Windows Running Slow After Clean Install.

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Papercutt666

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I have just done a small upgrade to my computer, moving everything into a new case and buying a new 1 TB HDD witha copy of Windows 7 Pro. I have just moved house so I am not in possession of my drivers disk, but I have all the drivers from the Gigabyte website on my secondary HDD that I drag onto the desktop of the new HDD after I have installed windows 7. The only problem is, it is running so damn slow. I tried on a fairly new HDD (2 or 3 years old) and it was so slow I just decided to go and buy a new HDD, and after I installed windows 7 on that i got the fastest boot time on record at 47 seconds. Once I try to install the drivers, the computer then goes into snail mode, taking ten, twenty... thirty minutes to install anything. It often freezes as well. i have not yet seen a boot time that has equaled the 47 seconds of the first time I booted the Drive, I am (if i am lucky) getting 8-10 minutes, and if I am not 30 minutes. I have formatted and re installed windows on this drive multiple times over the course of the week, and I am just not sure where else to go.

Motherboard:Gigabyte GA-Z68P-DS3 socket 1155
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770
32gb Ram
AMD Radeon HD 7700 series Graphics card

the Drive i wish to install Windows 7 on
HDD 1: 1 TB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER162 ATA Device (SATA)
Old computer HDD with windows Home Premium
HDD2: 149GB Hitachi HDT721016SLA380 ATA Device (SATA)
 
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Darkbreeze
It sounds to me like a hardware issue unrelated to the installation of windows since it was occurring on the previous drive with the previous install.

I would first try going into the BIOS and select the option to load optimal bios settings. Save settings and reboot.

If there is no improvement go back into the BIOS and load fail safe default settings and attempt to reboot.

Next try removing all of the RAM modules but one, making sure to keep it in the slot intended for single module operation according to the motherboard or system manual. Attempt to boot. IF the problem remains then power down and try this with each individual module.

If none of the attempts is successful at increasing the speed to normal I would, assuming you...
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Darkbreeze

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It sounds to me like a hardware issue unrelated to the installation of windows since it was occurring on the previous drive with the previous install.

I would first try going into the BIOS and select the option to load optimal bios settings. Save settings and reboot.

If there is no improvement go back into the BIOS and load fail safe default settings and attempt to reboot.

Next try removing all of the RAM modules but one, making sure to keep it in the slot intended for single module operation according to the motherboard or system manual. Attempt to boot. IF the problem remains then power down and try this with each individual module.

If none of the attempts is successful at increasing the speed to normal I would, assuming you are able to use the onboard graphics from the motherboard, remove the graphics card, connect your monitor to the hdmi or vga port coming from the motherboard, enter bios and once again select fail safe settings and attempt to reboot. We can try further diagnosis if none of these helps.
 
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I was going to suggest checking that the drivers were installed correctly, but if it was happening with the last drive/install then hardware troubleshooting is the first step, as darkbreeze is suggesting.
 
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