Windows takes 8 hours to install?

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My friend's AMD Athlon XP 1100+ on a K7s5a Pro Rev 5.0 mobo is taking forever to install windows. I threw in an extra 256 ram to make it 512 ram. I bought a new hard drive and it is still taking forever to install windows xp. Should I just tell him to get a new mobo and proc? OR should I just replace the proc?
 
I'd look at a different CD and many CD-ROM instead....Even a lowly P2 takes little more than 40 minutes to install, depending on how you format the hdd....
 
I do not think it is the cd or cd-rom. I am actually trying to reinstall windows because he got the BSOD and after a recovery it took 10 minutes or more just to load windows and continued to perform horribly.
 
Did you take a peek at the event viewer when windows finally loaded?
Also, any idea what the original bsod was?
 
Can't remember what the original bsod was. It is taking hours upon hours to try to reinstall windows. I have changed hard drives already. Memtest says the FSB is 99Mhz (DDR199). Walltime 18:40 with 8 Passes and 0 errors.
 
I think it's the motherboard if it's causing major delays in data transfer from CD to HD and since you tried a new HD, I'd say it's the motherboard (unless the CPU has been running with high temps or for too long and its starting to go bad).

A socket 939 motherboard with an Athlon 64 3000+ will bring him up to date.
 
Try a different cd rom drive. Although i don' think thats the problem. Make sure you have the hard drive hooked up right. (The pins) Double check about 80 pin cable or serial ata which ever one you use.

Also, it sounds like the mobo most likely.
 
It sounds like one or both drives may be running in PIO mode instead of DMA. If it's set in BIOS to run DMA and it's still running in PIO mode, then it's probably a sign that the drive is bad or dying. I just ran into this on a friend's system a couple of weeks ago.

Also, did you have a typo in the original post? There is no such thing as an XP1100+. Also, if it's an AthlonXP, it should be running on a 133 mhz bus, not 100. The RAM should also be running at 133.

 
memtest called it an athlon xp, but it just says Athlon 1100 when booting up. The computer used to work just fine. Then it wouldnt start up at all. Ran it in safemode and got the thing running, although it took windows foreever to load (10 - 15 minutes). Once windows loaded, I could not bare the painful slowness of waiting 5 minutes to pull up the program list from the start menu. Then I think I got the bsod, so I thought I would reinstall windows. I have checked everything and it has to be either the mobo or the proc. I have the Ultimate Boot CD but is there anything on it I can use to test the mobo?
 
wow. I replaced the ribbon from the mobo to the hd and it seems to have solved everything
 
SMP said:
wow. I replaced the ribbon from the mobo to the hd and it seems to have solved everything
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Sometimes its the simple things that can cause the most grief :)
 
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