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Hey, I need some bloody help from the geniuses here at hardocp. I honestly cannot nail this problem down.
Specs
Motherboard: Biostar AM2 TForce 570 SLi
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 3800 2.0Ghz
RAM: OCZ Reaper DDR2 800mhz 2gbx1gb
HDD: Seagate Barracuda SATA 3Gbp/s 7200.10 (I think it's a perpendicular drive)
FDD: Generic Cheap POS.
ODD: NEC DVD-RAM Combo Writer blah blah blah.
PSU: Antec SmartPower 2.0 500 Watt (Modular cables are a pain in the ass)
GPU: Sapphire ATI X850XT 256MB
I currently upgraded the ram, motherboard, and cpu from 939 to AM2. The motherboard manufacturer is the same (Biostar) along with the CPU manufacturer. The only difference is the RAM manufacturer, which on my old parts was pqi and now is OCZ. All of these parts are twice as fast as my old parts (RAM and CPU)
The computer posts fine. I ran memtest for three hours on the ram and it found no errors (I know I should do a longer run) everything seems to be working beautiful except when I come to installing good ol' Windows. I have tried my original XP Pro disk, my contest won Vista Premium, and backups of my pro disk. All of these produce the same following problem: complete and utter sluggish horseshit.
It took my Windows XP disk 9 hours to install of which I KNOW cannot be normal because I use to reinstall Windows XP in a hour to maybe a bit over that, tops.
With that being said, once Windows was installed everything is extremely sluggish and non-responsive, in the task manager CPU time is being gobbled up by programs that aren't really there. I can barely even get into HDDs or partitions.
Now the strange things I will list regarding this problem.
SNAFU: When installing Windows every little step takes an extremely long time. The normally split second "Reading/Processing Information File" takes MINUTES!
SNAFU2: My DVD Drive when in the Setup stage of installing Windows shuffles and copies files over in little spurts and in longer but slightly rarer very long (2 hour+) spurts of files. It got stuck at 30% 40% and 52% for VERY long times.
SNAFU3: When in the GUI portion of the Setup the 39 minutes actually took 5 hours.
SNAFU4: When Windows goes to load it is extremely slow, and the little green bars hang several times and stutter.
SNAFU5: Various other things I have forgotten.
Anyway, the things I hope I have eliminated from the equation are my DVD drive and disks, I have tried three different DVD/CD rom drives and they all produce similar results, I have tested the RAM throughly (well not quite but fuck it) and have tried it in all four slots on my motherboard. All temperatures are normal, voltages are normal, everything is normal. I have it running barebones right now with just the video card, HDD, and one stick of ram in it. It is also not my jumpers they are have been tried on all configurations. RAID is disabled I only have one HDD.
However, I may know what is causing this problem. It could be the HDD going south (which I doubt but I can't test that) or it could be how the motherboard sets devices for what type of transfer function it uses PIO and UDMA. As far as I know the Optical drives which are on the mysterious (ATA) IDE 0 and IDE 1 channels are on PIO Auto (MB settings) and the SATA are on UDMA. I could be completely wrong of course but I'm quite positive. I
Maybe this could all be solved by installing the chipset drivers, not to mention it would probably take hours to complete at the current rate.Also considering how fast and speedy Windows is with a fresh install on the rest of my machines this is proving to be a very, very vexing problem. If anyone has a an idea on how to fix this or has had this happen to them before, I appreciate the help. Thank you for your time guys, and I'm sorry I have to bother you guys with my problems.
Specs
Motherboard: Biostar AM2 TForce 570 SLi
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 3800 2.0Ghz
RAM: OCZ Reaper DDR2 800mhz 2gbx1gb
HDD: Seagate Barracuda SATA 3Gbp/s 7200.10 (I think it's a perpendicular drive)
FDD: Generic Cheap POS.
ODD: NEC DVD-RAM Combo Writer blah blah blah.
PSU: Antec SmartPower 2.0 500 Watt (Modular cables are a pain in the ass)
GPU: Sapphire ATI X850XT 256MB
I currently upgraded the ram, motherboard, and cpu from 939 to AM2. The motherboard manufacturer is the same (Biostar) along with the CPU manufacturer. The only difference is the RAM manufacturer, which on my old parts was pqi and now is OCZ. All of these parts are twice as fast as my old parts (RAM and CPU)
The computer posts fine. I ran memtest for three hours on the ram and it found no errors (I know I should do a longer run) everything seems to be working beautiful except when I come to installing good ol' Windows. I have tried my original XP Pro disk, my contest won Vista Premium, and backups of my pro disk. All of these produce the same following problem: complete and utter sluggish horseshit.
It took my Windows XP disk 9 hours to install of which I KNOW cannot be normal because I use to reinstall Windows XP in a hour to maybe a bit over that, tops.
With that being said, once Windows was installed everything is extremely sluggish and non-responsive, in the task manager CPU time is being gobbled up by programs that aren't really there. I can barely even get into HDDs or partitions.
Now the strange things I will list regarding this problem.
SNAFU: When installing Windows every little step takes an extremely long time. The normally split second "Reading/Processing Information File" takes MINUTES!
SNAFU2: My DVD Drive when in the Setup stage of installing Windows shuffles and copies files over in little spurts and in longer but slightly rarer very long (2 hour+) spurts of files. It got stuck at 30% 40% and 52% for VERY long times.
SNAFU3: When in the GUI portion of the Setup the 39 minutes actually took 5 hours.
SNAFU4: When Windows goes to load it is extremely slow, and the little green bars hang several times and stutter.
SNAFU5: Various other things I have forgotten.
Anyway, the things I hope I have eliminated from the equation are my DVD drive and disks, I have tried three different DVD/CD rom drives and they all produce similar results, I have tested the RAM throughly (well not quite but fuck it) and have tried it in all four slots on my motherboard. All temperatures are normal, voltages are normal, everything is normal. I have it running barebones right now with just the video card, HDD, and one stick of ram in it. It is also not my jumpers they are have been tried on all configurations. RAID is disabled I only have one HDD.
However, I may know what is causing this problem. It could be the HDD going south (which I doubt but I can't test that) or it could be how the motherboard sets devices for what type of transfer function it uses PIO and UDMA. As far as I know the Optical drives which are on the mysterious (ATA) IDE 0 and IDE 1 channels are on PIO Auto (MB settings) and the SATA are on UDMA. I could be completely wrong of course but I'm quite positive. I
Maybe this could all be solved by installing the chipset drivers, not to mention it would probably take hours to complete at the current rate.Also considering how fast and speedy Windows is with a fresh install on the rest of my machines this is proving to be a very, very vexing problem. If anyone has a an idea on how to fix this or has had this happen to them before, I appreciate the help. Thank you for your time guys, and I'm sorry I have to bother you guys with my problems.
But I assume that this succesfully booted correct? I really have no idea, I have never used Linux before.