Hi everyone - hope someone can help.
I just built a new system with the following:
Biostar K8M800 Micro AM2 motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual core processor
ATI Radeon X1650 Pro
PNY Optima DDR Memory (2 x 1 gig chips)
Western Digital Caviar SE 320 gig EIDE HD 7200/8MB/ATA100
Soundblaster Audigy SE
Standard 48x CDRom (first tried Liteon DVD RW but Windows wouldn't install so I changed it for now)
450W power supply
Acer monitor
Everything went together ok but when I tried to install windows xp using the Liteon drive I kept getting error messages so I pulled that and put an old 48x standard CDRom in and windows installed ok.
System booted but took forever to load - about 7-8 minutes. I figured ok, it's a new install - may be slow the first time. But the system continues to run incredibly slow. Still takes that long to boot and once it's loaded, it runs at about the speed of a 300 mhz system both in general and on the internet (cable modem connection that normally is very fast). I tried downloading updates at Windows thinking that might help but it did not. There were 79 updates and Microsoft's site said it would take about 1 1/2 hours on a cable modem - it took more than 7 hours to download and install.
I also am unable to install the video card drivers. I get a general error message that just says there's a problem and try to install a standard VGA driver first but that does nothing. (I was able to install the drivers for the APG from the motherboard disk with no problem).
Anyone have any ideas where to start?
Gail
I just built a new system with the following:
Biostar K8M800 Micro AM2 motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual core processor
ATI Radeon X1650 Pro
PNY Optima DDR Memory (2 x 1 gig chips)
Western Digital Caviar SE 320 gig EIDE HD 7200/8MB/ATA100
Soundblaster Audigy SE
Standard 48x CDRom (first tried Liteon DVD RW but Windows wouldn't install so I changed it for now)
450W power supply
Acer monitor
Everything went together ok but when I tried to install windows xp using the Liteon drive I kept getting error messages so I pulled that and put an old 48x standard CDRom in and windows installed ok.
System booted but took forever to load - about 7-8 minutes. I figured ok, it's a new install - may be slow the first time. But the system continues to run incredibly slow. Still takes that long to boot and once it's loaded, it runs at about the speed of a 300 mhz system both in general and on the internet (cable modem connection that normally is very fast). I tried downloading updates at Windows thinking that might help but it did not. There were 79 updates and Microsoft's site said it would take about 1 1/2 hours on a cable modem - it took more than 7 hours to download and install.
I also am unable to install the video card drivers. I get a general error message that just says there's a problem and try to install a standard VGA driver first but that does nothing. (I was able to install the drivers for the APG from the motherboard disk with no problem).
Anyone have any ideas where to start?
Gail