Hi, Upgraded recent to a new cpu, motherboard, ram and video card. I've bought windows 7 home prem and both on Vista and 7 it takes a long time to install (1 hour plus) and over 2 and a half minuites to boot. This is what i have running. Windows 7 Home Prem 64Bit version AMD Phenom X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz Socket AM3 8MB L3 Cache 4Gigs of Kingston 2gb Ddr3 1600mhz Hyperx Memory Cl9(9-9-9-27) Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P 790X Socket AM3 DDR3 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard MSI HD 4890 Cyclone 1GB GDDR5 DVI VGA HDMI Out PCI-E Graphics Card SATA 250GB HDD 120GB IDE HDD 570Watt Power Supply unit (this has the 4pin power to the motherboard but there is an 8 pin connector socket avail, manual says it support 4,6 and 8 pin power leads BIOS Setting are set to optimized settings and thats about it at the mo. The OS sees the correct CPU Speed and Memory I also have the latest video drivers installed for the ati Any help would be great, Thanks
have you benched your hard drives using hd tune? have you ran prime95 for stability issues? I would also try disabling ati poller service in services.msc alot of people report slow machines due to that service.
It could be your hard drive, if you have experience with computers listen to the hdd, it sounds to me like it is having trouble, check for clink-...clack sounds or if it is spinning-down. A bad hdd will cause both install and startups to be slow
