new built pc very slow

[caleyman]

can anyone help. just built a new pc specs are

pc chips M810L mobo with athlon 1800xp cpu
256 mb sdram, sound, and graphics all onboard. also installed 40gb hard drive, and 52x cdrw. did a clean install of windows xp which took about 12 hours to install and now the pc takes about 5 minutes to boot up and about 30 secs to a minute to open a program.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to help me?

Thanks.

 

[franklin97355]

I'd take it apart and put just the minimum together on the bench. Then get diagnostic software and test it as you add back pieces. If it is still slow send it back.

 

[paparazi]

Possible incorrect master slave jumper configuration?
Modem riser card fault?
Damaged ultra IDE cable to hard drive?
Try seperate cables for CDRW and Hard drive, make sure both are set to master and HD is fine 80core Ultra cable.
Take out all unecessary PCI cards, run with bare minimum.
Make sure in the bios both memory and CPU speeds are set to 133/133.
Did you install mainboard drivers imediately after the clean XP install? (you should have)
Martin

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[paparazi]

Just thought!
What CPU temps are you getting in the bios? should be in the mid 40'c C for an XP1800+.
Did you apply thermal paste? did the heatsink have a thermal pad? did you remove the protective tape covering the pad? Have you fitted the heatsink on the correct way around? recess in the base positioned over the socket A writing on the CPU socket.
Martin

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[caleyman]

Hi,

the mobo came with the cpu onboard out the box, so the cpu, heatsink and fan were already in place. i'll check the temps in the bios.

Thanks

 

[BionicJohn]

Also check you have "optimum settings" in your BIOS, not "fail-safe" or similar.

Iechyd da! John
00:58 19/09/2003 BST

 

[ceh4702]

Check to see in the BIOS if the Cache is turned on for the CPU and other obvious things like that.

If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[Tarwn]

As somone mentined above, check the settings in BIOS to make sure it isn't in fail-safe or something similar. Many boards will drop the clock speed on the processor down to 100Mhz when you first load or if it runs into problems loading. The problem with this is that an 1800 runs with an 11.5 multiplier, so at 100Mhz your running a 1.15Ghz processor. The correct Clock speed for the 1800 is 133, which results in 1.53Ghz.

-Tarwn

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