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Windows 7: Clean install, way too slow.
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25 Mar 2010
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Clean install, way too slow.
A clean install seems to take hours, the first of which is just getting the software to load up.
Once it DOES finally finish installing, windows runs slow, very slow. Applications take two minutes to load. Once explorer loads, it takes two minutes to switch tabs.
Installing firefox takes forever, and IT runs slow.
Getting Ubuntu 9.10 loaded and working took 25 minutes. Works liquid smooth.
windows 7 home premium.
I'm running:
9850 AMD quad-core processer.
Biostar tf560 a2+ motherboard.
4 GB ram. Not sure on the vendor.
9800 gt video card. not sure on the vendor. | My System Specs |
| System Manufacturer/Model Number I built it.
OS windows 7/ ubuntu 9.10
CPU AMD 9850
Motherboard Biostar tf560 a2+
Memory 4 GB
Graphics Card 9800gt nvidia
Sound Card on-board
Monitor(s) Displays LG L194WT
Screen Resolution 1440 X 900
Hard Drives Western digital WD50000AAKS-7
500 GB. SATA
Other Info Optiarc DVD RW AD-7190A
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25 Mar 2010
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Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Steve Ballmer Signature Edition So Cal (I.E.) |
Quote: Originally Posted by Morichalion  A clean install seems to take hours, the first of which is just getting the software to load up.
Once it DOES finally finish installing, windows runs slow, very slow. Applications take two minutes to load. Once explorer loads, it takes two minutes to switch tabs.
Installing firefox takes forever, and IT runs slow.
Getting Ubuntu 9.10 loaded and working took 25 minutes. Works liquid smooth.
windows 7 home premium.
I'm running:
9850 AMD quad-core processer.
Biostar tf560 a2+ motherboard.
4 GB ram. Not sure on the vendor.
9800 gt video card. not sure on the vendor. Welcome to the forums Morichalion!
That's a nice rig... shouldn't take more than an hour. What HDD do you have (size, model, etc), and if SATA... how do you have SATA setup on BIOS?
Please complete your system specs in CP when you get a chance. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Homebrew PC - "Alpha_Dawg"
OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Steve Ballmer Signature Edition
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad - Q9550 - 2.83GHz stock - OC'd to 3.6GHz
Motherboard Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
Memory 4GB DDR2 800MHz (PC6400) OCZ Reaper
Graphics Card Nvidia GE Force 8800 GTS
Sound Card Asus Xonar DX
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster 2333HD
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
Keyboard MS Natural Wireless KB
Mouse MS Wireless Mouse
PSU PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750
Case Gigabyte 3D Aurora
Cooling Case is Air - 5ea. 120mm fans (mix of Arctic and Xigmatec)
Hard Drives WD Caviar Black 750GB - 7200RPM - 32MB cache
WD Caviar Green 1.5TB - 5400RPM - 64MB cache
WD Caviar Green 2.0TB - 5400RPM - 64MB cache
Internet Speed 50 mbps down/5 mbps up
Other Info AVerMedia - AVerTVHD G2 Dual Tuner Card
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25 Mar 2010
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#3 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 ®™ West Yorkshire |
From start to finish clean installing Windows 7 shouldn't be much more than 50 minutes, if that, are you sure you've not upgraded? | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Sony Vaio FZ21Z
OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 ®™
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo (2.2 GHz)
Motherboard Sony (Intel Chipset)
Memory 2x 2GB Corsair (667 MHz)
Graphics Card NVIDIA 8600M GS (256MB)
Sound Card Sigmatel
Monitor(s) Displays 15.4" TFT X-Black
Screen Resolution 1280x800
Mouse Logitech Anywhere MX
Hard Drives Western Digital 300GB Scorpio Black (7200rpm)
Internet Speed Sky 5MB
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25 Mar 2010
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Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Steve Ballmer Signature Edition So Cal (I.E.) |
Quote: Originally Posted by FZ21Z From start to finish clean installing Windows 7 shouldn't be much more than 50 minutes, if that, are you sure you've not upgraded? True, but the bigger the HDD, the longer the format time! OP may have 3TB!!! LOL! | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Homebrew PC - "Alpha_Dawg"
OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Steve Ballmer Signature Edition
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad - Q9550 - 2.83GHz stock - OC'd to 3.6GHz
Motherboard Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
Memory 4GB DDR2 800MHz (PC6400) OCZ Reaper
Graphics Card Nvidia GE Force 8800 GTS
Sound Card Asus Xonar DX
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster 2333HD
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
Keyboard MS Natural Wireless KB
Mouse MS Wireless Mouse
PSU PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750
Case Gigabyte 3D Aurora
Cooling Case is Air - 5ea. 120mm fans (mix of Arctic and Xigmatec)
Hard Drives WD Caviar Black 750GB - 7200RPM - 32MB cache
WD Caviar Green 1.5TB - 5400RPM - 64MB cache
WD Caviar Green 2.0TB - 5400RPM - 64MB cache
Internet Speed 50 mbps down/5 mbps up
Other Info AVerMedia - AVerTVHD G2 Dual Tuner Card
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25 Mar 2010
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Western digital WD50000AAKS-7
500 GB. SATA.
I only have the one hard disk, and am just running with the default settings for SATA. Is there something specific I should be looking for? | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number I built it.
