Vista install running sloow on quad core

[ell]

Hi, is there some driver I should loading before a clean install to a amd quad core system?(phoenom 9150e) I'm installing vista home pre x64 to a new hard drive, the process took 2 hrs to install, and moves at a snails pace, no crashes just painfully slow, this thing has 5 gb ram and I already ran full diagnotics beforehand. Device manager looks fine, no ! I ran short smart test from the bios, clean weird, Something I missed?

[PCX]

Originally Posted by ell

Hi, is there some driver I should loading before a clean install to a amd quad core system?(phoenom 9150e) I'm installing vista home pre x64 to a new hard drive, the process took 2 hrs to install, and moves at a snails pace, no crashes just painfully slow, this thing has 5 gb ram and I already ran full diagnotics beforehand. Device manager looks fine, no ! I ran short smart test from the bios, clean weird, Something I missed?

Did you test the new hard drive to make sure it was not failing? It sounds like a Read Error on the hard drive. Make sure you do an extended SMART test.

[ell]

Originally Posted by PCX

Did you test the new hard drive to make sure it was not failing? It sounds like a Read Error on the hard drive. Make sure you do an extended SMART test.

yeah, I suppose I should do that, I just have a feeling its something in the bios settings. He has a upgraded pci video card, but thats enabled in the bios, there is no ahci setting, just pata (i disabled that) SATA and SAT 1+2 (hard drive is set for 1+2) . Its a 650 gb and I would lke to get it done today, hoping the run a full disk scan as last resort. The boot order in the bios is:
1. floppy (disabled)
2 blank
3. blank
4. dvd
5. new hard drive

[PCX]

Originally Posted by ell

yeah, I suppose I should do that, I just have a feeling its something in the bios settings. He has a upgraded pci video card, but thats enabled in the bios, there is no ahci setting, just pata (i disabled that) SATA and SAT 1+2 (hard drive is set for 1+2) and the floppy is set as first boot device, but it is disabled. Its a 650 gb and I would lke to get it done today, hoping the run a full disk scan as last resort.

You can always reset the bios to default settings or if that does not work, you can reflash / update the bios. As for the HDD test, I know you would like to have it done today, but you got to put your customer first. Just run the test, It will probably take about 2 to 3 hours for that size of a HDD. Otherwise, if you have another good known working HDD, you can try that while your testing the HDD and see if that makes a difference. Also, have you tried a live CD to see how it runs under linux?

[ell]

Originally Posted by PCX

You can always reset the bios to default settings or if that does not work, you can reflash / update the bios. As for the HDD test, I know you would like to have it done today, but you got to put your customer first. Just run the test, It will probably take about 2 to 3 hours for that size of a HDD. Otherwise, if you have another good known working HDD, you can try that while your testing the HDD and see if that makes a difference. Also, have you tried a live CD to see how it runs under linux?

I'm not going to sell her a bad hd, just want to rule out the quick fixes first, it does appear to be a bad drive, but I would expect a crash not just slowness, I'm going to give bios defaults a shot. It runs fine in a live cd.

[Cadishead Computers]

I've experienced similar situations, and it's been the hard drive.

Crashes do not always equate to drive failures. Slowness, when everything else is ok to me means time to break out the testing tools.

Better being safe and knowing the drives a ok or not. Rather than sending out the machine knowing that you've not quite done all the tests you could and the drive fails in a few weeks. How would that look to your client?

[ell]

Originally Posted by Cadishead Computers

I've experienced similar situations, and it's been the hard drive.

Crashes do not always equate to drive failures. Slowness, when everything else is ok to me means time to break out the testing tools.

Better being safe and knowing the drives a ok or not. Rather than sending out the machine knowing that you've not quite done all the tests you could and the drive fails in a few weeks. How would that look to your client?

Yeah, pretty sure its the drive now too, I had a similar indecent trying to install win 7 , I had to change bios from ahci to ata and that fixed it, I was hoping for a similar outcome, my customer is not going to be exciting about waiting around for another drive to arrive. I will post back if it clears the scans.

[16k_zx81]

Reset BIOS. Ditch hard disk. Reinstall windows on known good HDD.

Next.

[ell]

ok, so I've run overnight FULL system diagnostics, all is clean, now I've just found this link and I'm pretty sure this is my issue, what a pain http://www.geek.com/forums/topic/ext...running-system and ofcourse I can't find a hp oem vista home premium 64 bit iso. I have put the old drive back in and am trying to make a recovery disk set, its already failed once. Whats a good clone program for bad disks? I already tried acronis, fail.

[PCX]

Here is one other thought, I have a KVM switch with makes some computer (very very very few) run extremely slow, almost unusable. If you are using a KVM, try doing it without.