Fresh install of XP incredibly sluggish

highlydebased

Yesterday I decided to reformat my PC and put XP on instead of Vista Ultimate....expecting mega performance increases. I'm running an Intel E6600 with 4gb of RAM (even tho 3 is only recignised for obvious reasons)

But I was rather disappointed. I am unable to open ANYTHING on the pc. It hangs and gets incredibly sluggish- The start menu takes around 5 minutes to open, I cannot open Firefox, and IE5 took around 15 minutes to load! I managed to get into system properties and increased the page file, which worked, but only lasted for last night.

Right now I'm on the verge of chucking the thing out the window in frustration. Is there anything I can try before I reformat again and put Vista back on it.

NullZer0

Anything to do with Sata/some other related harddisk driver?

Overheal

sounds like driver issues. not all drivers out there are going to work for both Vista and XP. While your computer might report the device is functioning properly it might not know any better. Go back and check with wherever you got the driver that it is XP compatible. Likely culprit is the BIOS driver.

GreenHell

Ya I be on board with that, you might need to update your chipset and gfx card drivers to see a performance increase.

Rambo

Neon-Circles wrote: »

Yesterday I decided to reformat my PC and put XP on instead of Vista Ultimate....expecting mega performance increases. I'm running an Intel E6600 with 4gb of RAM (even tho 3 is only recignised for obvious reasons)

But I was rather disappointed. I am unable to open ANYTHING on the pc. It hangs and gets incredibly sluggish- The start menu takes around 5 minutes to open, I cannot open Firefox, and IE5 took around 15 minutes to load! I managed to get into system properties and increased the page file, which worked, but only lasted for last night.

Right now I'm on the verge of chucking the thing out the window in frustration. Is there anything I can try before I reformat again and put Vista back on it.

cant see why you did that

just turn off UAC on vista and make sure it has SP1 vista installedl
it will be the same speed as xp which I found

DenMan

Definitely sounds like a driver issue. Have you been playing any mp3's recently ripped using a vista encoding software?, could be causing compatibility issues.

PogMoThoin

Did You install the chipset driver? its the first thing i'd suspect

ethernet

Your hard drive's controller is hardly running in PIO mode instead of DMA? I saw this on a machine recently. Tried coaxing it to use DMA but it kept reverting to PIO. A BIOS upgrade did the trick.

mukki

Neon-Circles wrote: »

Yesterday I decided to reformat my PC and put XP on instead of Vista Ultimate....expecting mega performance increases.

maybe xp is faster then vista, but.....


wait till you try windows 3.1

What chipset or motherboard do you have? I'd go with the PIO mode suspicion.