Its sooooo slow

Defib

Defib

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New pc, new SATA drive, fresh install of XP

It takes so long to go thru the boot screen, loading user settings can take 5-10min

Click on an icon and it doesnt even react, takes desktop icons 15min to load

Could anyone help me??
 
quadcore, intel, 4gigs ram bla bla

Flip i dont wanna re-install, but i think its prob for the best
 
I had the same problem. It appears that the ram i put in wasn't compatible with the motherboard. Then I put in a pair of Kingstons... problem was solved.
Check in the Mobo's booklet. There is a list of compatible ram suppliers.
 
Hmm, don't really know about the slow boot up.

But with the slow loading of user settings and hanging when you try do something:
How old is your copy of XP? Have you run automatic updates? Did you start running updates but then restarted the PC before it finished downloading them?

The reason I ask is that a while ago XP had that awful bug where if you interrupted an update (among other things, but this was usually the cause in my case), svchost would take up 90%-100% of you CPU.
Which brings your whole system to a grinding halt.
Next time you boot up check in the processes to see if it's chewing up your CPU. They've since fixed it, but I know with my XP disc I need to update it to avoid that problem after a fresh install.

ps. Are you using XP 64bit? If you are using 32bit you won't get full use of your 4gb ram
 
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foozball3000 said:
I had the same problem. It appears that the ram i put in wasn't compatible with the motherboard. Then I put in a pair of Kingstons... problem was solved.
Check in the Mobo's booklet. There is a list of compatible ram suppliers.
Click to expand...

Dude, I got a friend who had the same too...so what makes ram non-compatible? Volts or what?

Would be great if I can help him resolve this
 
Are all your services started? Did you ever have this machines connected to a domain? Anything errors in the eventlog at startup?
 
Obvious questions but one never knows :)
Do you have onboard Video or PCI express video adapter and is the drivers installed and in the same breath have you installed all the motherboard drivers and with that dx9 ?
Maybe try doing scandisk to check for bad sectors .
If your boot up time is bad then disable boot fom cd
 
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