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May 14^th, 2009 at 2:44pm

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So I finally managed to re-install XP on one of the HDDs via the USB CD/ROM... can't access anything on that drive other than the new partition, but I wasn't too worried about most of that data. Happily, the other drive shows up, and so far all the stuff I wanted o keep looks OK (whew!).
But there's a problem... even with the performance bumped up in BIOS, it is ssssllloooowww. Really slow.The mobo looks OK: no blown o nearly-blown caps, and it's pretty clean right now. I don't recall ever tweaking voltages, FSB, etc. for the original install, but maybetha's the problem.
Anyone have any suggestions?

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Reply #1 - May 14^th, 2009 at 7:02pm

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I assume you installed all the drivers for this? Windows does not install devices with current drivers.. just generics

Chipset, video, possibly IDE/SATA, NIC, etc

You can go to Asus or where ever the MB is from and in their download section they will have the latest (on their records) for it

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Reply #2 - May 14^th, 2009 at 7:35pm

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NickN wrote on May 14^th, 2009 at 7:02pm:

Should have mentioned that I already installed the appropriate drivers (as far as I know)... thanks anyway. Grin

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Reply #3 - May 15^th, 2009 at 6:29pm

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Just checkin what I did not see Grin

Well, baring a device hogging the buss or even a possible bad hard drive involved I would start looking at the motherboard at that point

If you did get a bug and its payload hit the base of the hard drive in its BOOT BLOCK area it can still be there causing trouble. The only way to eliminate that is wipe the drive with zeros and reinstall Windows after getting the backups off of it you want

When Windows is installed run the FULL NTFS FORMAT on the entire drive which will run DSKCHK at the same time.. (slower but eliminates bad spots on the disk)

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Reply #4 - May 20^th, 2009 at 4:01pm

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What mobo is it?

Nforce4 is notoriously slow on SATA when using nvidia drivers in XP... my nforce4 machine takes over a minute to get into an useable state after powerup (with SQL sever and some other devtools effectively killing startup performance)

Russian planes: IL-76 (all standard length ones), Tu-154 and Il-62, Tu-134 and An-24RV&&&&AI flightplans and repaints can be found here

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