annoy me. The computer specs are as follows - amd athlon 64 am2 5000+ brisbane, Asus M2N-E mobo, 2 gigs g-skill ddr2 pc2 6400, 800 watt sli psu, apevia aspire full tower and a pny geforce 8800gt pciex16. I have the latest updates and drivers installed, but for some reason loading a webpage takes up to 36 minutes.

If i connect a spare hard drive and copy a movie off of it it shows it will take 128+ minutes whereas my 2500 amd can do the same in less then 30min. Also it takes up to 25 minutes to open a file on the dekstop. It seems to be affecting internet speed - it plays online games just fine but when downloading a file i will start out at 700+ kb and wihtin a few seconds it will be down to 26 - 50kb. The one thing i had to do was to go into the bios and change the ram voltage from stock to 1.95 which the ram requires, but it had the lag issue before that. I'm stumped, because my old 2500 amd single core is faster then this new computer and a few years older.

Earlier this week i updated the bios, and it didnt change anything so i went back to the old version (bios revision 1202). The other issue is in the device manager it shows a yellow question mark next to a pci device, yet there is nothing in that slot (my sound card is in another slot and shows it working fine in device manager) if i uninstall the device and reboot, it will show it found it and ask to search for a driver but it never finds anything and goes right back to a yellow question mark beside it. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Not sure if this was the right area to put this, if not my apologies.

Edit: Yeah the chipset drivers are installed.
 
any ideas? i think ill end up going through the whole system, its just kinda lame why it runs so slow.
 
Its a good idea to resolve the yellow exclamation mark.
Most of the times I see this is due to an incomplete install of the motherboard drivers.
Try the original drivers that came with the motherboard, they may include a driver not present in some of the updated versions.
 
I'd strip everything out that isn't necessary for the system to run. I'd only keep one stick of ram inside and memtest it, then the other. I'd take out the sound card and use onboard, just so you can eliminate the sound card as the problem. I know when I had a Creative sound card in a while ago, the drivers were fussy and was messing with my internet speed and other things, for some reason. Once I took it out and used onboard, things ran smooth. Ended up scrapping the sound card, as I really can't tell the difference anymore.
 
Took out the ram one at a time and tested each one, they are both good. removed the sound card and nothing changed its still doing the same thing. Atm im tempted to just return everything and go back to my amd 2500.
 
Just a few thoughts...

What's going on in the task manager when you try to do something? Is the CPU usage going thru the roof?

What OS are you running and did you do a complete new install?

Are you getting errors in the system event viewer?
 
Old Hippie said:
Just a few thoughts...

What's going on in the task manager when you try to do something? Is the CPU usage going thru the roof?

What OS are you running and did you do a complete new install?

Are you getting errors in the system event viewer?
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In the task manager it will show cpu usage at 60% and up then lag for a few seconds and go back down but not finishing opening ie7 or opening a file on the desktop.Windows xp pro sp2, i was going to let sp3 install but there would be no point if it keeps doing this.

The only things with the system i didnt buy off of newegg are the vid card and the hard drive which came from best buy (they exchanged my old vid card for a 8800 gts pny and i grabbed a 320 gig sata wd while down there, the soundblaster creative soundcard came from my old system but even if i remove it nothing changes - the yellow question mark in device manager for pci device will stay there.)
 
Am I to conclude from your answer that you have a clean install of a verified XP pro SP2 disc and you have no errors in the system event viewer?
 
its a clean verified install of windows xp pro sp2. In the event viewer in the system treen its showing alot of warnings and errors where it shows the source as disk (when i exchanged the vid card at best buy and picked up a wd 320 gig hard drive down there they insisted on installing it; could it be just a bad hard drive?). In the application tree its showing errors for application hangs as well. Any other info you need?
 
Epoch said:
its a clean verified install of windows xp pro sp2. In the event viewer in the system treen its showing alot of warnings and errors where it shows the source as disk (when i exchanged the vid card at best buy and picked up a wd 320 gig hard drive down there they insisted on installing it; could it be just a bad hard drive?). In the application tree its showing errors for application hangs as well. Any other info you need?
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It could be anything. You let Best Buy work on your computer, and you want to troubleshoot what they did or didn't do?

This sounded like an OS problem and not a hardware problem. You've just confirmed it.

Get your disk and do a repair install. It will, probably, save all your info.
 
Once I had a Windows XP or ME install that wouldn't use more than 5-10kb/s of my internet connection. A fresh install fixed it and I have no clue what the problem was... but WinME is what it is and XP was new so...
 
if your hd came with a cd with any kind of installation or diagnostic software, run that. if not, try downloading it (i know - web pages dont load - get it from another pc). if the drive is ok, do a clean or repaor install. if you dont have much on your machine that you want to save, do a clean install. i didnt see an answer to the question about installing chipset drivers. the pci device that is flagged could very well be the problem, and nforce driver install could fix it.
 
Tried a repair and still the problem is there. I've been checking over asus forums and forums for the m2n-e board and it appears that asus hasnt released a stable bios for this board. im wondering if its caused by the bios. All they did at best buy was put the vid card and the hard drive in the tower, and manage to scratch the case /sigh they tried to tell me i had to leave the tower there overnight and then tried to take it in back, when i told them its not leaving my sight they installed the 2 in front of me on the counter.

I'm debating whether or not to reformat and start fresh, but the repair didn't seem to fix anything, it still takes as long.

The hard drive came with a cd but the only thing on it other then google toolbar, google destop, and picasa is Data lifeguard tools. I have a feeling its something to do with the best buy western digital hard drive, unless it reauires the data lifeguard tools.
 
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