System slow

[a911master]

my system is slow on start up and about 2 days and then everything to be good to go does any body know why and my hard drive seems to run constantly could it just be a bad drive and causing all my problem i am running with all the default setting

 

[Jonathan_King]

Hello,

I am sorry, I cannot quite understand your problem. Do you know if your anti-virus could be doing a scan?

Thanks,
~JK

 

[a911master]

no anti virus installed yet

 

[whs]

and about 2 days and then everything to be good to go

Please explain what you mean by that.

 

[a911master]

Just running super slow i just swiched to a diffrent hard drive it seems to be better but still seems very slow for what i have

 

[Orpheous]

What's the brand and model of the slow hard drive?
Is it IDE or SATA?

 

[a911master]

ide western digital not sure of the model but it only had 8mb cache and 7200 rpm the new on is a seagate 16mb cache not much better and the system is still super slow i used both of these hard drives in my old rig running win 7 64 ultimate but only had 4 gigs ram and core 2 duo with biostar p4m900 mobo and it was alot faster it is making me sick that i upgraded the cpu mobo and ram and it is slower

 

[Orpheous]

Have you changed or tried changing the IDE cable, ensuring that it's an 80pin not 40pin IDE?
Also, if there's another IDE device (eg. CD/DVD drive) connected to the slave connector, try removing it. Make sure the Hard drive is connected to the master connector too. Most newer motherboards are only coming out with 1 IDE connector, making it difficult to use an IDE CD/DVD drive and an IDE hard drive on the same cable due to standard tower internal drive bracket placement, but it can make a difference.

 

[a911master]

T this ide cable came with the mobo and no other devices connected at all will that make a diffrence as to what connector to use if the black is for master and grey is for slave

 

[Orpheous]

If it's the only device connected.... to be honest, I'm not sure.
You should, however, make sure the jumper on the back of the drive is set to master, and I'd be inclined to connect it to the black connector anyway.
Try another cable if there's no change

 

[a911master]

i will do this right now and let you guys Know what the outcome is

 

[a911master]

i tried that it really didnt make any difference. the processor runs super hard to perfom simple task it dosent make any sense to me does any body have any ideas i have reinstalled win 7 64 bit 3 times all clean installs on 2 different hard drives.

 

[Orpheous]

Have you checked you WEI? click start orb - type performance info - hit enter and run or rerun the assessment

 

[TaraSWinTeam]

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Cheers,
Tara
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[Frostmourne]

Take out all but one stick of RAM, then reboot. See if that might fix it, then run Memtest86+ for at least one pass. Then update all your drivers and put in a new GPU - that one is heavily outdated.

 

[a911master]

so replace my video card i have ran memtest86+ on all the ram together and as singles they all test ok it does get better with less ram installed but i can not figure out why all the ram test good

 

[Frostmourne]

so replace my video card i have ran memtest86+ on all the ram together and as singles they all test ok it does get better with less ram installed but i can not figure out why all the ram test good

Yes, a 5670 is enough for light gaming and requires no external power connections - is your RAM kit matched or separate sticks?

 

[a911master]

matched

 

[a911master]

i am upgrading the video card 5670 can you post a link for me

 

[a911master]

ok i re ran memtest86+ 2 of my sticks are 6846 Mb\s and the other 2 are higher could this be the problem