OS windows 7/ ubuntu 9.10
CPU AMD 9850
Motherboard Biostar tf560 a2+
Memory 4 GB
Graphics Card 9800gt nvidia
Sound Card on-board
Monitor(s) Displays LG L194WT
Screen Resolution 1440 X 900
Hard Drives Western digital WD50000AAKS-7
500 GB. SATA
Other Info Optiarc DVD RW AD-7190A
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25 Mar 2010
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And I was attempting a clean install. The first time I ran it, I deleted all the partitions on the drive, and set up a ~1000 meg partition for windows, since I was planning on dual-booting with Ubuntu. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number I built it.
OS windows 7/ ubuntu 9.10
CPU AMD 9850
Motherboard Biostar tf560 a2+
Memory 4 GB
Graphics Card 9800gt nvidia
Sound Card on-board
Monitor(s) Displays LG L194WT
Screen Resolution 1440 X 900
Hard Drives Western digital WD50000AAKS-7
500 GB. SATA
Other Info Optiarc DVD RW AD-7190A
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25 Mar 2010
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Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Steve Ballmer Signature Edition So Cal (I.E.) |
Quote: Originally Posted by Morichalion And I was attempting a clean install. The first time I ran it, I deleted all the partitions on the drive, and set up a ~1000 meg partition for windows, since I was planning on dual-booting with Ubuntu. Depending on who you ask, most people suggest a partition size of 20-30GB for Windows 7!
Your 1000MB partition is waaaaay to small! Remember 1000MB = 1GB approx! So you want a 20000-30000MB partition... This may be your whole issue! | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Homebrew PC - "Alpha_Dawg"
OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Steve Ballmer Signature Edition
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad - Q9550 - 2.83GHz stock - OC'd to 3.6GHz
Motherboard Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
Memory 4GB DDR2 800MHz (PC6400) OCZ Reaper
Graphics Card Nvidia GE Force 8800 GTS
Sound Card Asus Xonar DX
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster 2333HD
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
Keyboard MS Natural Wireless KB
Mouse MS Wireless Mouse
PSU PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750
Case Gigabyte 3D Aurora
Cooling Case is Air - 5ea. 120mm fans (mix of Arctic and Xigmatec)
Hard Drives WD Caviar Black 750GB - 7200RPM - 32MB cache
WD Caviar Green 1.5TB - 5400RPM - 64MB cache
WD Caviar Green 2.0TB - 5400RPM - 64MB cache
Internet Speed 50 mbps down/5 mbps up
Other Info AVerMedia - AVerTVHD G2 Dual Tuner Card
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25 Mar 2010
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#8 | |
Windows 7 x64 finally! North Carolina |
I am surprised it even installed in 1G. Maybe it is 10G, which is still too little
Can you post a picture of your disk management screen, Morichalion? | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Wally, Innc.
OS Windows 7 x64 finally!
CPU AMD Athlon II X2 240
Motherboard Biostar TA790GX XE
Memory OCZ Platinum 4GB DDR2 1066 (will not work past 800MHz)
Graphics Card MSI R4670-MD1G Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit GDDR3
Sound Card ATI High Definition Audio Device Realtek ALC888
Monitor(s) Displays HP w19e
Screen Resolution 1440x900
Keyboard wired, many keys
Mouse HP wireless, 2 buttons, 1 wheel
PSU Athena Power Micro ATX 400W
Case HEC 6T 6T10BB Black MicroATX Mini Tower
Cooling stock
Hard Drives Western Digital Caviar Green WD5000AADS 500GB SATA
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA
Internet Speed DSL 2Mb (recently getting 1.65M!)
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25 Mar 2010
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Typo, 100 gig. sorry 'bout that, folks. I'mmma kinda stupid today, missed the last coupla zeroes. I'll post the disk management screen as soon as I can get one. see ya in a bit. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number I built it.
OS windows 7/ ubuntu 9.10
CPU AMD 9850
Motherboard Biostar tf560 a2+
Memory 4 GB
Graphics Card 9800gt nvidia
Sound Card on-board
Monitor(s) Displays LG L194WT
Screen Resolution 1440 X 900
Hard Drives Western digital WD50000AAKS-7
500 GB. SATA
Other Info Optiarc DVD RW AD-7190A
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25 Mar 2010
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#10 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Steve Ballmer Signature Edition So Cal (I.E.) |
Quote: Originally Posted by Morichalion Typo, 100 gig. sorry 'bout that, folks. I'mmma kinda stupid today, missed the last coupla zeroes. I'll post the disk management screen as soon as I can get one. see ya in a bit. So not 1,000MB, 100GB = 100,000 MB <--roughly! | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Homebrew PC - "Alpha_Dawg"
OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Steve Ballmer Signature Edition
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad - Q9550 - 2.83GHz stock - OC'd to 3.6GHz
Motherboard Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
Memory 4GB DDR2 800MHz (PC6400) OCZ Reaper
Graphics Card Nvidia GE Force 8800 GTS
Sound Card Asus Xonar DX
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster 2333HD
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
Keyboard MS Natural Wireless KB
Mouse MS Wireless Mouse
PSU PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750
Case Gigabyte 3D Aurora
Cooling Case is Air - 5ea. 120mm fans (mix of Arctic and Xigmatec)
Hard Drives WD Caviar Black 750GB - 7200RPM - 32MB cache
WD Caviar Green 1.5TB - 5400RPM - 64MB cache
WD Caviar Green 2.0TB - 5400RPM - 64MB cache
Internet Speed 50 mbps down/5 mbps up
Other Info AVerMedia - AVerTVHD G2 Dual Tuner Card
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