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Question: I've noticed a strange phenomena that I was wondering if anyone has seen.
I'm building a new system and I've been having trouble loading Vista from a Samsung DVD player. I've had to load the DVD several times (so far unsuccessfully). It turns out I have a bad HDD, however that's not my question. I have noticed that the amount of time it takes to go from post to the step where you load drivers on the install DVD either happens fast (1 min) or really, really slow >10 min. Since it is the same system, I find this very weird. Sometimes its fast, sometimes slow.
At the same time, the bootloader got corrupted on my other computer (a P4 with IDE drive). I had to reload linux (it is dual boot ubuntu/XP) Both XP and ubuntu were insanely slow to load off the installer CD. I gave up on XP because it took so long, and Ubuntu took over an hour, vice the ~5 min it took to install originally.
Am I smoking something, or has anyone else noticed this type of thing. Extra credit: how do I make it go fast always
I'm building a new system and I've been having trouble loading Vista from a Samsung DVD player. I've had to load the DVD several times (so far unsuccessfully). It turns out I have a bad HDD, however that's not my question. I have noticed that the amount of time it takes to go from post to the step where you load drivers on the install DVD either happens fast (1 min) or really, really slow >10 min. Since it is the same system, I find this very weird. Sometimes its fast, sometimes slow.
At the same time, the bootloader got corrupted on my other computer (a P4 with IDE drive). I had to reload linux (it is dual boot ubuntu/XP) Both XP and ubuntu were insanely slow to load off the installer CD. I gave up on XP because it took so long, and Ubuntu took over an hour, vice the ~5 min it took to install originally.
Am I smoking something, or has anyone else noticed this type of thing. Extra credit: how do I make it go fast always