My computer was running fine, and then I turned it off so that I could clean some of the dust out.
As I'm trying to turn it back on, it has taken literally 40 minutes to get past the MSI splash screen. It takes a full 8 hours (no I am not kidding, nor exaggerating!) to get into Windows 7. And even then, everything is slow. Not like a normal P4/1GB ram (because I have a machine like that that is faster!) slow, but like low framerate slow. Same with the bootup. The huge MSI logo splash screen looks like I'm trying to download an image via dial up, and loads 1/5 of it at a time, over a period of nearly an hour. This process used to be so fast that I could hardly read it.
My motherboard http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P67A-C43.html
My CPU http://ark.intel.com/products/52210
My SSD http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-agility-3-sata-iii-2-5-ssd.html
My RAM http://www.gskill.com/products.php?index=428
My GPU http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/amd-radeon-hd-6000/hd-6870/Pages/amd-radeon-hd-6870-overview.aspx
What would cause something like this? I realize that my compressor may have unplugged something, but I can't think of anything that would cause such a slowdown.
As I'm trying to turn it back on, it has taken literally 40 minutes to get past the MSI splash screen. It takes a full 8 hours (no I am not kidding, nor exaggerating!) to get into Windows 7. And even then, everything is slow. Not like a normal P4/1GB ram (because I have a machine like that that is faster!) slow, but like low framerate slow. Same with the bootup. The huge MSI logo splash screen looks like I'm trying to download an image via dial up, and loads 1/5 of it at a time, over a period of nearly an hour. This process used to be so fast that I could hardly read it.
My motherboard http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P67A-C43.html
My CPU http://ark.intel.com/products/52210
My SSD http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-agility-3-sata-iii-2-5-ssd.html
My RAM http://www.gskill.com/products.php?index=428
My GPU http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/amd-radeon-hd-6000/hd-6870/Pages/amd-radeon-hd-6870-overview.aspx
What would cause something like this? I realize that my compressor may have unplugged something, but I can't think of anything that would cause such a slowdown.